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US 12,229,328 B2Granted
Sensors having a connecting frame and method for composite sensors
AssigneeTactonic Technologies, LLC
InventorsAlex Grau, Charles Hendee, Gerald Seidman, Elliott P. Montgomery
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Abstract
A technique for sensing involving one or more individual sensing tiles that are physically connected to a frame with electrical and communications wiring integrated into the frame and with corresponding physical, electrical and communication connectors on the tiles and the frame.
Claims11
A composite sensor comprising:
- a frame, a plurality of sensor tiles that conform in shape to the frame and snap into place in the frame, that form a sensor surface and connective wiring between the sensor tiles, the plurality of sensor tiles includes a master sensor tile, the connective wiring extends from the master sensor tile to all other sensor tiles of the plurality of sensor tiles.
A method for sensing with a composite sensor comprising the steps of:
- detecting force applied to a sensor surface formed by a plurality of sensor tiles that conform in shape to a frame in which the tiles are disposed and snap into place in the frame, where the surface is contiguous, and detected force can be sensed in a manner that is geometrically continuous and seamless on a surface, the plurality of sensor tiles includes a master sensor tile, the connective wiring extends from the master sensor tile to all other sensor tiles of the plurality of sensor tiles;
- providing a signal corresponding to the force to a computer through connective wiring between the sensor tiles in the frame;
- and producing with the computer from the signal a time varying continuous image of force applied to the surface.
A method for manufacturing a composite sensor comprising the steps of:
- snapping sensor tiles in communication with each other through connective wiring into a frame;
- and connecting a computer to the sensor tiles with the connective wiring, the plurality of sensor tiles includes a master sensor tile, the connective wiring extends from the master sensor tile to all other sensor tiles of the plurality of sensor tiles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.