Abstract
Recent years, the assist-equipment for the purpose of the living support and nursing care have been developed. That equipment usually used rubber actuators. In conventional researches, pneumatic plastic-film soft actuators are proposed. It is considered that pneumatic plastic-film soft actuator is effective to use for assist-equipment from advantages which are lightweight, flexibility and driving at low pressure. However, this actuator does not have sufficient characteristics in order to use for the assist-equipment. This paper focused on improvement of the responsiveness as one method of solving this problem. The principle of the micro-valve structure for plastic-film soft actuator is proposed, and basic experiment using the actuator is described.
