Thumb mechanism of underactuated self-adaptive hand prosthesis
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Applications(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- HARBIN INST OF TECH
- Publication Date
- 2006-07-19
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
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Abstract
Description
Technical field
[0001] The invention relates to an anthropomorphic robot hand. Background technique
[0002] Most existing prosthetic hand thumbs only have one direction of gripping movement. Such a thumb must be set perpendicular to the palm of the prosthetic hand. Both in appearance and function, it is very different from the thumb of a real human hand. It is also for this reason that many disabled people who need to install prosthetic hands are unwilling to use prosthetic hands. According to surveys, more than half of disabled people pay more attention to the realistic appearance of prosthetic hands than to their functions. It can be said that this is a big bottleneck in the current design of prosthetic hands. Contents of the invention
[0003] The purpose of the present invention is to provide an under-actuated adaptive prosthetic hand thumb mechanism to solve the problem that most existing prosthetic hand thumbs have only one direction of grasping movement. The inve...