ARTIFICIAL LEG MOTION ASSISTING APPARATUS AND ARTIFICIAL LEG MOTION ASSISTING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20190328553A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-31

    申请号:US16462195

    申请日:2017-03-17

    Inventor: Yoshiyuki SANKAI

    Abstract: An artificial leg motion assisting apparatus and an artificial leg motion assisting method which are capable of transmitting knee joint motive power to a commercially-available trans-femoral prosthesis without making a wearer feel a sense of discomfort. When the artificial leg motion assisting apparatus is attached to the commercially-available trans-femoral prosthesis, a control unit controls a drive unit by a specified control method on the basis of mechanical impedance adjusted by an impedance adjustment unit and transmits output of the drive unit to a knee joint coupling.

    WEARING-TYPE MOVEMENT ASSISTANCE DEVICE
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170144309A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-05-25

    申请号:US15318243

    申请日:2015-06-12

    Inventor: Yoshiyuki SANKAI

    Abstract: A wearing-type movement assistance device includes a frame to be worn on an upper limb of a wearer, a drive unit provided in each of joints of the frame, a biomedical signal detection unit detecting a biological potential signal of the wearer, a joint angle detection unit detecting an angle of each joint, and a control unit controlling the drive unit based on the biological potential signal and the angle of each joint. The frame includes a vertical frame, a shoulder frame that is laterally provided in a shoulder width direction from an upper end of the vertical frame, a first arm frame having one end coupled to the shoulder frame via a shoulder joint unit, and a second arm frame having one end coupled to the other end of the first arm frame via an intermediate joint unit and the other end connected to an elbow joint unit.

    Model-animal functional-improvement evaluation apparatus and nerve-cell culturing apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US20190017007A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-17

    申请号:US15571000

    申请日:2016-04-26

    Inventor: Yoshiyuki SANKAI

    Abstract: Proposed are a functional improvement evaluation apparatus and a nerve cell culture apparatus of model animals capable of performing feedback control, even to mammalian model animals, based on biosignals in the same manner has humans based on a relatively simple configuration. The present invention comprises a biosignal detection unit which is mounted on a central side above an intended in vivo site of a mammalian model animal and/or a peripheral side below an intended in vivo site of a mammalian model animal, and detects a biosignal resulting from a biological activity of the model animal, a control unit which causes a driving source to generate power according to an intent of the model animal based on the biosignal detected by the biosignal detection unit, and a motion transmission mechanism which is connected to a holding part for holding a foot of each leg of the model animal, and transmits the power of the driving source to the holding part so that the holding part swings at a same or approximate trajectory as a natural walking motion pattern of the model animal, and the control unit controls the power of the driving source based on a swing state of the holding part connected to the motion transmission mechanism.

    OBJECT IDENTIFICATION DEVICE AND OBJECT IDENTIFICATION METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20210056339A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-25

    申请号:US16966603

    申请日:2019-01-11

    Inventor: Yoshiyuki SANKAI

    Abstract: Provided are an object identification device and an object identification method in which objects can be easily identified. The object identification device is provided with a pixel group extraction unit which scans, in units of the image area, an X-ray transferred image obtained from an imaging unit which performs X-ray imaging to an item to be inspected that is supplied, and extracts a plurality of pixel groups including characteristics of a shape of at least a part of the item to be inspected, and a determination unit which determines, with regard to the plurality of pixel groups extracted by the pixel group extraction unit, whether the item to be inspected corresponds to the object by executing all of the series of mappings related to an angle of an n direction by using each of the weight parameters based on the data group read from the memory unit.

    UPPER LIMB MOTION SUPPORT APPARATUS AND UPPER LIMB MOTION SUPPORT SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20200346347A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-05

    申请号:US16465876

    申请日:2017-04-07

    Inventor: Yoshiyuki SANKAI

    Abstract: An upper limb motion support apparatus and an upper limb motion support system which are capable of significantly improving the enhancement of an operator's work efficiency and the reduction of their workload are proposed. A controller which causes an articulated arm and an end effector to perform three-dimensional motion according to the operator's intention based on a biological signal acquired by a biological signal detection unit causes the articulated arm and the end effector to perform cooperative motion in conjunction with the operator's upper limb motion by referring to content recognized by an upper limb motion recognition unit.

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