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Title:
SAFETY AGAINST OVERTURNING FOR WALKING TRAINING AND WALKING SUPPORT DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2009195636
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To surely support the body of a walking trainee who is in need of training the walking and, when the walking trainee is about to lose a balance of the body in training, support the body and prevent the overturn without giving a damage to the walking trainee.

This safety against overturning is provided in a walking support device, which has a support member lifting and supporting the trainee to a walking support device body for making the walking trainee train the walking and which prevents the overturn of the walking trainee, and includes a displacement part provided in the walking support device body side and, when the support member is connected, displaced along with the movement of the walking trainee, a brake applying a braking force to the support member, a detection part detecting or estimating collapse of the walking trainee's body based on the displacement state of the displacement part, and a braking force control part which controls the braking force applied from the brake to the support member based on the detection result of the detection part.


Inventors:
KAI YOSHIHIRO
Application Number:
JP2008043541A
Publication Date:
September 03, 2009
Filing Date:
February 25, 2008
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
UNIV TOKAI
International Classes:
A61H3/00
Domestic Patent References:
JP2005080856A2005-03-31
JP2003047635A2003-02-18
JP2005342306A2005-12-15
JP2004329278A2004-11-25
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yoshiyuki Kawaguchi
Hidemi Matsukura
Mayuko Wakuda
Tsutomu Toyama
Katsuhiko Imahori