US 11,992,453 B2
Tensile force generating device and bending and stretching motion assist device provided with same
Kenichi Katagiri, Saitama (JP); and Toru Takenaka, Wako (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/284,178
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jul. 24, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/029102
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/079910, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 23, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-194348 (JP), filed on Oct. 15, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0330541 A1, Oct. 28, 2021
Int. Cl. A61H 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61H 3/00 (2013.01) [A61H 2201/1642 (2013.01); A61H 2201/165 (2013.01); A61H 2201/1664 (2013.01); A61H 2201/1676 (2013.01); A61H 2205/088 (2013.01); A61H 2205/106 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tensile force generating device, comprising:
a base member;
a guide pipe having a base end fixed to the base member and a free end, the guide pipe being provided with a first slot extending in a longitudinal direction;
a tubular elastic member fitted over the guide pipe and having a base end supported by the base member on a side of the base end of the guide pipe;
a flexible tensile force transmitting member passed into the guide pipe from a side of the base end of the guide pipe;
an end member slidably mounted on the guide pipe and supporting a tip end of the elastic member; and
a slider slidably received in the guide pipe, joined to a tip of the tensile force transmitting member, and joined to the end member through the first slot.