Patent ID: 7931573

Claim:
An exercise assisting apparatus comprising: a seat having a contact surface configured to support thereon buttocks of a user with the user's feet resting on a predetermined foot supporting surface; a driving source; a seat driving section configured to use the driving source and displace said seat in a direction of varying the user's weight acting on the user's legs; an elevator mechanism configured to regulate a position of said contact surface of the seat in order to keep a user's knee bending angle at a prescribed angle while the user is sitting on the seat held at a reference position with the user's feet placed on a predetermined position on said predetermined foot supporting surface; a manipulator section configured to instruct the position of said contact surface of the seat to be regulated by said elevator mechanism; and an elevator controller configured to control said elevator mechanism for regulating the position of said seat in accordance with an instruction of said manipulator section; wherein said manipulator section comprises: a plurality of physique designating sections configured to select one of physique classes classified according to a predetermined physiques of the user; and a moving direction instructing section configured to instruct a direction of moving said seat, and wherein said elevator controller comprises: a data memory configured to store a relationship between each of the physique classes and a position of the elevator mechanism corresponding to the position of said seat; a position adjusting section configured to move said elevator mechanism to the position determined in said data memory as associated with physique class designated by said physique designating section; and a position modifying section configured to move said elevator mechanism in a direction instructed by said moving direction instructing section and while said direction is being instructed.