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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2014
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 5/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 5/0102 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0003 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed are a joint protection apparatus and a control method thereof. The joint protection apparatus includes a support unit, to which different support frames are coupled via a hinge, a fastening adjustment unit coupled to the support unit to provide fastening force required to fasten the support unit to a human body, a sensing unit configured to sense motion of the different support frames, and a controller configured to decide a motion region in which the motion sensed by the sensing unit is included and to decide the fastening force of the decided motion region.