Jtekt Corporation

Yuki Kobayashi

Hiromichi Ohta

Yoshinobu Katoh

Katsuhide Kikuchi

Mikio Shinohara

Shintaro Yoshida

Kazuyoshi Ohtsubo

Takeshi Koyama

Akihisa Umetani

Yoshinori Wada

Madoka Hattori

Riku Nagayama

Kaishu Miyanishi

Kensaku Kogushi

Masafumi Saihara

Mitsuharu Ozaki

Nobuaki Shibata

Nobu Horikiri

Kazuki Ota

Tomoko Nagura

Motion assisting device

An assist device includes: a first brace configured to be worn on at least a waist of a user; an arm configured to extend along a thigh of the user and to rotate with respect to the first brace; an actuator configured to generate torque that rotates the arm; and a second brace provided on the arm and configured to be worn on the thigh. The arm includes an arm body and a holding portion. The holding portion is provided on the arm body such that the holding portion is movable in a longitudinal direction of the arm body. The holding portion holds the second brace such that the second brace is rotatable.

Assist device

A power assist suit includes a harness worn at least around hips of a wearer, an assist unit, a power unit, and a bearing roller. The assist unit includes an arm and a thigh-worn part. A rail is provided at a part of the arm in a longitudinal direction. The rail includes channel-shaped parts extending along the longitudinal direction. The thigh-worn part is connected to sliding movable parts or integrated with at least a portion of the sliding movable parts. The bearing roller is disposed between each of the channel-shaped parts in the rail and each of inner wall surfaces of the sliding movable parts facing the respective channel-shaped parts.

Power assist suit

Orthosis

Growing community of inventors

Nara, Japan

Yuki Kobayashi