Patent ID: 8303523

Claim:
A walking assist device having a load transmit portion, a ground contacting portion and a leg link disposed between the load transmit portion and the ground contacting portion, the walking assist device configured such that at least a part of a user's body weight is supported by the leg link through the load transmit portion, wherein the ground contacting portion is composed of a footboard adapted to support a shoe thereon, said footboard having an MP joint supporting portion configured to be disposed directly below a user's MP joint when the shoe is supported on the footboard, said MP joint supporting portion being only that portion of the footboard disposed directly below the user's MP joint when the shoe is supported on the footboard; and the footboard is provided with a connection member for connecting with the leg link, and front and rear holding members configured to stably hold the shoe in an anteroposterior direction on the footboard, said front holding member composed of a pair of laterally-disposed bands and disposed in a forward direction relative to the MP joint supporting portion of the footboard so as to be disposed between the MP joint supporting portion and a front end of the footboard in an anteroposterior direction, the pair of laterally-disposed bands of the front holding member configured to be tiled on a front vamp portion of the shoe to hold the front vamp portion of the shoe.