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US 12,178,698 B2Granted
Artificial skin
AssigneeNokia Technologies Oy
InventorsShreyas Shah, Mingde Zheng
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Abstract
The application relates to an apparatus which comprises at least one portion of artificial skin (103) and a plurality of sensors (105) dispersed within the at least one portion of artificial skin (103). The plurality of sensors (105) have at least one physical property which is configured to be modified when the plurality of sensors (105) are exposed to a parameter such that the modification of the physical property can be detected by an external detector (211). The application also relates to detection systems comprising such apparatus.
Claims14
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one portion of artificial skin;
- a plurality of light-detectable sensors dispersed within the at least one portion of artificial skin;
- wherein types of light-detectable sensors of the plurality of light-detectable sensors have at least one physical property which is configured to be modified when the types of light-detectable sensors are exposed to a parameter such that the modification of the physical property can be detected by an external detector, wherein the types of light-detectable sensors comprise defined edges having contrast with the artificial skin and the at least one physical property configured to be modified is a degradation of the defined edges;
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- wherein the types of light-detectable sensors are configured to provide an output optical signal that is dependent upon the degradation of the defined edges.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.