Tactile displays hydrostatically-coupled actuators

Tactile Displays Based on Hydrostatically Coupled Actuators. 746... 

Fig. 8 (a) Schematic illustration of a hydrostatically coupled actuator a DBA membrane (A) is coupled to a chamber containing a fluid (B) which provides electrical insulation and hydraulic transmission for driving a tactile surface (Q (b) example of a prototype display ((b) Reproduced with permission from Lee et al. 2014)... 

Carpi F, Frediani G, De Rossi D (2010) Hydrostatically coupled dielectric elastomer actuators for tactile displays and cutaneous stimulators. EAPAD 2010, Proc SPIE 7642 76420E-1-76420E-6. doi 10.1117/12.847562... 

Some designs for DBA tactile displays are based on the hydrostatically coupled configuration (Carpi et al. 2010). As illustrated in Fig. 8, a circular patch of DE film is constrained by a rigid frame. Actuation that thins and expands the film makes it... 

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