Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 05, 2019 - June 08, 2019
Push carts have been widely used in various areas such as factories, markets and buildings around the world. However, we are frequently faced with the difficult situation not to move the push cart because of the heavy load mounted on its cart. For this reason, many assisting devices to physically aid the cart operator have been developed, and some of them have also been commercialized. On the other hand, these former assisting devices have troublesomeness of manual switching of with/without assisting or direct furnishing and unfurnishing, and it is additionally difficult for most former devices to assist the turning motion of the push cart. Here we propose a new assisting system for turning a push cart without manual troublesomeness.
