Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1996-01-17
1997-04-15
Cosimano, Edward R.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
364550, 36441301, 128781, 128782, G01G 1944
Patent
active
056216670
ABSTRACT:
A lift task analysis system includes a sensor having a retractable cable grasped by the hands of a participant. The participant moves in accordance with a selected lifting task and, in doing so, move the cable end correspondingly. The sensor generates an output indicative of a location of the mid-point of the participant's hands holding the cable end with respect to that sensor, i.e., a position of the end of the extended cable. The sensor is attached to the housing of an analysis device which includes an input for receiving user/selected parameters. The housing also includes a control processor with means for determining a recommended weight limit and means for determining a lifting index. These determinations are made based upon user-selected input and NIOSH equation multipliers automatically determined through the use of the sensor. The system also includes a memory for storing the lifting index and the recommended weight limit for a plurality of different lifting tasks, as well as other data relevant to those lifting tasks.
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Cosimano Edward R.
The United States of America as represented by the Department of
Wachsman Hal D.
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