Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Shungo Umeda

Yuji Yasui

Michio Tamura

Masamitsu Shiono

Kazuo Okada

Tatsuya Ohara

Haruyuki Iwasaki

Youichi Nakahara

Hiroshi Kiyomoto

Kazunori Yamamoto

Manabu Nakayama

Atsushi Kubo

Isao Usukura

There are provided an artificial joint device that can realize an artificial limb enabling twisting motion without a drive source, and when with the drive source, reduce the size and costs of the device, and a parallel linkage that can realize the device. The linkage connects a foot portion and a mounting plate spaced from each other. A fixed link has one end fixed to the plate, and the other end connected to the foot portion via a ball joint, making the angle of the fixed link relative to the foot portion changeable in any direction. Expansible links extend between the foot portion and the plate in an expansible/contractible manner and each have opposite ends connected to the plate and the foot portion via respective upper and lower ball joints, making respective angles thereof relative to the foot portion and the plate changeable in any direction.

Parallel linkage and artificial joint device using the same

A rear window is provided as a curved window, curved with an arc-like shape in the car width direction, with flexible frames disposed parallel along the upper side and the lower side of the curved window, mounted to a convertible top or hood. The flexible frames regain the straight shape at the time of folding the rear window so as to eliminate the curvature of the rear window in the car width direction as well as a linear fold can be formed in this direction without forming disadvantageous folds.

Hood structure

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Saitama-ken, Japan

Shungo Umeda