Kyushu University

Other

Hitachi, Ltd.

Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.

Sumitomo Riko Company Limited

Tmsuk Co., Ltd.

Japan Medical Materials Corporation

Hitachi Keiyo Engineering & Systems, Ltd.

Yukihide Iwamoto

Shin-ichiro Takasugi

Koichi Nakayama

Kazuhiro Tanaka

Makoto Hashizume

Kazunobu Hashimoto

Yoichi Takamoto

Katsuyuki Baba

Akitsugu Misaki

Hiroshi Ishii

Kazuo Yuge

Hajime Kenmotsu

Masahiro Katou

Shinichiro Takasugi

Motoji Yamamoto

Masanori Sato

Kouichi Ohno

Hiroshi Yaegashi

Shuji Fukugawa

Mika Wada

Kiyoe Harada

Yuji Kawakubo

Keiko Miyazaki

Kenichi Miyamoto

Yukiko Tachibana

Hiromasa Miura

Shuichi Matsuda

Toshinobu Koga

Ryuichi Kusaba

Soichi Nagasato

Shuji Fukagawa

Shin-Ichiro Takasugi

Provided is a joint movement aid, which has a simple structure and is lightweight and which a user can easily put on and take off, and which has a novel structure capable of safely supporting a walking without impeding a user's autonomous fall-preventing movement even in a case of a disturbance such as external force on the user in a transverse direction. The walking movement aid includes a right and left pair of assisting units provided with drive sources, which exert a pulling force on flexible auxiliary force transmission parts, and a control member for controlling the respective drive sources of the assisting units corresponding to changes in a joint angle with user's hip joints.

Walking movement aid

Disclosed is a transfer and locomotion apparatus with excellent functionality, stability, versatility, and user-friendliness such that a person requiring nursing care can transfer between the transfer and locomotion apparatus to a bed and a toilet seat, etc., keeping the orientation of the body. The apparatus comprises a base part having a driving part, a seat part provided on the base part and which a user can sit from a back portion or a side portion, and a breast pad part standing in a front end side of the seat part and contacting a breast of the user. At least one of the seat part and the breast pad part is held to be able to move forward and backward, and upward and downward with respect to the base part.

Transfer and locomotion apparatus

A training machine for enabling the exerciser to exercise under a load appropriate for the individual exercise capability and physical function of the exerciser. The exerciser (E) enters a desired velocity-load characteristic into a load characteristic input device (), and the velocity-load characteristic is stored in the load characteristic memory device (). A load instruction value is determined according to the velocity-load characteristic and to the velocity inputted from a velocity calculation means () into the load characteristic memory device () and transmitted to a control means (). The control means () rotates a servomotor () with a torque instruction value corresponding to the load instruction value. A movement mechanism () converts the rotation into linear movement to move a movable unit (). With this, the exerciser can carry out training of reciprocal movement.

Training device and a control method of the same

The objective of the present invention is to provide a mattress including a plurality of cells provided on a body pressure working surface of a substrate that supports a human body, and a pressure control means that changes a setting of a height of each cell by adjusting a pressure in a fluid chamber formed within the cell. An elastic cushion layer is provided on a body pressure working surface of the cells, and a constricted portion is formed in a middle in the height of the each cell so that the body pressure working surface of the cell is allowed to tilt following deformation of the cushion layer as a result of the cells' precession-deformation at the constricted portion.

Mattress

The present invention provides a cell transplantation device which is capable of inserting cells for transplantation into a cell-deficient site without application of direct external force to the cells. The present invention discloses a cell transplantation device provided with a plate-type carrier with at least one pass-through hole formed on its side surface, a linear member to be threaded through the pass-through hole, and a pusher member which engages with the linear member that comes out from each exit of the pass-through holes.

Device for cell transplantation

The present invention provides a method for arranging various cells as cell clusters in an arbitrary three-dimensional space and producing a three dimensional structure of a desired shape constituted exclusively by cells. Furthermore, the present invention provides a support provided with a substrate and a thread or needle-shaped material that penetrates the substrate and cell clusters for positioning cell clusters in arbitrary space. The support is provided with a sheet that can be removed as necessary for covering the substrate. Further, a method for using the support structure to position cell clusters in an arbitrary space and a method for the production of three-dimensional cell structures are provided.

Method for production of three-dimensional structure of cells

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Fukuoka, Japan

Yukihide Iwamoto