Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Walking assistance apparatus
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Application No.: US16121243Application Date: 2018-09-04
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Publication No.: US11241356B2Publication Date: 2022-02-08
- Inventor: Stephen William John , Jun Ozawa , Mayumi Komatsu , Kenta Murakami
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JPJP2016-138503 20160713,JPJP2017-046620 20170310
- Main IPC: A61H3/00
- IPC: A61H3/00 ; A61B5/00 ; A61B5/103 ; A61B5/11 ; A61H1/02

Abstract:
A walking assistance apparatus includes a knee fastener, a heel fastener, a first wire and a second wire connected to the knee fastener and the heel fastener, a first motor connected to the first wire, a second motor connected to the second wire, and a control circuit that controls the first motor and the second motor. The first wire is connected to a first position included in a right-half region of the heel fastener. The second wire is connected to a second position included in a left-half region of the heel fastener. The control circuit acquires gait information of the user, and, based on the gait information, the control circuit controls the first motor to reduce a length of the first wire and the second motor to reduce a length of the second wire at a predetermined timing.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180369057A1 WALKING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-12-27
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