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Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2025

Filed:

Jul. 17, 2020
Applicant:

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Inventors:

Michael P. Rowe, Pinckney, MI (US);

Danil Prokhorov, Canton, MI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61H 1/02 (2006.01); B25J 9/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61H 1/02 (2013.01); A61H 1/024 (2013.01); A61H 1/0266 (2013.01); A61H 1/0277 (2013.01); A61H 1/0281 (2013.01); B25J 9/1075 (2013.01); A61H 2201/1207 (2013.01); A61H 2201/1238 (2013.01); A61H 2201/1409 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5097 (2013.01);
Abstract

A therapeutic motion device includes a support structure including a first support portion and a second support portion. The first support portion rotatably coupled to the second support portion and at least one of the first support portion and the second support portion is movable relative to the other of the first support potion and the second support portion. First and second actuation arms extend from the first and second support portions, respectively. An artificial muscle drive unit couples the first actuation arm to the second actuation arm, the artificial muscle drive unit including one or more artificial muscles expandable in a movement direction to provide a movement force to at least one of the first support portion and the second support portion.


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