Training device
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsYosuke Endo, Tetsuya Ido, Ritsuo Hara, Keishiro Kikuchi
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Abstract
A training device capable of converting kinetic energy of an agent into electric energy while applying to the agent a resistance force of a variation behavior appropriate to a motion behavior of the agent. According to the training device, a strength and a direction of a resistance force applied to the agent can be varied via a regenerative braking on a motor according to at least one of a variation behavior of a relative posture between an upper body and a leg of the agent and a temporal variation behavior of the relative posture therebetween.
Claims45
A training device which is provided with a first mounting element mounted to an upper body of an agent, a second mounting element mounted to a leg thereof, an actuator and a controller configured to control the actuator and is configured to transmit a force generated from the actuator to the agent via the first mounting element and the second mounting element, operating selectively in an assist mode configured to apply an assist force to a relative motion between the upper body and the leg of the agent and a training mode configured to apply a resistance force to the relative motion between the upper body and the leg of the agent.
A training device which is provided with a first mounting element mounted to an upper body of an agent, a second mounting element mounted to a leg thereof, an actuator and a controller configured to control the actuator and is configured to transmit a force generated from the actuator to the agent via the first mounting element and the second mounting element, operating according to a hybrid mode mixed with an assist period in which an assist force is applied to a relative motion between the upper body and the leg of the agent and a training period in which a resistance force is applied to the relative motion between the upper body and the leg of the agent.
A training device which is provided with a first mounting element mounted to an upper body of an agent, a second mounting element mounted to a leg thereof, an actuator and a controller configured to control the actuator and is configured to transmit a force generated from the actuator to the agent via the first mounting element and the second mounting element is further provided with an electric energy storing system, wherein
- the actuator is provided with a motor,
- a resistance force is applied to a relative motion between the upper body and the leg of the agent via regenerative braking of the motor,
- the controller is configured to adjust the resistance force as a function with a part of or the entire part of a posture variant denoting a relative posture of the leg with respect to the upper body of the agent and a temporal differential thereof served as a variant of the function, and
- the electric energy generated from the regenerative braking of the motor is stored in the electric energy storing system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.