Patent ID: 7766793

Claim:
A passive-type exercising device having an exercise assistance mechanism for assisting exercise of a user as well as applying an exercising load to the user by operating in a predetermined operation pattern, comprising: a load setting value acquisition unit for obtaining a load setting value which is a setting value for amplitude of the exercising load applied to the user by the exercise assistance mechanism; an assistance load value derivation unit for deriving an assistance load value indicating amplitude of the exercising load reduced by the exercise assistance mechanism's assisting the exercise of the user; a sensor provided at the exercise assistance mechanism; a sensor value acquisition unit for obtaining a sensor value outputted by the sensor indicating an operation intensity of the exercise assistance mechanism; a combined load value derivation unit for deriving a combined load value which is a combined value of the assistance load value and an effective load value indicating amplitude of an exercising load applied to the user by the user's active exercise based on the sensor value obtained at the sensor value acquisition unit; and an exercise intensity derivation unit for deriving an exercise intensity indicating an exercise intensity of the user based on the effective load value computed as a difference between the assistance load value derived at the assistance load value derivation unit and the combined load value derived at the combined load value derivation unit.