SENSOR DEVICE
    1.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220364941A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-17

    申请号:US17771272

    申请日:2020-10-16

    发明人: KAZUO HONGO

    IPC分类号: G01L5/166 G02B17/00 G01L1/24

    摘要: A sensor device includes: a light-emitting section that outputs light to a first mirror or a second mirror, the second mirror facing the first mirror and being configured to change an orientation with respect to the first mirror; and a light-receiving section that receives reflection light, reflected from the first mirror and the second mirror, of the light outputted from the light-emitting section.

    Multi-axis force sensor
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11002625B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-11

    申请号:US16340020

    申请日:2017-10-03

    IPC分类号: G01L5/16 G01L5/166 G01L5/00

    摘要: Aspects described herein provide structures for a force sensor, and force sensors using such structures, which are compact and easy to manufacture, for example by 3D printing. In particular the structures comprise a pair of stacked ring sensor elements, the ring sensor elements in turn being formed by upper and lower ring elements joined together at points around the circumference thereof by resiliently mounted connection bars. The connection bars may extend in the same plane as the rings, in which case sensitivity to torque about the axis of the rings is much reduced, such that a five-axis sensor is effectively obtained, or the connection bars may extend obliquely between the upper and lower rings of each sensor element, such that they have a directional component in the direction of the axis of the rings (the rings of each element being co-axially stacked). In this second case application of a torque about the ring axis causes the oblique connection bars to either increase or decrease their directional component in the axial direction, thus providing sensitivity to torque about the axis, and providing a compact six axis sensor.

    TRIAXIAL FIBER OPTIC FORCE SENSING CATHETER
    4.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200171272A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-04

    申请号:US16781682

    申请日:2020-02-04

    摘要: A fiber optic force sensing assembly for detecting forces imparted at a distal end of a catheter assembly. The structural member may include segments adjacent each other in a serial arrangement, with gaps located between adjacent segments that are bridged by flexures. Fiber optics are coupled to the structural member. In one embodiment, each fiber optic has a distal end disposed adjacent one of the gaps and oriented for emission of light onto and for collection of light reflected from a segment adjacent the gap. The optical fibers cooperate with the deformable structure to provide a change in the intensity of the reflected light, or alternatively to provide a variable gap interferometer for sensing deformation of the structural member. In another embodiment, the gaps are bridged by fiber Bragg gratings that reflect light back through the fiber optic at central wavelengths that vary with the strain imposed on the grating.

    Component with an integrated sensor device for an optical,  multi-axial measurement of a force application

    公开(公告)号:US20230296460A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-21

    申请号:US18015337

    申请日:2021-07-29

    IPC分类号: G01L5/166 G01L3/12

    CPC分类号: G01L5/166 G01L3/12

    摘要: A component has an integrated sensor device for an optical, multi-axis measurement of a force applied to the component. The component includes a cavity and a first support element having one or more first optical elements and a second support element having one or more second optical elements. The first support element and the second support element are formed in the cavity and partially inserted into the component. A transmission device generates at least two beams in independent directions when connected to a power source. The beams pass through the cavity between the first optical elements and the second optical elements. The first optical elements and the second optical elements are adapted to generate information about a relative positional change of the first support element with respect to the second support element based on the at least two beams. The transmission device provides the information for measuring the force application.

    Pipelaying guidance
    8.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10801644B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-13

    申请号:US16259807

    申请日:2019-01-28

    申请人: Caterpillar Inc.

    摘要: A device for providing pipelaying guidance is disclosed. The device may determine an original shape of a pipeline that comprises a plurality of pipeline segments. The device may obtain current location data concerning a respective position of each pipeline segment of the plurality of pipeline segments, and may determine a current shape of the pipeline based on the current location data. The device may calculate, based on the original shape of the pipeline and the current shape of the pipeline, stress information concerning the pipeline, and may perform one or more actions based on the stress information.

    Systems and methods for tactile sensing

    公开(公告)号:US10663361B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-26

    申请号:US15782303

    申请日:2017-10-12

    摘要: Achieving high spatial resolution in contact sensing for robotic manipulation often comes at the price of increased complexity in fabrication and integration. One traditional approach is to fabricate a large number of taxels, each delivering an individual, isolated response to a stimulus. The proposed sensors include a continuous volume of soft material, e.g., a transparent polymer, and light emitting diodes configured to emit light into the transparent volume that can be received by photodetectors. The location and depth of indentations can be measured between all pairs of light emitting diodes and photodetectors in the set, and this rich signal set can contain the information needed to pinpoint contact location with high accuracy using regression algorithms.