Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

University of Occupational and Enviromental Health, Japan

Ikuo Yamamoto

Yuuzi Terada

Takunori Tsuji

Yoshie Nakanishi

Katsuya Daigo

Kenji Hachisuka

Taiji Oda

Futoshi Wada

Hideyuki Sakoda

An exercise training apparatus attached to a trainee who performs a body exercise training, includes movable bodies, actuators, sensors and a processor. The movable bodies each having a fixed member which a part of a trainee's body is fixed to and exercising a trainee's extremities by rotating around shafts, respectively. The sensors each detecting a physical quantity that changes depending on force applied to the fixed members by a trainee. The processor, in response to a detection of a predetermined change in a physical quantity by the sensors, driving the actuators, rotating the movable bodies in a first direction and successively rotating the movable bodies in a second direction opposite to the first direction.

Exercise training apparatus

An underwater propelling apparatus includes a body and a plurality of vibrating units. The plurality of vibrating units are placed in parallel to each other on a rear side of the body. Each of the plurality of vibrating units vibrates repeatedly and reciprocally to produce thrust.

Underwater propelling apparatus which stably carries out a propelling operation and a steering operation

A submersible vehicle is a type having swinging wings. The vehicle is provided with a vehicle main body, a plurality of swinging wings provided for the main body and arranged in series, rotatable shafts located at front edges of the swinging wings, respectively, actuators for driving the shafts independently of one another, and a wing controller for controlling the actuators in such a manner that the wings enable to swing in a flexible manner like the tail fin of a fish, thereby producing a desired propelling force and performing a steering operation.

Submersible vehicle having swinging wings

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Nagasaki, Japan

Ikuo Yamamoto