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AssigneeVanderbilt University
InventorsKarl ZELIK, Matthew YANDELL, Dustin HOWSER, Erik LAMERS
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Wearable assistance devices and methods of operating the same are provided. A wearable assistance device includes an upper-body interface with a front side and a rear side and a lower-body interface with a front side and a rear side. The assistance device also includes one or more elastic members, each of the elastic members mechanically coupling the upper-body interface to the lower-body interface and extending from the rear side of the upper-body interface to the rear side of the lower-body interface and along a back of the user so as to provide an assistive force parallel to the back of the user. Further, the assistance device also includes a clutch mechanism associated with each one of the elastic members, the clutch mechanism configured for selectively adjusting the assistive force provided by the one of the elastic members.
A wearable lower back assistance device worn by a user, comprising:
A method for operating a wearable assistance device having an upper-body interface with a front side and a rear side, a lower-body interface with a front side and a rear side, one or more elastic members coupling the upper-body interface to the lower-body interface and extending from the rear side of the upper-body interface to the rear side of the lower-body interface and along a back of the user so as to provide an assistive force parallel to the back of the user, and a clutch mechanism associated with each one of the elastic members, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.