2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Development of a racing ski boots for winning a medal in the winter Olympic games
| Project/Area Number |
26420191
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Intelligent mechanics/Mechanical systems
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| Research Institution | Kitami Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | アルペンスキー競技 / スキーブーツ / フットベッド / 内傾角度 / 内傾角速度 / 荷重移動 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Skiing is hopeful for lifelong sports because of utilizing gravity rather than muscular power. This study aims at recovery of the popularity of skiing, and familiarize of skiing as lifelong winter sports. It is expected that the world-level success of the alpine ski racer becomes reason of the recovery.In this study, design of a footbed of a racig ski boot was optimized according to the track of weight shift of a ski athlete during the turn motion. It was demonstrated that rolling of the footbed by a small chip which was developped in this study accelerated the lean motion of a ski athlete. Consequently, the finish time of the ski race could be shortened with large lean angle of the athlete by using a newly designed small chip set on the bottom of a footbed. Finally, this chip was commercialized to the winter sports market, and a patent for the chip was applied.
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| Free Research Field |
ロボット工学
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