Walking assistant harness
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSeisuke Yamazaki
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Abstract
A walking assistant harness attached to a leg of a trainee so as to assist walking of the trainee includes: a thigh frame placed along a front side or a rear side of a thigh of the trainee; and a thigh fixation belt connected to the thigh frame at a connection portion, so as to fix the thigh of the trainee to the thigh frame, and the connection portion includes a connecting position adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a connecting position with the thigh fixation belt in a right-left direction of the trainee.
Claims4
A walking assistant harness attached to a leg of a trainee so as to assist walking of the trainee, the walking assistant harness comprising:
- a thigh frame placed along a front side or a rear side of a thigh of the trainee;
- and
- a thigh fixation belt including a first wing and a second wing,
- wherein the first wing is connected to a first portion of the thigh frame at a first connection portion and the second wing is connected to a second portion of the thigh frame at a second connection portion so as to fix the thigh of the trainee to the thigh frame,
- wherein the first connection portion includes a first connecting position adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a first connecting position with the thigh fixation belt in a right-left direction of the trainee, and the second connection portion includes a second connecting position adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a second connecting position with the thigh fixation belt in the right-left direction of the trainee,
- wherein the first connecting position and the second connecting position are adjustable based on a size of the thigh of the trainee,
- wherein each of the first connecting position adjustment mechanism and the second connecting position adjustment mechanism is constituted by a plurality of connecting holes provided in the thigh frame side by side along the right-left direction of the trainee, and
- wherein the first wing includes a first protruding portion to be engaged with any of the plurality of connecting holes of the first connecting position adjustment mechanism, and the second wing includes a second protruding portion to be engaged with any of the plurality of connecting holes of the second connecting position adjustment mechanism,
- wherein the first protruding portion and the second protruding portion each includes a cylindrical head and a cylindrical support portion having a diameter smaller than that of the cylindrical head, a first end of the cylindrical support portion being fixed to the first wine or the second wing, and the cylindrical head being provided at a second end of the cylindrical support portion, and
- wherein each of the plurality of connecting holes includes an attachment hole to which the first protruding portion or the second protruding portion is fixed, an insertion hole having a diameter larger than that of the attachment hole, and a communication passage via which the attachment hole communicates with the insertion hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.