US 2023/0416000 A1 · WORK ASSISTING APPARATUS

Abstract

In a work assisting apparatus helping workers to lift heavy objects with hands, their work is assisted with a light-weight and simply configured winding device, contributing to cost and load reduction while refraining a belt as a support wire rope from hindering their normal working behavior, or another objects from being caught in or wound around the belt, the work assisting apparatus including: a fitting portion fitted on a torso, a wearing portion worn on an arm or a hand of a worker, a belt with one end portion combined to the wearing portion, and a winding device coupled to the fitting portion and winding another end side of the belt. The winding device includes a lock mechanism locking a draw-out position of the belt so as to restrict further drawing out when drawing the one end portion.

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Dependent claims

A work assisting apparatus for assisting work in which a worker grasps a heavy object with a hand and lifts and holds the heavy object, the work assisting apparatus comprising:

a fitting portion configured to be fitted on a torso of the worker;
a wearing portion configured to be worn on an arm or the hand of the worker;
a belt having one end portion combined to the wearing portion;
and
a winding device coupled to the fitting portion and configured to wind another end side of the belt, wherein
the winding device includes:
a biasing mechanism that provides a biasing force in a winding direction to the belt;
and
a lock mechanism configured to lock a draw-out position of the belt so as to restrict further drawing out when the one end portion of the belt is drawn out by any draw-out length.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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