Open AccessAn innovative design of mechanical auxiliary device for assisting flexor and wears
Author(s) -
Jiankang Zhang,
Z. Yan,
Yijing Chen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1865/3/032045
Subject(s) - socks , physical medicine and rehabilitation , bending , population , wearable computer , engineering , computer science , physical therapy , medicine , simulation , mechanical engineering , structural engineering , embedded system , environmental health
Today, the aging of the population is becoming more and more prominent, and the aging of the population brought about by the social, health and other problems on the family and society for the elderly function also has a higher and higher requirement. Through research and literature review, most of the elderly have the symptoms of leg and foot inconvenience or nape and lower back pain, which brings great obstacles for them to wear pants and socks with bending body. However, it is difficult for the accessory products of flexor wearers sold on the market to truly complete the function of non-flexor movement. For this reason, this project designed a device that can help the elderly to complete the movement of wearing pants and socks without bending down. Moreover, through multi-stiffness adjustment, linkage drive structure is designed to realize the integrated wearable process. According to ergonomics, relevant design is made for the device size, and the combination of multiple adaptive modules can realize the adaptive matching for the elderly with different heights and body shapes.