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US 2019/0336379 A1Published application
Rehabilitation equipment
AssigneeHiwin Technologies Corp.
InventorsWen-Bin Lin, Ming-Hsu Mao
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Abstract
A rehabilitation equipment includes a left foot pedal, a right foot pedal, a left-pedal driving module to drive movement of the left foot pedal, and a right-pedal driving module to drive movement of the right foot pedal. The rehabilitation equipment measures forces output by the left-pedal driving module and the right-pedal driving module when a user is at a relaxing state and also when the user is at an exercising state, thereby obtaining information relating to forces voluntarily output by the left foot and the right foot of the user.
Claims10
A method for assessing voluntary movement of a user during rehabilitation, comprising steps of:
- (A) providing a rehabilitation equipment that includes:
- a left foot pedal for operation by a left foot of the user;
- a left-pedal driving module to drive movement of the left foot pedal for guiding the left foot of the user to take a step;
- a left-pedal measuring module mounted to the left-pedal driving module and configured to measure a force output by the left-pedal driving module to drive movement of the left foot pedal;
- a right foot pedal for operation by a right foot of the user;
- a right-pedal driving module to drive movement of the right foot pedal for guiding the right foot of the user to take a step;
- a right-pedal measuring module mounted to the right-pedal driving module and configured to measure a force output by the right-pedal driving module to drive movement of the right foot pedal;
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- a processing module electrically coupled to the left-pedal measuring module and the right-pedal measuring module;
- (B) measuring, by the left-pedal measuring module and the right-pedal measuring module during a first time period which has a length equaling that of a measuring cycle and in which both of the left foot of the user on the left foot pedal and the right foot of the user on the right foot pedal are at a relaxing state, the force output by the left-pedal driving module to generate first left-pedal force information corresponding to the first time period, and the force output by the right-pedal driving module to generate first right-pedal force information corresponding to the first time period;
- (C) measuring, by the left-pedal measuring module and right-pedal measuring module during a second time period which has a length equaling that of the measuring cycle and in which both of the left foot of the user on the left foot pedal and the right foot of the user on the right foot pedal are at an exercising state, the force output by the left-pedal driving module to generate second left-pedal force information corresponding to the second time period, and the force output by the right-pedal driving module to generate second right-pedal force information corresponding to the second time period;
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- (D) determining, by the processing module, a difference between the first left-pedal force information and the second left-pedal force information to generate left-foot force output information relating to a force output by the left foot of the user, and determining, by the processing module, a difference between the first right-pedal force information and the second right-pedal force information to generate right-foot force output information relating to a force output by the right foot of the user.
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A rehabilitation equipment comprising:
- a left foot pedal for operation by a left foot of a user;
- a left-pedal driving module to drive movement of said left foot pedal for guiding the left foot of the user to take a step;
- a right foot pedal for operation by a right foot of the user;
- a right-pedal driving module to drive movement of said right foot pedal for guiding the right foot of the user to take a step;
- a left-pedal measuring module mounted to said left-pedal driving module, and used to measure, during a first time period which has a length equaling that of a measuring cycle and in which both of the left foot of the user on said left foot pedal and the right foot of the user on said right foot pedal are at a relaxing state, a force output by said left-pedal driving module to generate first left-pedal force information corresponding to the first time period, and to measure, during a second time period which has a length equaling that of the measuring cycle and in which both of the left foot of the user on said left foot pedal and the right foot of the user on said right foot pedal are at an exercising state, a force output by said left-pedal driving module to generate second left-pedal force information corresponding to the second time period;
- a right-pedal measuring module mounted to said right-pedal driving module, and used to measure, during the first time period, a force output by said right-pedal driving module to generate first right-pedal force information corresponding to the first time period, and to measure, during the second time period, a force output by said right-pedal driving module to generate second right-pedal force information corresponding to the second time period;
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- a processing module electrically connected to said left-pedal measuring module and said right-pedal measuring module for receiving the first left-pedal force information, the second left-pedal force information, the first right-pedal force information, and the second right-pedal force information, and configured to determine a difference between the first left-pedal force information and the second left-pedal force information to generate left-foot force output information relating to a force output by the left foot of the user, and determine a difference between the first right-pedal force information and the second right-pedal force information to generate right-foot force output information relating to a force output by the right foot of the user.
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