Olympus Corporation

Tohoku University

Nipo International Rescue System Institute

Tomonari Yamamoto

Eiichi Kobayashi

Yasuo Hirata

Satoshi Tadokoro

Kenjiro Tadakuma

Masashi Konyo

A moving device includes an elastic tube, a sectional shape of which is elastically deformable according to an internal pressure given by fluid, a slider unit capable of moving forward and backward in a longitudinal direction of the elastic tube according to a change in the sectional shape of the elastic tube, a brake provided in the slider unit and configured to be deformed in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the elastic tube to be capable of coming into sliding contact with a target object, and a fluid adjusting section configured to supply air to or discharge air from the elastic tube respectively via first and second fluid supply pipes that respectively communicate with insides on a distal end side and a proximal end side of the elastic tube.

Moving device and moving method of moving device

Growing community of inventors

Sendai, Japan

Tomonari Yamamoto