US 12,070,406 B2
Patch systems for use with assistive exosuit
Melinda Cromie Lear, San Jose, CA (US); Katherine Goss Witherspoon, Menlo Park, CA (US); Megan Grant, San Francisco, CA (US); Nicole Ida Kernbaum, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Richard Mahoney, Los Altos, CA (US); Mallory L. Tayson-Frederick, San Francisco, CA (US); Louis Calvin Fielding, San Carlos, CA (US); Violet Riggs, San Francisco, CA (US); Erik Shahoian, Sonoma, CA (US); and Mary Elizabeth Hogue, Menlo Park, CA (US)
Assigned to SEISMIC HOLDINGS, INC., Menlo Park, CA (US)
Filed by SEISMIC HOLDINGS, INC., Menlo Park, CA (US)
Filed on May 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/330,776.
Application 17/330,776 is a continuation of application No. 15/836,496, filed on Dec. 8, 2017, granted, now 11,020,261, issued on Jun. 1, 2021.
Application 15/836,496 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/684,466, filed on Aug. 23, 2017, granted, now 10,926,123, issued on Feb. 23, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/431,779, filed on Dec. 8, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/378,471, filed on Aug. 23, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/378,555, filed on Aug. 23, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0079792 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. A61H 3/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/11 (2006.01); A61F 2/70 (2006.01); A61F 5/01 (2006.01); B25J 9/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/369 (2021.01)
CPC A61F 5/0102 (2013.01) [A61B 5/11 (2013.01); A61B 5/1126 (2013.01); A61B 5/6811 (2013.01); A61B 5/6812 (2013.01); A61B 5/7267 (2013.01); A61F 2/70 (2013.01); A61H 3/00 (2013.01); B25J 9/0006 (2013.01); A61B 5/369 (2021.01); A61B 2562/0219 (2013.01); A61H 2003/007 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An exosuit comprising:
a first body segment load distribution member; and
a second body segment load distribution member comprising:
a patch integration region that is standardized to accept any one of a plurality of modular patch assemblies each having a different work capacity, wherein each modular patch assembly is configured to be attached to and removed from the patch integration region, and wherein each modular patch assembly comprises:
at least one flexible linear actuator (FLA) coupled to a substrate, wherein the at least one FLA comprises a motor and a twisted string, wherein a first end of the twisted string is coupled to a rotatable member associated with the motor and a second end of the twisted string extends distally away from the patch integration region and is attached to a portion of the first body segment load distribution member;
at least one battery coupled to the substrate; and
control electronics coupled to the substrate, the at least one FLA, and the at least one battery and configured to selectively activate the at least one FLA to provide muscle movement assistance to a user of the exosuit, wherein the at least one FLA shortens a length of the twisted string to apply a force during the muscle movement assistance.