Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sensor device and stretchable structure
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Application No.: US15123067Application Date: 2015-03-02
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Publication No.: US10209055B2Publication Date: 2019-02-19
- Inventor: Hideo Otaka , Keizo Nonaka , Yasuhiro Sako , Yuki Abe
- Applicant: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Kobe-Shi, Hyogo
- Assignee: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kobe-Shi, Hyogo
- Agency: Osha Liang LLP
- Priority: JP2014-040292 20140303
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/056038 WO 20150302
- International Announcement: WO2015/133417 WO 20150911
- Main IPC: G01B7/16
- IPC: G01B7/16 ; A61B5/11 ; G01D5/241

Abstract:
A sensor device includes a sensor element, a converter, and an output unit. The sensor element includes a sheet-like dielectric layer including an elastomer composition and a top electrode layer and a bottom electrode layer each including an electroconductive composition containing carbon nanotubes. The top and the bottom electrode layers are formed on a top surface and a bottom surface of the dielectric layer, respectively, and are at least partially opposed to each other across the dielectric layer. The at least partially opposed portions of the top and the bottom electrode layers constitute a detection portion, and the dielectric layer reversibly deforms to change an area of a main surface of the dielectric layer. The converter electrically is connected to the sensor element and converts capacitance at the detection portion that varies in accordance with the deformation of the dielectric layer to electric characteristics.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170074636A1 SENSOR DEVICE AND STRETCHABLE STRUCTURE Public/Granted day:2017-03-16
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