WALKING ASSISTANCE DEVICE AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF

• Main Authors: FUJINORI YOICHI, YAMAGUCHI YUHEI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 17.10.2019
• Subjects: ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSESOR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MASSAGE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING ORSTIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY

To provide a walking assistance device capable of moving in accordance with user's walking sense.SOLUTION: A walking assistance device for assisting user's walking and moving independently includes: a gripping unit that the user grips; a detection unit for detecting a physical quantity to be changed depending on a load that the user pushes and pulls the gripping unit; and a movement control unit for increasing and decreasing the movement speed of the walking assistance device on the basis of the detection result of the detection unit.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4 【課題】使用者の歩行感覚に合わせて移動できる歩行補助装置を提供する。【解決手段】歩行補助装置は、使用者の歩行を補助して自立移動する歩行補助装置であって、使用者が把持する把持部と、使用者が把持部を押引きする荷重によって変化する物理量を検出する検出部と、検出部の検出結果に基づいて歩行補助装置の移動速度を増減させる移動制御部とを備える。【選択図】図４