Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.

Atsuhiro Saitou

Jyuzaemon Iwasaki

Masanobu Yamasaki

Takahisa Ozawa

Kazuhiro Ochi

Fumihiro Nishio

Haruo Sugai

Youichi Shinomiya

Takao Gotou

Takao Goto

Masakatsu Araki

Hideki Tanaka

Hirokazu Katou

A housing is adapted to be placed on a floor and is provided on its top face with a left foot supportand a right foot supportsrespectively bearing left and right feet of a user. A drive unitis provided to displace the left and right foot supportsandin a mutually linked manner. The drive unitis configured to reciprocate the left and right foot supportsandin a forward/rearward direction respectively along individual travel paths La, Lb, while varying a lateral distance between said left and right foot supports with regard to representative points of the left and right foot supports. The lateral distance between forward ends of the travel paths is made greater than the lateral distance between rearward ends of the travel paths.

Passive exercise assisting device

Exercise aiding apparatus includes a stepthat a user puts a user's foot on, and a step drive meansthat causes the step to perform movement including turning motion so that exercise is performed with respect to the foot put on the step. The apparatus includes a lock meansthat fixes the step by engagement with the step except when the step drive meansdrives the step. When the step is not driven, the step is fixed. The step is prevented from moving inadvertently at getting on and off, thereby ensuring safe getting on and off.

Exercise aiding apparatus

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Hirakata, Japan

Atsuhiro Saitou