装着者の脚間運動の伝達・蓄積を実現する無動力装着型歩行支援機器

抄録

In aged society, it has been a serious problem that demand of the assistive technology has been complicated. Although the type and strategy of the assistive technology for gait motion has been expanded, the assistive technology which suits for hemiplegia patients in their daily life has some troubles. As one of the solutions for this problem, we have proposed a walking assist system by using the transmission of the motion energy from unaffected hip joint of the user without external power sources. The key component of the proposed mechanism is energy charge from the unaffected side and use it as the assist torque for the affected side at the suitable timing. In this paper, the design of the proposed mechanism which consists of the energy charge and assist system has been reported. In addition, wearability of the proposed mechanism for subject people have also considered through the questionnaire results collected in our previous experiments.