Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Risk-of-falling determination apparatus, risk-of-falling determination method, recording medium, and output apparatus
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Application No.: US15392907Application Date: 2016-12-28
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Publication No.: US10646140B2Publication Date: 2020-05-12
- Inventor: Souksakhone Bounyong , Shinobu Adachi , Jun Ozawa , Misaka Kimura , Yuya Watanabe , Keiichi Yokoyama
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Properly Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Properly Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@14d5a6a7
- Main IPC: A61B5/00
- IPC: A61B5/00 ; A61B5/11 ; G16H50/30 ; G16H50/20 ; A61B5/0492

Abstract:
A risk-of-falling determination apparatus includes a walk information obtainer that obtains walk information of a user, a myoelectric sensor that measures a first myoelectric potential difference on an anterior surface of a thigh of the user and a second myoelectric potential difference on a posterior surface of the thigh, a control circuit that identifies an interval of a stance phase by using the walk information, calculates a degree of co-contraction at a corresponding leg of the user on the basis of the first and second myoelectric potential differences for the stance phase, and determines whether the degree of co-contraction is greater than or equal to a first threshold, and an outputter that outputs a signal indicating that the user has a high risk of falling if the degree of co-contraction is greater than or equal to the first threshold.
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