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Reflex responses play an important role in gravity resistance, balance maintenance and the reaction to perturbation during human walking and standing upright. In this study, aiming at the realization of artificial reflex for paralyzed people, whose reflexive system was also impaired to a certain degree because of the weakened afferent neural pathway, the reflex responses of normal subjects were measured and analyzed. Not only the sensors for measuring muscle activation, but also the sensors for measuring body motion were employed. The spatiotemporal relation between muscle activity and body motion was qualitatively analyzed. Moreover, the candidates for artificial reflex triggering signal were identified for further investigation.
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In this paper, the authors propose a novel electric power supply system for implanted medical devices. The system is noninvasive and uses two kinds of energy, magnetic and ultrasonic. The system can provide high power levels harmlessly. The energies are obtained by two types of vibrator, i.e., piezo and magnetostriction devices. A prototype was built and it was verified experimentally that the system is basically able to provide power. At high frequencies, such as 100 kHz, the output power was higher than the conventional system using a transformer. The normalized output power per unit volume also exceeded the transformer system.
