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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
May. 20, 2015
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhito Kuromiya, Saitama, JP;
Hiroyuki Goto, Saitama, JP;
Makoto Nakatsuka, Saitama, JP;
Hideo Shimizu, Saitama, JP;
Tatsuya Ishikawa, Saitama, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a motion assist apparatus capable of reducing the discomfort of a user that may be caused when a motion is assisted. A motion assist apparatushas actuators, which apply a force for controlling the posture of the upper body of a user P through the intermediary of a second frame, a posture estimation sensor PS, which detects a posture angle θ of the upper body of the user P, a control unit C, which controls the actuatorsto reduce a deviation dθ of a posture angle θ from a reference posture angle θ0, and a trigger sensor TS, which detects the occurrence of a trigger event. The control unit C sets the posture angle at the time of the occurrence of the trigger event as the reference posture angle θ0.