Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Actuator device
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Application No.: US16547569Application Date: 2019-08-22
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Publication No.: US10815976B2Publication Date: 2020-10-27
- Inventor: Yuriko Kaneko , Maki Hiraoka , Naoki Hayashi , Kenji Tagashira
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@488da457
- Main IPC: F03G7/06
- IPC: F03G7/06

Abstract:
An actuator device comprises an actuator wire, a net-shaped heating element which covers a side surface of the actuator wire and comprises heating wires, and a controller for supplying electric power to the net-shaped heating element to heat the net-shaped heating element. The actuator wire is contracted by application of heat and restored by release of the heat. The side surface of the actuator wire is formed of a polymer. One end of the net-shaped heating element is connected to an end of the actuator wire. Another end of the net-shaped heating element is connected to another end of the actuator wire. Each of the heating wires comprises an insulative first elastic yarn and a metal wire. The metal wire are helically wound onto the first elastic yarn. When the net-shaped heating element is not heated, the net-shaped heating element is in contact with the side surface of the actuator wire. When the net-shaped heating element is heated, the net-shaped heating element moves outward from the side surface of the actuator wire due to contraction of the actuator wire.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190376495A1 ACTUATOR DEVICE Public/Granted day:2019-12-12
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