Sony Corporation

Naomasa Sato

Toshiro Hayashi

Hiroyuki Itoh

Ichiro Katagiri

Tetsuo Endo

Yuichi Nanae

Hiroyoshi Hayashi

Yasuhito Eguchi

Shoji Tanina

Syunji Ooshima

A moving apparatus with a driving force assist mechanism traveled mainly by human power. This moving apparatus detects, in a non-contact manner, with respect to rotating portion such as traveling wheel, etc., rotation speed of the rotating portion to detect traveling state to deliver, from the driving force assist mechanism, assistant driving force corresponding to speed change information that a person who operates the moving apparatus intends to give on the basis of the detected traveling information to carry out traveling to thereby permit smooth traveling even in the case where traveling by only human power becomes difficult.

Moving apparatus with drive force assist mechanism and movement control method

The present invention provides a novel torque detecting apparatus capable of detecting torque with a simple structure and high precision by way of transmitting drive force via a pair of rotary bodies that cause own relative position to be varied by effect of torque to enable detection of variation of resonant frequency corresponding to variation of the relative position under non-contact condition or by way of transmitting drive force via a pair of rotary bodies that cause own relative position to be varied by effect of torque to enable transmission of modulated signal corresponding to variation of the relative position under non-contact condition.

Torque detecting apparatus

Moving apparatus with drive power assisting device and movement controlling method

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Saitama, Japan

Naomasa Sato