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US 12,220,626 B2Granted
Motorized walking shoes
OwnerRaja Singh Tuliinventor
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A motorized personal transportation article is described which transports a person by wearing a pair of power-assisted motorized shoes, wherein the shoes provide an increase in a user's walking speed in a forward walking action through supplementary motion of moving or propelling means based on an intended walking speed of the user, such that when a user's intended walking speed changes or when a user intends to substantially decelerate or immobilize, the speed of the supplementary motion can be adjusted before the step is completed. The sole of each of the shoes houses at least one plate coupled to moving or propelling means such as conveyor assemblies, and the moving or propelling means are designed to neutralize forces acting to disrupt the operation of the moving or propelling means during a forward walking action or the balance and comfort of the user.
A pair of powered motorized shoes comprising at least one motorized mechanism and a processing unit in each of the shoes, wherein the processing unit receives information from at least one motion sensor to deduce from the speed that is strictly contributed by the user for each shoe a change in a user's intended walking speed that happens during a step and to synchronously change the speed of the at least one motorized mechanism in both of the shoes such that a new intended speed of the user aided by the shoes is reached by the shoes.
A pair of powered motorized shoes comprising at least one motorized mechanism and a processing unit in each of the shoes, wherein the processing unit receives information from at least one motion sensor to deduce a change in a user's intended walking speed that happens during a step and to synchronously change the speed of the at least one motorized mechanism in both of the shoes such that a new intended speed of the user aided by the shoes is reached by the shoes, and wherein the at least one motion sensor comprises at least one accelerometer housed in each of the shoes.
A pair of powered motorized shoes comprising at least one motorized mechanism and a processing unit in each of the shoes, wherein the processing unit receives information from at least one motion sensor to deduce a change in a user's intended walking speed that happens during a step and to synchronously change the speed of the at least one motorized mechanism in both of the shoes such that a new intended speed of the user aided by the shoes is reached by the shoes, and wherein the change in the user's intended walking speed that happens during a step is sensed at a peak speed of the shoe that is strictly contributed by a walking motion of the user during the step.
A pair of powered motorized shoes comprising at least one motorized mechanism and a processing unit in each of the shoes, wherein the processing unit receives information from at least one motion sensor to deduce a change in a user's intended walking speed that happens during a step and to synchronously change the speed of the at least one motorized mechanism in both of the shoes such that a new intended speed of the user aided by the shoes is reached by the shoes, and wherein the change in the user's intended walking speed that happens during a step is sensed at an inflection point in a speed level of the shoe that is strictly contributed by a walking motion of the user during the step.
A method for determining a user's intended walking speed, comprising:
A pair of powered motorized shoes comprising at least one motorized mechanism and at least one motion sensor in each of the shoes, wherein the at least one motion sensor provides information that is used to deduce from the speed that is strictly contributed by the user for each shoe a change in a user's intended walking speed that happens during a step, and wherein the speed of the at least one motorized mechanism in both of the shoes is synchronously changed such that a new intended speed of the user aided by the shoes is reached by the shoes.
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