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US 11,534,360 B2Granted
Driving module and motion assistance apparatus including the same
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSe-Gon Roh, Jeonghun Kim, Minhyung Lee, Youn Baek Lee, Jongwon Lee, Byungjune Choi, Hyun Do Choi
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Abstract
A driving module including a driving source configured to generate power, a gear train including a decelerating gear set configured to receive driving power from the driving source and a ring gear attached to one side thereof, and a rotary joint including at least one planetary gear configured to rotate using power received from an output end of the decelerating gear set and to revolve along the ring gear is disclosed.
Claims10
A motion assistance apparatus comprising:
- a fixing module that is attachable to a first portion of a body of a user;
- a driving module including:
- a driving source on the fixing module,
- a gear train including an input gear that is connectable to the driving source, an idle gear with the input gear, and a base gear engaged with the idle gear, wherein the input gear, the idle gear, and the base gear are arranged side by side in a direction crossing an axis of rotation of the input gear, and
- a rotary joint including at least one planetary gear that is engageable with the base gear so that the base gear acts as a sun gear to the at least one planetary gear, and so that the rotary joint is thereby rotatable via driving power provided by the driving source;
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- a supporting module that is attachable to a second portion of the body of the user, and is movable by rotation of the rotary joint via the driving power provided by the driving source.
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A motion assistance apparatus comprising:
- a fixing module that is attachable to a first portion of a body of a user;
- a driving module including:
- a driving source on the fixing module,
- a gear train including an input gear that is connectable to the driving source, an idle gear engaged with the input gear, and a base gear engaged with the idle gear, wherein the input gear, the idle gear, and the base gear are arranged side by side in a same plane crossing the axis of rotation of the input gear, with the idle gear between the input gear and the base gear, and
- a rotary joint including at least one planetary gear engageable with the base gear so that the base gear acts as a sun gear to the at least one planetary gear, and so that the rotary joint is thereby rotatable via driving power provided by the driving source;
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- a supporting module that is attachable to a second portion of the body of the user, and is movable by rotation of the rotary joint via the driving power provided by the driving source.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.