Gait assistive device and walking robot having the same
OwnerIl Soo KIMinventor
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Abstract
A gait assistive device that may be used to improve a gait disability by replacing or compensating movement of joints of an ankle and a foot that occur during a gait or that may be used for a bottom structure of a gait robot is disclosed. The present invention provides a gait assistive device including: a foot supporting part; a rear connecting part coupled to a heel portion of the foot supporting part; and a rearfoot plate coupled to the rear connecting part, wherein the rear connecting part may include a joint, and a shaft of the joint is installed on a line or rear line of a load line at heel strike during a gait cycle based on a direction of a gait.
Claims9
A gait assistive device comprising:
- a foot supporting part;
- a rear connecting part coupled to a heel portion of the foot supporting part;
- and
- a rearfoot plate coupled to the rear connecting part,
- wherein the rear connecting part includes a joint, and
- the joint allows movement of the rearfoot plate to make plane contact with a ground at a moment of a heel strike during a gait cycle and to move in coronal and sagittal planes,
- wherein an angle maintaining part is disposed between the foot supporting part and the rearfoot plate, the angle maintaining part causes the rearfoot plate to tilt to a predetermined angle at a second half of a stance phase or a swing phase, the rearfoot plate makes a plane contact with the ground at a moment of the heel strike.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.