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For the physically impaired, it can be said that assistive devices are an important part of their body. Therefore, assistive devices are required to be user friendly, safe, and rehable for the person who uses them. As well, there are variety of demands including good appearance, no noise, and ease of wearing it. Shpae memory alloy's super-elastic property and shape memory property are beneficial in fitting to the human body movement. They have been already applied to various products including catheters, stents, and intramedullary nails, and are expected to be widely utilized for assistive devices for the physically impaired. Focusing on assistive devices for the hand, which especially delicate movement is required by the human body, we challenged for development of a power-assested glove using shape-memory alloy and successfully created a more silent, compact and lightweight device compared to conventional products. This device can be operated by heating the shape-memory alloy electrically. Also, adopting electric control as the method of controlling allows the device to be controlled by acomputer.
