Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kyoto University

Showa Corporation

Toru Takenaka

Takashi Matsumoto

Kazushi Akimoto

Hiroshi Gomi

Takahide Yoshiike

Shinichiro Kobashi

Hideo Murakami

Tadaaki Hasegawa

Shinya Shirokura

Makoto Araki

Kazushi Hamaya

Taiji Koyama

Hideharu Izumi

Hiroyuki Urabe

Makoto Hirano

Yuichi Uebayashi

Takayuki Toyoshima

Yoichi Nishimura

Takashi Kudo

Hiroyuki Makino

Masao Nishikawa

Yasushi Ikeuchi

Susumu Miyazaki

Taro Yokoyama

Kei Shimada

Hideaki Takahashi

Wataru Yada

Hiroshi Uematsu

Masato Hirose

Ken Yasuhara

Makoto Hasegawa

Yoshimi Furukawa

Yasuji Shibahata

Shuji Shiraishi

Jun Ashihara

Yasushi Okada

Masanori Takeda

Tomoyuki Kamiyama

Seiji Kato

Kazuya Kuwabara

Hiroshi Kono

Takayuki Kawai

Masao Sasaki

Yoshinari Takemura

Yoshinao Sodeyama

Yosuke Ikedo

Kenichi Katagiri

Minami Asatani

Nobuaki Ozawa

Yoshihiro Mori

Naoyuki Saito

Hironori Waita

Keizo Matsumoto

Shunichi Nakabayashi

Tomohiro Kawakami

Satoshi Shigemi

Kenji Muto

Taihei Setoguchi

Keisuke Koitabashi

Yusuke Yamamoto

Tadanobu Takahashi

Yutaka Hiki

Yosuke Endo

Osamu Yano

Naohide Ogawa

Masakazu Kawai

Toshiaki Matsuzawa

Satoru Okoshi

Keisuke Korekado

Takeshi Echizenya

Junji Takado

Yuichi Yoshida

Tatsuya Ishikawa

Koji Akatsuka

Yukihiro Orimoto

Koji Ohata

Masaki Goto

Kenichi Ogawa

Katsushi Tanaka

Osamu Kikuchi

Yoshiki Takahashi

Shigeo Sano

Tomoyuki Shimono

Takahiro Fujishiro

Yu Goto

Tomoya Ushimura

Yosuke Nagata

Katsushi c/o Showa Corporation Tanaka

To provide a frictional drive unit that can arrange drive rollers with high density and facilitate an attachment operation of the drive rollers, a frictional drive unitincludes a pair of drive disks, a plurality of drive rollersrotatably supported by an outer circumferential portion of each drive disk, a pair of actuatorsconfigured to independently rotate the pair of drive disks, and an annular main wheelarranged between the pair of drive disks and coming into contact with the drive rollers. Each drive roller includes a roller shaftand a round roller bodyprovided on an intermediate portion of the roller shaft. Each drive disk includes plural pairs of bearing grooveseach receiving both ends of the roller shaft of each drive roller. Each bearing grooves open toward the main wheel.

Frictional drive unit

A tensile force generating device includes: a base member; a guide pipe having a base end fixed to the base member and a free end, the guide pipe being provided with a first slot extending in a longitudinal direction; a tubular elastic member fitted over the guide pipe and having a base end supported by the base member on a side of the base end of the guide pipe; a flexible wire passed into the guide pipe from a side of the base end of the guide pipe; an end member slidably mounted on the guide pipe and supporting a free end of the elastic member; and a slider slidably received in the guide pipe, joined to a tip of the wire, and joined to the end member through the first slot.

Tensile force generating device and bending and stretching motion assist device provided with same

A mobile body (A) includes: a base body () tiltably assembled to a movement operation section () that can move on a floor surface; an occupant riding sectioninstalled to the base body () by a connection mechanism (); an auxiliary ground contact sectionconnected to the occupant riding section () and in contact with the floor surface in a slidable or rollable manner when a tilt amount of the occupant riding section () with respect to the floor surface increases to a predetermined amount; and a control device () which controls the movement of the movement operation section () to stabilize the attitude of the mobile body (A). The connection mechanism () elastically rocks the occupant riding section () with respect to the base body () according to the movement of the center of gravity of a user P riding on the occupant riding section ().

Mobile body

The present disclosure relates to a hub bracket structure wherein a hub bracket that connects a trailing arm and a hub includes a hub mounting surface, a front connecting surface that connects a front portion of the hub mounting surface and the trailing arm, and a rear connecting surface that connects a rear portion of the hub mounting surface and the trailing arm, each of the front connecting surface and the rear connecting surface is formed in a plate shape extending in up-down and vehicle width directions, and an angle formed by the hub mounting surface and the front connecting surface is greater than an angle formed by the hub mounting surface and the rear connecting surface.

Hub bracket structure

A walking support system includes: an information output device (); a motion detector () which detects a motion of a user; a foot landing position detector () which detect a foot landing position of the user; a determiner () which determines a recommended foot landing position which is a landing position of the feet suitable for stabilizing motions of a gait of the user on the basis of motions of a gait of the user detected by the motion detector, the foot landing position detected by the foot landing position detector, and dynamics; and an output controller () which outputs information indicating the recommended foot landing position determined by the determiner to the information output device.

Walking support system, walking support method, and walking support program

A walking support system is a walking support system which supports walking of a user, and includes a display unit, a landing timing detection unit configured to detect landing at the time of walking of the user, a target landing timing setting unit configured to set a target landing timing of the user on the basis of an output of the landing timing detection unit, and a display control unit configured to cause the display unit to display an auxiliary image prompting the user to land at the target landing timing.

Walking support system, walking support method, and program

Provided is a method for evaluating muscle strength characteristics of a limb based on a muscle group model including a first pair of antagonistic one-joint muscles, a second pair of antagonistic one-joint muscles, and a pair of antagonistic two-joint muscles, where the limb has a first rod having a proximal end supported by a first joint and a second rod supported on a free end of the first rod through a second joint. The method includes: measuring a maximum output of a free end of the second rod in at least one predetermined direction; measuring orbiting outputs of the free end of the second rod in all directions in the plane; and creating a hexagonal maximum output distribution corresponding to a contribution amount of each muscle of the muscle group model based on the maximum output in the predetermined direction and the orbiting outputs.

Method for evaluating muscular strength characteristics

Provided is a travel motion assist device capable of assisting a travel motion of a user without causing any discomfort, and has a high level of versatility. A travel motion assist device includes an assist drive unit configured to be worn on a prescribed joint of the user required for the travel motion of the user, and to be driven in a corresponding manner, a torso motion detection unit configured to be worn on a torso of the user, and to detect the displacement of a center of gravity C indicating the movement of the torso, and a control unit configured to control an operation of the assist drive unit, wherein the control unit estimates a phase of the travel motion of the user according to a detection result of the torso motion detection unit, and drives the assist drive unit at a prescribed phase.

Travel motion assist device

Provided is a motion transmission mechanismof a limb motion support deviceA configured so as not to transmit the movements of a pair of bracesR andL attached to right and left legs to spring membersR andL in a state where the bending degrees of the right and left legs are smaller than a predetermined bending degree in the case where both of the right and left legs equipped with the bracesL andR are bent from a stretched state and configured to transmit the movements of the bracesL andR to the spring membersL andR via a wireafter the bending degrees of the legs increase to be larger than the predetermined bending degree.

Limb motion support device

A walking support device includes a shape detector configured to detect a shape of a road surface on which a user moves, and a display controller configured to provide an auxiliary image emphasizing an uneven state of the road surface such that the auxiliary image is superimposed on the shape of the road surface on the basis of a result of the detection of the shape detector.

Walking support device, walking support method and program

A wheel frame () includes a cylindrical hub () into which an axle () is rotatably inserted, a six-axis force sensor () having an insertion hole () into which the hub () is inserted, and an outer flange () extending radially outward from an input section () of the six-axis force sensor (), wherein a hand rim () is attached to the outer flange ().

Wheel frame of driving wheel of a wheel chair including an ergometer including improved stabilization for increasing torque measurement of a user

A motion assist device for assisting a motion such as a walking motion of a user includes: a pair of femoral part support units (L,R) configured to be worn by two femoral parts of a user, a single power source () for producing power and a power transmission unit () for transmitting the power of the power source to the femoral part support units as an opposite phase motion, wherein the power transmission unit includes a differential unit () for accommodating a same phase motion of the two femoral part support units. The device may further include a control unit () configured to actuate the power source when the femoral part support units are undergoing the opposite phase motion, and to keep the output end of the power source stationary when the femoral part support units are undergoing the same phase motion.

Motion assist device

The steering angles of front wheelsand rear wheelsof a vehiclecan be respectively controlled by a front wheel steering angle control actuatorand a rear wheel steering angle control actuator. If a steering wheelis operated in a turning direction of the vehiclewhile the vehicleis traveling in a straight line, then a controllerchanges the steering angle of the front wheelsto approach to a steering angle specified on the basis of an operation amount after the steering wheelis operated, and also controls the front wheel steering angle control actuatorand the rear wheel steering angle control actuatorto change the steering angles of the rear wheelsto the opposite direction of the turning direction of the vehicleimmediately after the steering wheelis operated.

Vehicle

A vehicle includes a vehicle frame, a steering swivel unit supported on a head pipe of the vehicle frame and angularly movable about a steering axis, a front wheel angularly movable in unison with the steering swivel unit, and a steering handle mounted on the steering swivel unit. The vehicle has a steering handle turning mechanism that makes the steering handle angularly movable about the steering axis relatively to the steering swivel unit. The steering handle turning mechanism includes a handle turning motor for angularly moving the steering handle about the steering axis.

A joint mechanismhas a zigzag structureextending in a zigzag pattern between a first memberand a second member. A flexible lengthy memberfixed to the first memberextends from the first membertoward the second memberand is travelable with respect to the second member. A tension application unitthat applies a tension to the flexible lengthy memberis configured to be capable of changing a tension to apply.

Joint mechanism

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Toru Takenaka