Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Deformable sensor system
- Patent Title (中): 变形传感器系统
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Application No.: US12115928Application Date: 2008-05-06
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Publication No.: US08149211B2Publication Date: 2012-04-03
- Inventor: Tomonori Hayakawa , Tetsuyoshi Shibata , Rentaro Kato , Kazunobu Hashimoto , Yo Kato , Toshiharu Mukai
- Applicant: Tomonori Hayakawa , Tetsuyoshi Shibata , Rentaro Kato , Kazunobu Hashimoto , Yo Kato , Toshiharu Mukai
- Applicant Address: JP Komaki-shi JP Wako-shi
- Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.,Riken
- Current Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.,Riken
- Current Assignee Address: JP Komaki-shi JP Wako-shi
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2007-156769 20070613
- Main IPC: G06F3/045
- IPC: G06F3/045

Abstract:
A deformable sensor system that can be used for pressure-distribution sensors. The deformable sensor system makes it possible to obtain a pressure distribution with a much higher accuracy, while reducing the number of electrodes. The system utilizes a deformable sensor which can detect deformation as the electric resistivity of the surface increases monotonically as an elastic deformation variation in each of the elastic deformations increases. Based on a voltage being detected by means of a detecting unit, the deformable sensor electric-resistivity variation computing unit computes the variation of the electric resistivity based on the method of least squares with a restriction condition imposed thereon. The system uses such a technology as “EIT” that is based on an inverse-problem theory. At an external-force position computing unit, a position in a pressure-receiving surface, position which receives an external force, is computed based on the computed electric-resistivity variation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090120696A1 DEFORMABLE SENSOR SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2009-05-14
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