| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To encourage a person who tends not to go out due to his/her waning strength of legs to walk autonomously even in outside living environment by providing the walking support system including a walking support system to regain self-confidence for walking in a town which is an outside living space, that is, to provide the walking support system having a support system for elderly people with waning legs and people with disabled legs to regain autonomous ability to move in a living environment including towns to spend enjoyable life. <P>SOLUTION: Power assist by an electronic motor which controls speed as a means to reduce running resistance of the walking support machine during the walking on steps or ragged road which may be a barrier is provided. The combination of pressing power of a user loaded on the handle, the rate of the pressing power, and the vector of resultant force of the pressing power detect the state of the user and set to match the user's walking rhythm with as less uncomfortable feeling as possible. At the same time, the system requires no operation using switch or lever for presence of a barrier on a road or a different environment. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT |
