Rehabilitation device with pace pattern projecting function and seat structure and control method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9510992-B2
Application number	US-201414555694-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 28, 2014
Priority date	Sep 1, 2014
Publication date	Dec 6, 2016
Grant date	Dec 6, 2016

Abstract

A rehabilitation device with pace pattern projecting function and seat structure and a control method thereof are provided. The rehabilitation device includes a body with a moving module, a projection device, a first sensor and a control system. The projection device projects pace patterns on a walking plane. The first sensor detects a walking situation of a user on the walking plane. Based on the walking situation detected by the first sensor, the control system adjusts a distance between the rehabilitation device and the user by controlling the moving module and adjusts a position of the pace patterns on the walking plane by controlling the projection device. Moreover, a movable seat mechanism is also disposed on the rear of the rehabilitation device. The user can sit down on the movable seat mechanism and towards the front of the rehabilitation device to rest moderately.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A rehabilitation device, comprising:
a body, having a moving module;
a projection device, disposed on the body, and configured to project at least one pace pattern on a walking plane;
a first sensor, disposed on the body and towards an opposite direction of a predetermined motion direction of the body, and configured to detect a walking situation of a user on the walking plane; and
a control system, disposed on the body, and connected to the projection device and the first sensor,
wherein based on the walking situation detected by the first sensor, the control system adjusts a distance between the rehabilitation device and the user by controlling the moving module and adjusts a position of the at least one pace pattern on the walking plane by controlling the projection device.

2. The rehabilitation device of claim 1 , wherein the first sensor is a first image capturing device, and the control system receives an image captured on the walking plane by the first image capturing device in order to obtain the walking situation of the user.

3. The rehabilitation device of claim 1 , wherein the walking situation of the user comprises one of a spacing distance between the user and the rehabilitation device, a stride length per step of the user, a gait speed of the user, two foot positions of the user, a foot reaction time of the user to the at least one pace pattern, or a combination thereof.

4. The rehabilitation device of claim 1 , wherein when the control system determines that the walking situation of the user matches a preset rehabilitation standard, the control system controls the moving module to move the rehabilitation device by a preset distance towards the predetermined motion direction in order to guide the user to move forward.

5. The rehabilitation device of claim 4 , wherein when the control system determines that the walking situation of the user does not match the preset rehabilitation standard, the control system controls the projection device based on the walking situation to adjust the position of the at least one pace pattern projected on the walking plane for matching to the walking situation of the user.

6. The rehabilitation device of claim 1 , wherein the body further comprises:
a movable seat member, disposed on brackets above rear wheels at two sides of the body.

7. The rehabilitation device of claim 6 , wherein the movable seat member comprises two seat structures opposite to each other, and
each of the seat structures comprises:
a seat portion, having a seat surface and a second surface opposite to the seat surface;
a movable shaft mechanism, connected to the seat portion to enable the seat portion to be unfolded or folded with respect to the body; and
a support portion, connected to the second surface of the seat portion, and configured to support the seat portion by bending the support portion to contact the ground when the seat portion is unfolded by the movable shaft mechanism.

8. The rehabilitation device of claim 1 , wherein the body further comprises a gripping member disposed on the body,
wherein the gripping member comprises:
a pressure sensing unit, connected to the control system to sense a gripping degree of a hand portion of the user with respect to the gripping member; and
a physiological sensing unit, connected to the control system to sense a physiological value of the user.

9. The rehabilitation device of claim 8 , wherein when the control system detects that the physiological value of the user exceeds a preset physiological value range by the physiological sensing unit, the control system controls the moving module to stop moving the rehabilitation device.

10. The rehabilitation device of claim 8 , wherein the control system changes a moving direction of the rehabilitation device when the pressure sensing unit detects that the gripping degree with respect to a left handle or a right handle of the gripping member is greater than a preset pressure value.

11. The rehabilitation device of claim 1 , further comprising:
a second sensor, disposed on the body and towards the predetermined motion direction of the body, and connected to the control system,
wherein the second sensor senses whether an object exists in the predetermined motion direction and determines a distance between the object and the rehabilitation device, so as to generate an object sensing signal and provide the object sensing signal to the control system.

12. The rehabilitation device of claim 11 , wherein the second sensor is an environment map sensor configured to detect obstacles near the rehabilitation device and execute an indoor positioning.

13. The rehabilitation device of claim 1 , further comprising:
a display device, disposed on the body, and configured to provide a multimedia human computer interface to control the rehabilitation device.

Assignees

• Univ Nat Taiwan

Inventors

• Fu Li-Chen
• Lin Cheng-Hsien
• Lim Chung-Dial
• Wang Chia-Ming
• Tseng Shih-Huang

Classifications

• A61H3/04 Primary

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• A63B24/0062

  Monitoring athletic performances, e.g. for determining the work of a user on an exercise apparatus, the completed jogging or cycling distance · CPC title

• A63B2024/0068

  Comparison to target or threshold, previous performance or not real time comparison to other individuals · CPC title

• A63B2220/14

  Geo-tagging, e.g. for correlating route or track location data with specific information related to that specific location · CPC title

• A63B2022/0094

  for active rehabilitation, e.g. slow motion devices · CPC title