716 results about "Hand palms" patented technology

The present invention is a fingertip massaging glove; particularly, a glove massager to facilitate a user in operation according to his preference. The glove massager includes a glove 10 fit out one's hand for vibration, a vibration device 20 enclosed inside of the glove 10 includes a panel 21 with an interface 21h displayed on a hand back of the glove 10, a number of eccentric vibrators 23 connected to the panel 21 by leads 22. A set of batteries 21g are disposed inside the panel 21 to supplement power to the glove. When the vibrators are powered to vibrate, affected part of a user can be relieved pain or sore. Furthermore, a second side of the glove includes palm, fingertips portions embossed with grip dots has a depth deeper than a normal breadth of the glove.

A portable electronic device (100) has a long sideways housing (10) whose both ends are held by the hands of a user and an LCD fitted in the surface of the housing (10). Bulges (42L, 42R) projecting outward are formed on both end portions of the rear face of the housing (10), which both end portions being held by fingers of the user holding the housing. When the fingers and palms of user's hands are placed along the bulges (42L, 42R) with the fingers and palms bent naturally, the device fits the hands and operability is less likely to be impaired even the user violently moves in game play with the device.

Disclosed are a robot, a robot hand, and a method of controlling the robot hand, in which the robot hand rapidly and correctly approaches an object to be gripped and safely grips the object regardless of the shape and material of the object. The method of controlling a robot hand, which has a palm, and a plurality of fingers, each having a plurality of segments, connected to the palm, includes causing the palm to approach an object using at least one first distance sensor installed on the palm; causing the plurality of fingers to approach the object using at least one second distance sensor installed on the plurality of fingers; and causing the palm and the plurality of fingers to come into contact the object to grip the object.

A system and method for automatically computing desirable palm grasp configurations of an object by a robotic hand is disclosed. A description of the object's surface is obtained. A grasp configuration of a robotic hand comprising a palm and one or more fingers is selected, which specifies a hand configuration and joint variables of the hand, and a plurality of contact points on the object's surface for the palm and fingers. The coefficient of friction at each of the contact points is determined, and a description of one or more external wrenches to which may apply to the object is acquired. The ability of the robotic hand to hold the object against the external wrenches in the selected configuration is then computed. In some embodiments, a plurality of grasp configurations may be compared to determine which are the most desirable. In other embodiments, the space of hand configurations, or the smaller space of palm contact configurations, may be searched to find the most desirable grasp configurations.

A fitted glove structure that incorporates a molded rubber palm piece that has a portion which extends over certain of the glove fingertips to the back piece in a manner to increase wearer comfort and protection and to enhance the object pick up capabilities of the glove.

A robot hand has a plurality of fingers and is provided, at a location at which the robot hand touches an object, with a moving means for touching the object and moving the object. The moving means is provided to the palm side of the robot hand and/or the finger pad side of the robot hand.

An end effector module includes a palm base and robotic fingers extended from the palm base. Each robotic finger is composed of four joint shafts pivotally coupled with one another, and one of the four joint shafts, namely a start joint shaft, has a driving mechanism for driving a corresponding robotic finger to rotate, and each joint shaft has a driving mechanism to drive a next corresponding joint shaft to turn pivotally and bend with respect to other corresponding joint shafts, so that each robotic finger is module with four degrees of freedom for fine-tuning the position of a suction device installed at an end joint shaft, and the suction device can move along the normal direction of a suction point selected on the surface of a clamped object to achieve the effect of clamping and sucking an object securely without the risk of being loosened easily.

A glove for use by a soccer goalie includes several adjustment mechanisms, such as straps. The straps allow the glove to be adjusted for fit, such as by manipulating the width of the glove across the palm or the size of the wrist opening. Additionally, the glove includes a pull tab that allows the wearer to adjust the position of the fingers of the hand within the glove quickly so that the webs of the fingers remain in contact with the inside of the glove at the bases of the finger stalls.

A work glove particularly useful for gardening, automobile mechanical work and any other type of use which brings the palmar side of the hand in contact with work or the like which may result in stinging, bruising, or blistering of the fingers, thumb and palm of a human hand is provided with protective padding disclosed or positioned for overlying at least the distal halves of the index finger and long finger metacarpals excluding the metacarpalphalangeal joints of the index finger and the long finger. Preferably, the glove also includes protective padding disposed along a thumb stall of the glove at a location adapted to be along an ulnar border as well as the A2 pulleys of the thumb's proximal phalanx between the metacarpalphalangeal joint and the interphalangeal joint.

An anthropomorphic multi-finger hand device for robot is composed of palm, thumb, forefinger, middle finger, ring finger, little finger, root joint for thumb and the root joints for other fingers. The root joints are active ones driven by motors. Each finger has three joints, and the joints have 11 degrees of freedom in total. All the other joints are under-driven ones. Its advantages are highly integrated level, easy control, small size and light weight.

An improved sports glove covering the index finger, middle finger, thumb, a portion of the palm, and a portion of the wrist of a human hand is disclosed. The pinky finger and ring finger, and a portion of the palm and a portion of the dorsal side of the hand are left uncovered with the glove of the present invention, which allows for greater aeration throughout the glove during use and greater control when gripping a sporting implement such as a tennis racquet handle, a golf club handle, or the like.

An anthropometric multi-finger hand of robot is composed of palm, the first and the second knuckles of thumb and forefinger, and the first and the second joints of thumb and forefinger. The said palmand knuckles are hollow for installing joint and motor driver in them. Its advantages include fewer number of drivers, easy control small size, light weight and several actions.

The invention discloses an under-actuated prosthetic hand capable of reproducing a hand grasping function; the under-actuated prosthetic hand is provided with an interphalangeal drive mechanism and a thumb drive mechanism in a palm; finger bodies take pulleys as main parts, and transmission mechanisms arranged in fingers are sequentially and alternately wound on all the pulleys of the fingers by steel wire ropes; joints in the fingers are in flexible coupling by elastic components; the interphalangeal drive mechanism adopts two motors to drive four fingers and multiple degrees of freedom of the fingers in a synergetic way; a thumb body takes a pulley as a main part, the transmission mechanisms in the finger bodies take transmission ropes as transmission mediums, the interphalangeal drive mechanism adopts a gear component for transmission matching, and the four degrees of freedom of the thumb can be controlled by two motors. After the under-actuated prosthetic hand is adopted, self-adaptive grasping of various objects can be accurately completed, and the rich grasping operation function of a human hand can be reproduced; the under-actuated prosthetic hand has the characteristics of being compact in structure, smaller in size, lighter in weight, convenient to control, accurate in grasping action, and the like.

The present invention pertains to a weighted sports glove that improves the strength, quickness and agility of a soccer goalie. More particularly, the present invention pertains to a soccer goalie glove where one or more weights can be selectively added to and/or removed from the glove during training, and the same glove can subsequently be worn during competition. The glove includes one or more pockets that can selectively receive different weights for use in different training sessions and/or by goalies that have different skill levels or relative strengths and/or are different sizes or ages. The glove also has a layer of material along its palm-side to help in gripping a soccer ball, as well as rigid members in finger portions to mitigate hyper-extending digits. The one or more weights are located within the glove for optimal biomechanical advantage. In particular, the weights are located on a back portion of the hand to facilitate resistive training to strengthen desired body parts (e.g., shoulders, forearms, wrists, upper arms). The location of the weights thus enhances responsiveness, dexterity and hand eye coordination, while improving stamina of the muscles controlling movement of the hand, particularly when the weighted glove is worn during practice and the goalie repeatedly goes through particular training movements.

A high-breathability hand glove for use over a bicycle handlebar by a cyclist, said glove including an exposed perforated palm area (12) and a few cushioning pads (16, 18) surrounding said palm area, said cushioning pads (16, 18) being closedly spaced from one another so as to define at least a few air channels being formed radially therebetween, said air channels for evacuating bodily moisture escaping from said perforated palm area, each one of said air channels (20, 22) destined to be narrower than the diameter of the bicycle handlebar so that the bicycle handlebar cannot close said air channels upon the hand globe hand engaging the biclycle handlebar.

A batting glove particularly for baseball and softball includes padding along the palmar side of at least the proximal ends of the metacarpals of the ring finger and the small finger. Padding is absent over the hook of the hamate and preferably the carpometacarpal joints of the ring finger and the small finger.

A massage device which substantially mirrors the hardness and deformation characteristics of the human thumb or palm and is particularly effective in relieving tender and painful muscle and connective tissue conditions, including but not limited to trigger points, foot ailments and leg and arm ailments such as carpel tunnel syndrome. The massage device typically includes an elongated, resilient massage body. A pair of spaced-apart wheels is provided on the massage body to facilitate rolling the device on a surface. The wheels of the massage device may be rolled in a back-and-forth motion on a flat surface as the afflicted area or areas on an arm, leg, foot or other part of a user's body is pressed against the resilient massage body to substantially alleviate pain and discomfort associated with muscle or connective tissue conditions.

The invention discloses a humanoid flexible mechanism arm device which comprises five fingers which are driven by six motors. Modular structures with same structures are adopted on four fingers (an index finger, a middle finger, a third finger and a little finger). Special effects of finger coupling transmission are achieved by a manner that the one motor, a reduction gearbox, a transmission mechanism and a flexible body are comprehensively utilized on the modular fingers. A thumb is driven by two motors, a pair of duplex bevel gears and a cross-shaped shaft are applied on a base joint transmission system to achieve buckling and side-sway movements, and good transmission effects and arrangement of the thumb and a palm are achieved. Each finger is provided with three joints which include a base joint, a middle joint and a far joint, the speed ratio is close to 1: 1: 1, and the mechanical arm is enabled to be close to a movement pattern of a hand. The humanoid flexible mechanical arm device has the advantages of being large in fingertip output force and rigidity, compact in structural arrangement, high in humanization degree, stable in grab and the like.

A flexible waterproof scrubbing glove having a plurality of cavities for the thumb and fingers joined together to fit a person's hand. A layer of scrubbing bristles built into the entire palm surface and finger surface of the glove including the tips of the finger and thumb stalls, along the sides of the finger and thumb stalls, as well as along the side of the palm portion of the glove. The invention facilitating the cleaning of bath tubs and sinks with their awkward and hard to reach places as well as other surfaces and other cleaning actions.

A multi-fingered robot hand having a minimum required number of joints in finger mechanisms and capable of stably grasping a variety of articles. The multi-fingered robot hand includes: a first palm portion (8) provided with three finger mechanisms (2, 3, 4) each connected by a root joint (12); a second palm portion (9) provided with one finger mechanism (1) connected by a root joint (13); and a palm joint (10) connecting the first palm portion (8) and the second palm portion (9). The palm joint (10) permits a variation in the connection angle of the second palm portion (9) to the first palm portion (8). The palm joint (10), bending joints (5), bending joints (6) of the root joints (12) and the root joint (13) have rotation axes parallel to each other, and the finger mechanisms (1, 2, 3, 4) bend while turning around the rotation axes.

The present invention relates to a glove with a seamless palm portion used when gripping a sporting implement. The glove is used when additional pressure points caused by seams between the user's hand and a sporting implement is a common problem. A method and apparatus for reducing the seams in a glove palm portion while also reducing glove bunching is provided according to various embodiments. The seamless glove palm portion is located substantially over boney pillars of the palmar-side of the hand in order to direct even pressure and/or force caused by the handlebar while cycling or gripping to one or more boney pillars of the hand, rather than creating additional pressure points on the hands.

The invention discloses upper limb rehabilitant robot fingers and a wrist training device. The device comprises an installation base, a wrist rotary movement mechanism and a finger gripping and stretching exercise mechanism, wherein the wrist rotary movement mechanism is driven by a first servo motor through a two-stage reducing mechanism; a first-stage reducing mechanism is a gear reducer and is arranged on the front end of the first servo motor; a second-stage reducing mechanism is formed by intertwining a shaft sleeve and a rotary semi-circular ringthrough steel wire ropes and is located on the front end of the first-stage reducing mechanism; the first servo motor is arranged on the installation base; the finger gripping and stretching exercise mechanism is driven by a second servo motor through a two-stage reducing mechanism; a first-stage reducing mechanism is a gear reducer and is arranged on the front end of the second servo motor; the second servo motor is arranged on a palm support plate; the palm support plate is fixed on the rotary semi-circular ring of the wrist rotary movement mechanism. The wrist training device provided by the invention is simple in structure and strong in functionality.

Disclosed herein is a golf glove. The golf glove includes a finger part, a back hand part, a palm part and an opening. The finger part includes a thumb part, a forefinger part, a middle finger part, a ring finger part and a little finger part. The back hand part and the palm part are connected to the finger part and cover the palm and back of the hand of a user. The opening is defined by the back hand part and the palm part. The finger part has at least one cut portion formed by stitching fabric portions on opposite sides of a cut formed in a bottom of a knuckle portion of the finger part. The cut portion can have various shapes. Frictional force between the golf glove and a grip of a golf club can be enhanced by the cut portion.

A gunn cut glove construction in which a pre-curvature at selected locations, preferably around the joints, in the fingers is achieved by sewing wedges of material into cut portions of the gunn section so that the shortened fingers and larger back sections easily meet at and can be joined without the need to gather or moccasin material resulting in the shape of the finger being such that it curves forward towards the palm section. Increased volume at the fingertips of a gunn cut construction glove is achieved by darting the palm side pieces of fingers proximate the fingertips. In addition, to reduce the inflexibility of gloves when curled into a fist, an elliptical piece is removed from the palm portion of the glove and the sides of the elliptical piece are sewn together along a seam.

A glove comprises at least one elasticized opening located on the palm side of the glove and generally around an area corresponding to the first joint of either a finger or thumb. In use, a user wears the glove conventionally until the user needs to perform a task requiring additional dexterity and tactile feedback. The user then pulls the elasticized opening around a finger or thumb to expose the digit for use. The elasticized opening may be pushed down around the digit joint for comfort and unencumbered operation. If the user no longer needs the digit exposed, the elasticized opening is pulled back up around the digit. In an embodiment of the invention, the elasticized opening includes an elastic band within the elasticized stitching to bias the opening in a closed configuration. A stretchy insert is used to support the elasticized opening in materials such as leather, etc.

The invention provides a multi-finger flexible hand of a robot based on a pneumatic flexible driver, which comprises five fingers and a palm, wherein five finger mounting seats are arranged inside the palm; the five fingers are a thumb, a forefinger, a middle finger, a ring finger and a little finger respectively; a bent joint comprises the pneumatic flexible driver, a hinge rotary pair and two positioning plates; two sides of the hinge rotary pair are fixedly connected with the positioning plates; a front end closure and a rear end closure of the pneumatic flexible driver are fixedly connected with the two positioning plates; a side-sway joint comprises two pneumatic flexible drivers and an axial telescopic hinge; the axial telescopic hinge is a telescopic rotary pair formed by two movable components through a gain structure; the movable components are connected with front end closures and rear end closures of the pneumatic flexible drivers; and axial lines of the two pneumatic flexible drivers are parallel and vertical to the axial line of a hinge pin roll. The multi-finger flexible hand has the advantages of simple structure, good flexibility and good applicability.

An improved bracelet article is disclosed having a closed loop section adapted to be worn upon the wrist of a wearer and a continuous extension arm releasably connected about the loop section and extendable therefrom to engage a finger ring on the hand of the wearer and prevent its loss during physical activity. The closed loop section and the extension arm are integrally constructed from an elastic cord material threaded through a series of bead members arranged in a selected design pattern, the outer end of the extension arm having a clip member attached thereto. Under normal conditions, the extension arm is wrapped about the loop section and fastened thereto to provide a decorative bracelet to be worn on the wrist of the wearer. During the course of physical exercise or sports activity, the extension arm and its clip member are released from the loop section and stretched, preferably along the palm of the wearer, and fastened to the finger ring to prevent accidental removal and loss.

A protective skin device that may be used to protect the fingers, thumb, and a portion of the hand is provided. The device is configured to be worn about a digit, and the device provides cushioning and aids in gripping. The device includes a sheath with one or more projections, and the sheath may be perforated. The device may include an opening that exposes a joint. The device also may include a palmar pad, which covers a portion of the hand. The device may include multiple sheaths that are connected with a membrane, and multiple devices may be worn on the same or separate digits.

The present invention is to an improved glove having both anatomically correlating stress relief zones and/or reinforced zones to add support in areas opposite the stress relief zones to keep bunching or slipping of the glove from interfering with the bending of the user's joints. The glove may have corrugated relief zones over some or all of the joints and knuckles of the hand, wherein the relief zones are formed of peaks and valleys. A relief zone can also be provided over the webbing between the thumb and the palm. The vertical or longitudinal relief zones provide for improved glove quality while keeping manufacturing difficulty and costs at a minimum.

A cycling hand glove includes a main glove element having a palm surface; and a palm pad provided on the palm surface and having at least one aeration aperture therein exposing at least one of the main glove element and the hand of the cyclist inserted into the hand glove.