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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 02, 2016
Applicant:

Össur Iceland Ehf, Reykjavik, IS;

Inventors:

Matthew A. Holgate, Chandler, AZ (US);

Chase Wheeler, Mesa, AZ (US);

Assignee:

Össur Iceland ehf, Reykjavik, IS;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/70 (2006.01); A61F 2/68 (2006.01); A61F 2/76 (2006.01); A61F 5/02 (2006.01); A61F 2/66 (2006.01); A61F 2/60 (2006.01); A61F 2/72 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/68 (2013.01); A61F 2/60 (2013.01); A61F 2/66 (2013.01); A61F 2/76 (2013.01); A61F 5/02 (2013.01); A61F 2/72 (2013.01); A61F 2002/704 (2013.01); A61F 2002/762 (2013.01); A61F 2002/764 (2013.01); A61F 2002/7625 (2013.01); A61F 2002/7635 (2013.01); A61F 2002/7645 (2013.01);
Abstract

A human assistance device has a rate gyro, first accelerometer, and second accelerometer disposed on a mobile body for sensing a physical state of the mobile body to provide a physical state measurement. The human assistance device can be a prosthetic, orthotic, and robotic device. An ATAN2 function is performed on an output of the first accelerometer and an output of the second accelerometer. An output of the rate gyro and an output of the ATAN2 function is filtered to provide a filtered physical state measurement. The filtered physical state measurement is applied to a reference function to generate a reference command to control a non-gait motion of an actuator in the human assistance device. The reference command controls the human assistance device, for example to provide a shifting foot position while seated, with a natural, biological motion, without an artificial or mechanical appearance.


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