| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research targets to systematically evaluate the thermal characteristics of donning upper limb prosthetic socket on the residual limb. The discomfort of donning upper limb prosthetic socket is the most popular reason of canceling the use of upper limb prosthesis. To reduce the discomfort, we considered the effect of inner socket temperature and humidity change to be the major indicator and experimentally measured and evaluated the condition in relation to multimodal biological signals. The experiments were conducted with non-amputee subjects and donned a quasi-transradial prosthesis socket and measured under controlled room temperature and humidity. Furthermore, to investigate dimensional and material effect of the socket, cylinder heat source labware was designed and used for evaluation.
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