Research and Development of the Lower Limbs Orthosis Intelligently Controlled by Shear-Type Compact MR Brake —1st Report: Development of Shear Type Compact MR Brake and Controllable Ankle-Foot Orthosis with the MR Brake—

Junji Furusho; Takehito Kikuchi; Shoji Morimoto; Miwa Tokuda; Chengqiu Li; Yasunori Hashimoto; Akio Nakagawa; Yasushi Akazawa

doi:10.7210/jrsj.25.867

Research and Development of the Lower Limbs Orthosis Intelligently Controlled by Shear-Type Compact MR Brake

—1st Report: Development of Shear Type Compact MR Brake and Controllable Ankle-Foot Orthosis with the MR Brake—

Junji Furusho, Takehito Kikuchi, Shoji Morimoto, Miwa Tokuda, Chengqiu Li, Yasunori Hashimoto, Akio Nakagawa, Yasushi Akazawa

Author information

Keywords: Orthosis, Controllable Ankle-Foot Orthosis, Compact MR Brake, MR Fluid, Rehabilitation

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

2007 Volume 25 Issue 6 Pages 867-873

DOI https://doi.org/10.7210/jrsj.25.867

Details

Abstract

MR fluid (Magneto-Rheological fluid) is a kind of functional fluid. In this study, we developed Shear-type Compact MR Brake (SCMR-Brake) applying shear mode of MR brake. To employ multi-layered and minute-gap structure, we developed SCMR-Brakes. By using this brake on the part of ankle torque control unit, we developed Controllable Ankle-Foot nrthosis.

Corresponding author

Register with J-STAGE for free!