K111001 空気圧ゴム人工筋を用いたパワーアシストウェア([K11100](機素潤滑設計部門企画))

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In the coming advanced age society, an innovative technology to assist the activities of daily living of elderly and disabled people and the heavy work in nursing is desired. A wearable power assist device is one of effective approaches as such a technology, which is equipped to the human body to assist the muscular force. Since this kind of device directly acts on the human body, it should be friendly for human, so should be small, lightweight and has to provide a proper softness. A pneumatic rubber artificial muscle is effective for such requirements. We have developed some types of pneumatic rubber artificial muscles and applied them to the wearable power assist device. In this paper, some types of wearable power assist device, for example, power assist glove and power assist wear like clothes are introduced.
2011-09-11