US 11,622,904 B2 · Human interface device for exoskeleton apparatus

Abstract

A human interface device is configured to be coupled to a trunk of a person and comprises a frame, a fabric coupled to said frame configurable to be under tensile forces, and a belt configured to be coupled to two side edges of said frame wherein when said belt is worn by said person, an area of said fabric will be pushed against the person's lower back conforming to the shape of the lower back of said person. In operation when said human interface device is worn by said person, the weight of any load coupled to or supported by said frame will be partially supported by the friction force between the area of said fabric which is pushed against the person's lower back, and the person's lower back allowing said person to carry said load.

Claims30

Dependent claims

A wearable exoskeleton comprising a human interface device configured to be coupled to a trunk of a person, wherein the human interface device comprises:

a frame to support the wearable exoskeleton, wherein the frame comprises a load bearing structure configured to transfer at least a portion of a weight of the wearable exoskeleton to the frame;
a fabric coupled to the frame configurable to be under tensile forces to create an airgap between the frame and the fabric;
a belt configured to couple the frame to the person;
and
a fan configurable to blow toward the fabric,
wherein when the human interface device is coupled to the person, at least a portion of the weight of the wearable exoskeleton is transferred to the person by the fabric while the fan provides an airflow through the fabric to cool the person.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/373,651Filed 12 Jul 2021 · continuation

Priority

17 Dec 2018

Published

US 2021/0077336 A123 Dec 2021

Granted

11 Apr 2023

Term ends

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Classification23 codes

A61F 5/0102
Orthopaedic devices, e.g. long-term immobilising or pressure directing devices for treating broken or deformed bones such as splints, casts or…
A61H 1/0292
Stretching or bending or torsioning apparatus for exercising: for the spinal column
A61F 5/024
Orthopaedic corsets: having pressure pads connected in a frame for reduction or correction of the curvature of the spine
A61F 5/026
Orthopaedic corsets: back straightening devices with shoulder braces to force back the shoulder to obtain a correct curvature of the spine

Family

Application62/780,891Us provisional application · filed 17 Dec 2018

Application16/713,579Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 13 Dec 2019

Application62/964,386Us provisional application · filed 22 Jan 2020

Application17/100,897Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Nov 2020

US 10,864,102 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 15 Dec 2020

US 2021/0393466 A1Pre-grant publication · published 23 Dec 2021

US 11,071,673 B2Parent of this continuation

Application17/100,897Parent of this continuation-in-part

US 2020/0188159 A1Published application

US 2021/0077336 A1Published application

US 11,622,904 B2This patent

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Human interface device for exoskeleton apparatus

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Human interface device for exoskeleton apparatus

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Abstract

Claims30