MULTI-JOINT LINK KNEE JOINT

• Main Author: OKUDA MASAHIKO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 24.10.2019
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PROSTHESES; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS

To provide a multi-joint link knee joint that is constituted to detect a bending angle of a knee part and constituted to be capable of adapting to a plurality of types of auxiliary actuators.SOLUTION: A multi-joint link knee joint 100 comprises: a knee part 10 that has an upper link part 50 rotated with respect to a lower link part 52 by a multi-joint link mechanism having a plurality of link parts including the upper and lower link parts 50 and 52; a relative position detection part 58 that detects a position of the upper link part 50 relative to the lower link part 52; and an angle detection part that determines a bending angle of the knee part 10 from the detected relative position.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】多節リンク膝継手において膝部の屈曲角度を検出する構成を、複数の方式の補助駆動部に対応可能な構成とする。【解決手段】多節リンク膝継手１００は、上部リンク部５０および下部リンク部５２を含む複数のリンク部を有する多節リンク機構により、上部リンク部５０が下部リンク部５２に対して回転する膝部１０と、下部リンク部５２に対する上部リンク部５０の相対位置を検出する相対位置検出部５８と、検出された相対位置から膝部１０の屈曲角度を求める角度検出部とを備える。【選択図】図２