Patents Examined by Marlon R Arce
  • Patent number: 9623554
    Abstract: There is provided a wearable robot able to maintain a balanced state during operations thereof. The wearable robot includes: a wearable robot body; a travel unit for moving the wearable robot body; and a hip joint unit provided in the wearable robot body and coupled to the travel unit, for maintaining a posture of the wearable robot body in response to a movement of the travel unit. With this construction, the wearable robot is provided with a hip joint unit having a resilient force such that a posture of a wearable robot body can be maintained during an operation of the hip joint unit, so that the robot can be operated more stably. Further, because a posture of the wearable robot can be stably maintained so that the safety of the user can be guaranteed and operation efficiency can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Ho Yu, Kyung-Lyong Han, Il-Seop Choi