Multicontact tactile sensor with single-contact idle mode
AssigneeStantum
InventorsPascal Joguet, Guillaume Largillier, Julien Olivier
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Abstract
A multicontact tactile sensor including a matrix formed of two transparent conducting layers, at least one exhibiting an array of fine conducting tracks, a control circuit including a power supply for one of the layers, and a mechanism detecting the other layer, the sensor having an operating mode of multicontact type corresponding to a sweep of supply to the lines of the corresponding layer, and an operating mode of monocontact type corresponding to a continuous and uniform supply over a whole of the sensor, each operating mode being activated as a function of the detection or nondetection of at least one contact.
Claims8
A multicontact tactile sensor comprising:
- a matrix including two transparent conductive layers, at least one including an array of fine conductive tracks;
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- a control circuit including energization means for one of the layers and detection means for the other layer;
- the sensor including a multicontact mode of operation corresponding to scanned energization of rows of the corresponding layer, and an idle mode of operation corresponding to continuous and uniform energization of a whole of the multicontact tactile sensor, each mode of operation being activated as a function of detection or non-detection of at least one contact.
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