CN213971191U - Active and passive combined waist assisting exoskeleton - Google Patents

Active and passive combined waist assisting exoskeleton Download PDF

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CN213971191U
CN213971191U CN202022776198.6U CN202022776198U CN213971191U CN 213971191 U CN213971191 U CN 213971191U CN 202022776198 U CN202022776198 U CN 202022776198U CN 213971191 U CN213971191 U CN 213971191U
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The utility model discloses an active and passive combined waist assisting exoskeleton, which comprises a waist fixing piece, a set of supporting rods, leg connecting rods and a power unit, wherein the supporting rods, the leg connecting rods and the power unit are respectively arranged on the waist fixing piece; the power unit is fixed on the waist fixing part, the leg connecting rod and the power unit are fixedly connected and positioned at the front side of thighs of a human body, the supporting rod is positioned at the front shoulder or chest of the human body, the power unit comprises an active power assisting unit and a passive power assisting unit, the lower end of the supporting rod is connected with the power unit and can rotate by taking the power unit as a rotating center, the utility model integrates active driving and passive driving through structural design, and the output torque can be adjusted in real time according to the weight of a transported object; also can save the people energy when bowing the utility model discloses in under the unchangeable condition of output total moment, the required moment of torsion that provides of initiative helping hand unit can be compared in only installing the waist helping hand ectoskeleton of initiative actuating system a lot of little to can be very big reduction in production cost and the weight and the volume of product, possible structure is light and handy, convenient to use.

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Active and passive combined waist assisting exoskeleton
Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of the waist helping hand, a waist helping hand ectoskeleton is related to, especially relate to an initiative waist helping hand ectoskeleton that combines passively.
Background
In life, people always need to bend down to carry objects, and if the objects are frequently bent down to carry or carried too heavy, waist pain or injury is always caused. Especially for construction workers, logistics personnel and the like who need to carry things frequently, waist pain seems to be inevitable, and waist diseases such as waist strain and the like which are difficult to cure are extremely easy to suffer, and even the people can get bedridden seriously.
Therefore, there is a strong need for an exoskeleton assisting device capable of preventing waist injury. Some waist assistance exoskeletons exist at present, but a single assistance mode is adopted, such as: the passive boosting is carried out by adopting passive energy storage such as a spring/damper and the like, or the active boosting is carried out by adopting devices such as a motor or an air cylinder and the like. The passive power assisting usually reduces the waist stress during rising by storing the bending energy of a person, the force is generally not adjustable after bending, the force provided by bending every time is the same, and the force cannot be adjusted according to the weight of the moved object. The active power assistance is provided with power through the motor and the speed reducer, variable auxiliary force can be provided according to the moved weight, but the torque requirement of the needed motor output is large due to the fact that the moment received by the waist is large, the product weight and the cost are increased, and the active power assistance is not suitable for popularization.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
An object of the utility model is to prior art not enough, provide a waist helping hand ectoskeleton that owner combines passively, this ectoskeleton passes through structural design, will take the initiative helping hand unit and set up in an organic whole with passive helping hand unit, can not only exert simultaneously and provide great moment, can adjust the auxiliary force that provides through the initiative unit according to the heavy object of removing in a certain extent moreover, the device structure is light and handy in addition, suitably dresses.
The utility model adopts the technical scheme as follows:
an active-passive combined waist assisting exoskeleton comprises a waist fixing piece, a left supporting rod, a right supporting rod, a leg connecting rod and a power unit, wherein the left supporting rod, the right supporting rod, the leg connecting rod and the power unit are respectively arranged on the waist fixing piece; the waist mounting is used for being fixed in the waist with whole device, and power pack is fixed in on the waist mounting, and shank connecting rod and power pack fixed connection are located human thigh front side, and the bracing piece is located human front shoulder or chest, power pack is including initiative helping hand unit and passive helping hand unit, the lower extreme and the power pack of bracing piece are connected and can rotate for rotation center by power pack, and power pack releases energy when the human body stands up and gives the waist helping hand when the human body bends over.
In the above technical solution, further, the passive power assisting unit includes an energy storing member, a rotating unit, and a fixing unit, the fixing unit is fixed on the waist fixing member and fixed to the leg connecting rod, the rotating unit is rotatable relative to the fixing unit, the support rod is fixed to the rotating unit, and two ends of the energy storing member are respectively connected to the rotating unit and the fixing unit; when a human body bends down, the energy storage piece deforms along with the rotation of the rotating unit to store energy, and when the human body rises, the energy storage piece recovers to release energy to assist the waist.
Furthermore, the active power assisting unit comprises a power output part, and the output end of the power output part is fixed with the rotating unit of the passive power assisting unit.
Furthermore, the exoskeleton is also provided with a sensor for detecting the change of the bending or rising state of the human body, when the bending of the human body is detected, the power output part in the active power assisting unit drives the rotating unit to rotate along the bending direction of the human body so as to reduce resistance, and when the rising of the human body is detected, the power output part drives the rotating unit to rotate along the rising direction of the human body so as to provide power assistance.
Furthermore, the power output part in the active power assisting unit can comprise an electric motor, a hydraulic driving device, a pneumatic device and the like;
furthermore, the energy storage element in the passive power assisting unit mainly comprises a spring, an elastic band, a flexible rope, a damper or other devices for storing energy through deformation.
Furthermore, a fixing unit in the passive power assisting unit comprises an inner plate, an outer plate, a main shaft and a plurality of supporting columns; the inner plate is fixed on the waist fixing piece, the outer plate and the inner plate are arranged oppositely, the main shaft is arranged between the inner plate and the outer plate and is vertically fixed with the inner plate, and the rotating unit is sleeved on the main shaft so as to rotate relative to the main shaft; the outer plate and the inner plate are fixed through a plurality of support columns and screws. One end of the energy storage piece can be connected with the rotating unit, and the other end of the energy storage piece can be connected with any supporting column.
Furthermore, the rotating unit in the passive power assisting unit comprises a rotating frame, an inner tensioning disc, an outer tensioning disc and a plurality of tensioning columns; the rotating frame is sleeved on the fixing unit through a shaft sleeve and can rotate relative to the fixing unit, the inner tensioning disc and the outer tensioning disc are respectively fixed on two sides of the rotating frame, and two ends of the tensioning column are respectively and vertically fixed with the inner tensioning disc and the outer tensioning disc; the support rod is fixedly connected with the rotating frame; one end of the energy storage piece can be connected with the fixing unit, and the other end of the energy storage piece can be connected with any tensioning column.
Furthermore, the supporting rods are provided with shoulder/chest sheaths, and the leg connecting rods are provided with leg sheaths to increase the contact area.
The utility model has the advantages that:
the technical proposal of the utility model combines the active drive and the passive drive into a whole through the structural design, and the output torque can be adjusted in real time according to the weight of the transported object; also can save the people energy when bowing the utility model discloses the required moment of torsion that provides of well initiative helping hand unit can be compared in only installing initiative actuating system's waist helping hand ectoskeleton little a lot to reduction in production cost and the weight and the volume of product that can be very big can accomplish that the structure is light and handy, convenient to use.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a specific structure of the exoskeleton of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a specific structure of the power unit of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the power unit of the other side of FIG. 2;
fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a specific structure of a rotating unit in the passive power assisting unit of the present invention.
In the figure: 1 shoulder/chest sheath, 2 supporting rods, 3 rear side bandage/connecting rod, 4 front side bandage, 5 inner plates, 6 rotating units, 7 active power assisting units, 8 outer plates, 9 batteries, 10 fixed blocks, 11 leg connecting rods, 12 leg sheaths, 13 limiting columns, 14 transmission pins, 15 support columns, 16 main shafts, 17 shaft sleeves, 6-1 rotating frames, 6-2 inner tensioning discs, 6-3 outer tensioning discs, 6-4 tensioning columns and 6-5 transmission holes;
the foregoing description is only an overview of the technical solutions of the present invention, and in order to make the technical means of the present invention more clearly understood, the present invention may be implemented according to the content of the description, and in order to make the above and other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention more obvious and understandable, the following preferred embodiments are described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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To further illustrate the technical means and effects of the present invention adopted to achieve the predetermined purpose, the following detailed description is given to the specific embodiments, structures, features and effects of the display control method and system according to the present invention in conjunction with the preferred embodiments.
The foregoing and other features, aspects and utilities of the present invention will be apparent from the following more particular description of preferred embodiments of the invention as illustrated in the accompanying drawings. While the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments, the drawings are for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to limit the present invention.
The whole structure of the active and passive combined waist assisting exoskeleton of the utility model is shown in figure 1, and comprises a waist fixing piece, a set of support rods 2, a leg connecting rod 11 and a power unit, wherein the support rods are respectively arranged on the left and the right of the waist fixing piece; the waist fixing piece is used for fixing the whole device on the waist, as shown in fig. 1, the whole device can be fixed on the waist through a rear side bandage/connecting rod 3 and a front side bandage 4, a power unit is fixed on the waist fixing piece, a leg connecting rod 11 and the power unit are fixedly connected and located on the front side of thighs of a human body, a supporting rod 2 is located on the front shoulders or chest of the human body, the power unit comprises an active power assisting unit 7 and a passive power assisting unit, the lower end of the supporting rod 2 is connected with the power unit and can rotate by taking the power unit as a rotating center, the supporting rod rotates along with the waist bending of the human body, the power unit limits the leg connecting rod 11 to enable the leg connecting rod 11 not to rotate, so that energy is stored through the power unit, when the human body rises, the energy is released, and the leg protecting sleeve 12 and the shoulder/chest protecting sleeve 1 are contacted with the human body and provide acting force, and the stress of the waist is reduced.
The passive power assisting unit and the active power assisting unit in the power unit have the same structure as the left and right power units, and are described below by taking a single side as an example, and a side view of one power unit and a cross sectional view of the other power unit are respectively shown in fig. 2 and fig. 3.
The passive power assisting unit in the examples of fig. 2 and 3 comprises an energy storage member, a rotating unit 6 and a fixing unit, wherein the fixing unit is fixed on the waist fixing member and fixed with the leg connecting rod 11, the rotating unit 6 can rotate relative to the fixing unit, the supporting rod 2 is fixed with the rotating unit 6, and two ends of the energy storage member are respectively connected with the rotating unit and the fixing unit; the energy storage piece can be metal spring, air spring, elastic band, flexible rope, hydraulic damping etc. but the device of energy storage through deformation, and energy storage piece takes place deformation storage energy along with the rotation of rotary unit when the human body bends, and when the human body rises up, energy storage piece resumes release energy and gives waist helping hand.
The active power assisting unit comprises a power output part, the output end of the power output part is fixed with the rotating unit 6 of the passive power assisting unit, and the power output part can adopt a motor, a hydraulic driving device or a pneumatic device and the like; in addition, a sensor for detecting the change of the bending or rising state of the human body can be arranged on the exoskeleton, for example, an angle sensor is arranged between the rotating unit 6 and the inner plate 5 or the outer plate 8, or an inertia element (a gyroscope and an accelerometer) is arranged on the 1 shoulder/chest sheath or the 2 supporting rod or the 6 rotating unit, the angle and the angular acceleration of the exoskeleton supporting rod can be detected through the angle sensor or the inertia element, and the part is in contact with the human body, so that whether the human body is in the rising or bending state can be obtained. When the human body is detected to bend, the power output part in the active power assisting unit drives the rotating unit to rotate along the human body bending direction so as to reduce resistance, and when the human body is detected to rise, the power output part drives the rotating unit to rotate along the human body rising direction so as to provide power assistance. Therefore, the active power assisting unit and the passive power assisting unit play a role together, so that the moment can be greatly improved, and the power assisting size can be effectively adjusted.
In this example, it is right to use flexible rope as energy storage spare, use the motor as power take off spare as the example the utility model discloses technical scheme does further detailed description:
as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the fixed unit in the passive booster unit includes an inner plate 5, an outer plate 8, a main shaft 16 and a plurality of support columns 15; the two ends of a main shaft 16 are respectively fixed on an inner plate 5 and an outer plate 8, the main shaft 16 is provided with a shaft sleeve 17, a rotating unit 6 comprises a rotating frame 6-1, an inner tensioning disc 6-2, an outer tensioning disc 6-3 and a plurality of tensioning columns 6-4, the rotating frame 6-1 is hinged with the main shaft 16 (the middle part of the rotating frame is provided with the shaft sleeve 17 to reduce friction), the rotating frame 6-1 is fixedly connected with the inner tensioning disc 6-2, the outer tensioning disc 6-3 and a support rod 2, the plurality of tensioning columns 6-4 are uniformly distributed between the outer edges of the inner tensioning disc 6-2 and the outer tensioning disc 6-3, a plurality of support columns 15 are fixed between the inner plate 5 and the outer plate 8, flexible ropes (not shown in the figure) are connected between the support columns 15 and the tensioning columns 6-4, the rotating unit 6 is provided with transfer holes 6-5, an active power assisting unit 7 is fixed on the outer plate 8 through screws (not shown in the figure), and the transmission pin 14 on the output shaft of the motor is matched and fixed with the transmission hole 6-5 on the rotating unit 6, so that the rotating unit 6 can rotate along with the rotation of the motor, and further, the output force is actively provided for the support rod 2.
When a person bends down, the supporting rod 2 is driven to rotate through the shoulder/chest sheath 1, then the rotating unit 6 drives the inner tensioning disc 6-2 and the outer tensioning disc 6-3 to rotate around the main shaft 16, along with the relative rotation of the rotating unit and the fixing unit, the flexible rope connected between the supporting column 15 and the tensioning column 6-4 is stretched to store energy, and because the inner plate 5 and the outer plate 8 are in contact with the front side of the thigh of the person through the leg connecting rod 11 and the leg sheath 12 and cannot rotate along with the traction of the flexible rope, the trunk of the person can receive the restoring acting force stored in the flexible rope by the exoskeleton after bending down so as to reduce the stress on the waist, and meanwhile, the active assisting unit can also actively provide waist assisting force.
In addition, a limit column 13 can be arranged on the passive power-assisted exoskeleton for limiting the rotation angle of the rotating unit relative to the fixing unit.
The output torque of the exoskeleton of the utility model can be adjusted in real time according to the weight of the transported object; the waist assisting exoskeleton can store the energy of a person when the person bends over, so that the torque required by the active assisting unit can be much smaller than that of a waist assisting exoskeleton only provided with an active driving system, the production cost and the weight and the volume of a product can be greatly reduced, and the waist assisting exoskeleton is light in structure and convenient to use.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and although the present invention has been disclosed with the preferred embodiments, it is not limited to the present invention, and any skilled person in the art can make some modifications or equivalent changes without departing from the technical scope of the present invention.

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1. An active and passive combined waist assisting exoskeleton is characterized by comprising a waist fixing piece, a left supporting rod, a right supporting rod, a leg connecting rod and a power unit, wherein the left supporting rod and the right supporting rod are respectively arranged on the waist fixing piece; the waist mounting is used for being fixed in the waist with whole device, and power pack is fixed in on the waist mounting, and shank connecting rod and power pack fixed connection are located human thigh front side, and the bracing piece is located human preceding shoulder or chest, power pack is including initiative helping hand unit and passive helping hand unit, the lower extreme and the power pack of bracing piece are connected and can rotate for rotation center by power pack, and power pack releases energy when the human body stands up and gives the waist helping hand when the human body bends over, the bracing piece on be provided with shoulder/chest sheath, the shank connecting rod on be provided with the shank sheath.
2. The active-passive combined waist power assisting exoskeleton as claimed in claim 1, wherein the passive power assisting unit comprises an energy storage member, a rotating unit and a fixing unit, the fixing unit is fixed on the waist fixing member and fixed with the leg connecting rods, the rotating unit can rotate relative to the fixing unit, the supporting rod is fixed with the rotating unit, and two ends of the energy storage member are respectively connected with the rotating unit and the fixing unit; when a human body bends down, the energy storage piece deforms along with the rotation of the rotating unit to store energy, and when the human body rises, the energy storage piece recovers to release energy to assist the waist.
3. The active-passive combination lumbar assist exoskeleton of claim 2 wherein the active assist unit comprises a power take-off having an output fixed to the rotating unit of the passive assist unit.
4. The active-passive combination waist assisting exoskeleton as claimed in claim 3, wherein a sensor for detecting the change of the bending or rising state of the human body is further arranged on the exoskeleton, when the bending of the human body is detected, the power output part in the active assisting unit drives the rotating unit to rotate along the bending direction of the human body so as to reduce the resistance, and when the rising of the human body is detected, the power output part drives the rotating unit to rotate along the rising direction of the human body so as to provide the assisting power.
5. The active-passive combination lumbar assist exoskeleton of claim 3 wherein the power output in the active assist unit comprises an electric motor or a hydraulic drive or a pneumatic device.
6. The active-passive combination lumbar assist exoskeleton of claim 2 wherein the energy storage member in the passive power unit comprises a spring, elastic band, flexible rope, damper or other device for storing energy through deformation.
7. The active-passive combination lumbar assist exoskeleton of claim 2 wherein the fixed units in the passive assist units comprise an inner plate, an outer plate, a main shaft and a number of support columns; the inner plate is fixed on the waist fixing piece, the outer plate and the inner plate are arranged oppositely, the main shaft is arranged between the inner plate and the outer plate and is vertically fixed with the inner plate, and the rotating unit is sleeved on the main shaft so as to rotate relative to the main shaft; the outer plate and the inner plate are fixed through a plurality of supporting columns and screws, one end of the energy storage piece is connected with the rotating unit, and the other end of the energy storage piece is connected with any supporting column.
8. The active-passive combination lumbar assist exoskeleton of claim 2 wherein the rotating unit in the passive assist unit comprises a rotating frame, an inner tension disc, an outer tension disc, a plurality of tension columns; the rotating frame is sleeved on the fixing unit through a shaft sleeve and can rotate relative to the fixing unit, the inner tensioning disc and the outer tensioning disc are respectively fixed on two sides of the rotating frame, and two ends of the tensioning column are respectively and vertically fixed with the inner tensioning disc and the outer tensioning disc; the support rod is fixedly connected with the rotating frame; one end of the energy storage piece is connected with the fixing unit, and the other end of the energy storage piece is connected with any tensioning column.
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