SKIN SENSIBILITY INDICATION DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a skin sensibility indication device capable of expressing more exact tactile sensation with simple structure.

SOLUTION: A flexible thin film mover 11 is arranged on a stator 1 having a stripe shaped (or matrix shaped) electrode 3 and a voltage is applied between the thin film mover 11 and the electrode 3 of the stator 1 to generate electrostatic suction power. The tactile sensation corresponding to an intended rough feel and a slick feel is presented by applying various continuous pulse waves to the stripe shaped electrode 3 and by moving a finger 21 of an operator with touching on the thin film mover 11. The relative change of mutual electric potential distribution is substituted with the change of the electrostatic power and the simulated experience as if touching the unevenness surface with the finger 21 of the operator is obtained.

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