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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2016
Sri International, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Katherine Goss Witherspoon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexander Steele Kernbaum, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A variety of flexible body harnesses are provided to distribute loads comfortably and evenly across one or more segments of the human body. The trajectories of load-bearing straps of the provided body harnesses apply shear to underlying portions of skin of a body segment evenly across the length of the load-bearing straps. Such trajectories can approximate catenary curves as the straps encircle the body segment. The trajectories of such straps around a body segment are maintained by attaching the straps to an underlayer, by incorporating the straps into a flexible material, and/or by weaving further straps around the load-bearing straps to maintain their relative location and/or curvature. Such body harnesses can be provided as part of assistive, rehabilitative, prosthetic, or strength-enhancing systems configured to apply forces to the body via the body harnesses.