HAPTICS APPARATUS

• Main Authors: FUJIWARA TAKESHI, YONEHARA YUJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 22.08.2019
• Subjects: AMUSEMENTS; CALCULATING; CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; FOR PERFORMING MECHANICAL WORK IN GENERAL; GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; GENERATING OR TRANSMITTING MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS IN GENERAL; HUMAN NECESSITIES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR GENERATING OR TRANSMITTING MECHANICALVIBRATIONS OF INFRASONIC, SONIC, OR ULTRASONIC FREQUENCY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; SPORTS; TRANSPORTING; VIDEO GAMES

To provide a haptics apparatus capable of suitably transmitting vibration to a flexible skin thereof.SOLUTION: An apparatus body 10 of a haptics apparatus comprises a flexible skin 11, an actuator 12 provided in the skin 11 for generating vibration, and a large number of transmission particles 13 filled in the skin 11. In the haptics apparatus, the transmission particles are preferably composed of a resin foam. In the haptics apparatus, the actuator is preferably a dielectric actuator having a dielectric layer composed of a dielectric elastomer and electrode layers composed of an electrical conduction elastomer and sandwiching the dielectric layer.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】可撓性の外皮に対して好適に振動を伝えることができるハプティクス機器を提供する。【解決手段】ハプティクス機器の機器本体１０は、可撓性の外皮１１と、外皮１１内に設けられ、振動を発生するアクチュエータ１２と、外皮１１内に充填された多数の伝達粒子１３とを備える。上記ハプティクス機器において、前記伝達粒子は発泡樹脂からなることが好ましい。上記ハプティクス機器において、前記アクチュエータは、誘電エラストマーからなる誘電層と、導電エラストマーからなり、前記誘電層を挟む電極層と、を有する誘電アクチュエータであることが好ましい。【選択図】図２