To provide a body movement assisting device 1 that helps an invalid 8 with the muscle strength of his legs and waist weakened and his body balance sense deteriorated stand up and walk, so that the invalid 8 can move freely without the help of care personnel.
The body movement assistant device 1 includes a slide column 6 making the invalid movable both horizontally and vertically and body holders 7a and 7b installed on the slide column 6. The invalid 8 moves his/her body by holding the arms 17a, 18a of body holders 7a and 7b between the body 8c and arm 8b. A converter 2 is provided, where when the invalid 8 inclines his head 8a in the direction he wants to move, the converter 2 converts the direction of inclination of the head 8a into the inclination of a pendulum 22; a detector 3a, 3b detects the pendulum plane direction where the pendulum 22 is inclined and moves the body holder 7a, 7b in the direction of pendulum plane.
KANEKO TOSHIKAZU
MACHITANI MASAHIRO
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