Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Detecting muscle electrical signal
Reexamination Certificate
2004-09-16
2009-02-03
Hindenburg, Max (Department: 3736)
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Detecting muscle electrical signal
C340S576000, C180S313000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07486987
ABSTRACT:
A work comfort evaluating device is a device for evaluating a level of comfort of work by measuring myoelectric potentials of plural muscles when the work is done by antagonistic activities of the muscles. The device has a pair of detecting sensors, an amplifier, a signal processing part, a work-load intensity calculating part, and an evaluation part. The sensors sense myoelectric potentials of the muscles at a time of the work. The signal processing part calculates a synchronous contraction intensity of the muscles by using myoelectric potential waveforms. The work-load intensity calculating part calculates a level of a work load intensity in the work. The evaluation part evaluates a level of comfort of the work by normalizing the synchronous contraction intensity by the level of the work load intensity calculated.
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Kamijo Masayoshi
Koguchi Noritaka
Kuramori Akira
Sadoyama Tsugutake
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner L.L.P.
Hindenburg Max
Pani John
The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd.
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