Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Eisuke Aoki

Tomio Ikeda

Tadashi Odashima

Takahiro Takeda

Hitoshi Konosu

Issei Nakashima

Yuji Nakamura

Makoto Kakuchi

Masayuki Imaida

Makoto Mori

Daisuke Yamada

Shuhei Manabe

Takeshi Kama

Shingo Shimoda

Hidekazu Nishigaki

Seiichi Tanabe

Tytus Wojtara

Hidenori Kimura

Yasuhiro Ebihara

Fujio Ikeda

Riyusei Takano

Yusuke Ano

Yuko Nakahira

Supination and pronation of an ankle joint during a lower limb exercise is achieved. A foot-pedaling exercise equipment as a lower limb exercise equipment is a lower limb exercise equipment that enables a lower limb exercise to be performed using a pair of pedal units. Each of pedal units includes: a step part on which a corresponding foot part can be put; a base part; and a joint part that is provided between the step part and the base part and couples the step part to the base part in such a way that the step part can do a pitch turn, a roll turn, and a yaw turn with respect to the base part.

Lower limb exercise equipment and pedal unit

A left leg unit includes a vertical piece; a horizontal piece; a vertical guide groove; a horizontal guide groove; an outer coupling bar to which the vertical piece and the horizontal piece are rotatably coupled, thereby coupling the vertical piece and the horizontal piece to each other; and a pedal that is rotatably coupled to the outer coupling bar. The vertical guide groove and the horizontal guide groove are extended in such a way that they intersect with each other. A rotation axis of the pedal is disposed away from a rotation axis of the vertical piece and a rotation axis of the horizontal piece and is disposed away from a midpoint of a line that connects the rotation axis of the vertical piece and the rotation axis of the horizontal piece, whereby the rotation axis of the pedal moves along an elliptical trajectory.

Pedal support structure and pedal support system

A shank outer link moves away from a thigh outer link in the longitudinal direction of the shank outer link and the shank outer link is drawn forward in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the shank outer link relative to the thigh outer link as a knee joint of a user is extended. A shank inner link moves away from a thigh inner link in the longitudinal direction of the shank inner link and the shank inner link is drawn forward in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the shank inner link relative to the thigh inner link as the knee joint of the user is extended.

Knee brace and leg brace

A rowing exercise device includes: a pair of pedals; and a device body that guides the pair of pedals in such a way that the pair of pedals repeatedly move along a predetermined trajectory. A user performs a lower limb exercise by putting his/her feet on the pair of respective pedals. Each pedal is configured in such a way that a relative roll turn of a forefoot part relative to the device body is prevented while a relative roll turn of a rearfoot part relative to the forefoot part is allowed, whereby a relative roll turn of the forefoot part relative to the rearfoot part occurs during the lower limb exercise.

Lower limb exercise device and exercise system

A lower limb exercise device that enables a user to perform a lower limb exercise effectively is achieved. A lower limb exercise device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure enables a user to perform a lower limb exercise while the user is seated on a chair. The lower limb exercise device includes exercise equipment for the user to perform the lower limb exercise, and a restriction mechanism configured to restrict movement of at least one caster of the chair from a reference arrangement range of the caster during the lower limb exercise.

Lower limb exercise device and lower limb exercise system

A muscle activity output system includes: a muscle activity database configured to hold movable part attitude information and muscle activity information in such a manner that the movable part attitude information and the muscle activity information are linked to each other; and a processor. The movable part attitude information indicates an attitude of a movable part of training equipment. The muscle activity information indicates a muscle activity of each of muscle sites of the exerciser. The processor is configured to acquire the movable part attitude information while the exerciser is moving the body along the trajectory, acquire current muscle activity information for each of the muscle sites based on current movable part attitude information of the training equipment and the muscle activity database, and output the current muscle activity information for each of the muscle sites.

Muscle activity output system

An exercise system includes a rowing exercise device and a chair. The rowing exercise device achieves a lower limb exercise which includes repetitive extension and flexion of at least a knee joint and a hip joint. The chair is the one on which a user who performs the lower limb exercise using the lower limb exercise device sits. The chair includes a seat on which the user sits and a support mechanism capable of supporting the seat in such a manner that the seat can carry out a roll oscillation. The seat carries out a roll oscillation during the lower limb exercise, which causes a motion linkage between a lower limb and a trunk.

Exercise system with lower limb exercise device and chair

To provide a posture correction system, a posture correction method, and a program each adapted to correct a posture of a user. A posture correction system includes directing means for directing a line of sight of a user to a position higher than a position of a gazing region which the user gazes at, thereby prompting the user to stretch his/her cervical and thoracic vertebrae.

Posture correction system, posture correction method, and program

A foot-pedaling exercise system assists workers, the foot-pedaling exercise system including an integrated pedal unit, rotatably supported by an equipment main body. The system includes a sitting part that performs yaw and roll turns through a turn actuator. When an exercise monitoring sensor detects inactivity, the controller initiates control to create a kinematic chain that encourages natural exercise motions of the user.

Foot-pedaling exercise system, control method, and program

A lower limb exercise system exercise system includes a chair including a seat and a rowing exercise device configured to enable a user to perform rowing exercise while the user remains sitting on the seat. The seat is configured to at least roll, pitch, or yaw. The seat can instead be configured to at least roll and yaw. The rolling of the seat indicates that the seat descends as the seat moves away to the right or the left from a reference position.

Rowing exercise system

A chair includes a movable part including a seat on which a user sits, a supporting part configured to support the movable part in such a way that the movable part can be moved to the right and to the left; and a restoration unit, which is a biasing member configured to bias the movable part toward the neutral position in the right and the left. The supporting part supports the movable part in such a way that the movable part descends as the movable part is away from the neutral position.

Exercise chair

A pedal-driven exercise machine is designed for an exerciser in a seated position to do pedaling. The pedal-driven exercise machine is equipped with a main body portion, a crank unit that is rotatably supported by the main body portion, a pedal unit that is rotatably supported by the crank unit, and a foot space securing unit that secures a foot space at a foot of the exerciser by retreating the pedal unit from the foot of the exerciser when the pedal-driven exercise machine is out of use.

Pedal-driven exercise machine

A pedaling exercise device includes a rotation mechanism configured to pivotally support a rotation shaft to allow rotation, a pair of cranks having first ends connected to both ends of the rotation shaft of the rotation mechanism, respectively, a pair of links having first ends rotatably connected to second ends of the cranks, respectively, and having second ends provided with wheels, respectively, a pair of pedal portions connected to the links along a longitudinal direction of the links, respectively, a rolling surface connected to a first end of the rotation mechanism on a user side, and a restriction portion configured to restrict separation of the wheels from the upper surface of the rolling surface in a case where the first end of the rotation mechanism is lifted such that the rotation mechanism is erected in a state where a second end of the rotation mechanism is grounded.

Pedaling exercise device

The present disclosure can provide a leg brace capable of reducing a pain in a knee while both enhancing its convenience and reducing the burden on an ankle. the leg brace including: a first pushing part that pushes a leg of the wearer outward so that an ankle bone is positioned above a heel bone; a second pushing part that pushes the leg of the wearer inward so that the ankle bone is positioned above the heel bone; a restraint part that restrains a positional relation between the first and the second pushing parts in which they face each other across the leg of the wearer; and a placement part on which a foot of the wearer is placed, the placement part being connected to the first pushing part or the second pushing part.

Leg brace

A knee brace includes a thigh fixing part, a shank fixing part, an outer leg joint that couples the thigh fixing part with the shank fixing part, and an inner leg joint that couples the thigh fixing part with the shank fixing part. When the wearer P flexes his/her knee joint, a lower arm is rotated with respect to an upper arm along with a rotation fulcrum shaft sliding in a long groove and a cam shaft sliding in a cam groove. When the outer leg joint and the inner leg joint are extended, the lower arm of the outer leg joint is configured to be moved relatively forward with respect to the lower arm of the inner leg joint.

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Nagoya, Japan

Eisuke Aoki