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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
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.
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公开(公告)号:US20220347039A1
公开(公告)日:2022-11-03
申请号:US17761008
申请日:2020-09-18
申请人: GEMA
发明人: Viviane PASQUI , Pascal MARTINELLI
摘要: The invention relates to an electronic handle (1) or a walking assistance apparatus equipped with such a handle, said electronic handle being arranged so as to allow the measurement of at least one component of a force applied thereto, said handle (1) comprising a central part (10) and an outer jacket (20), said electronic handle (1) being characterized in that it comprises a first photoelectric cell (30) and a first shutter element (40), arranged so that a force applied to the electronic handle (1) is capable of causing a change in the amount of photons received by a first receiver (32), said change being proportional to a first component of the force applied to the electronic handle (1).
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公开(公告)号:US11002625B2
公开(公告)日:2021-05-11
申请号:US16340020
申请日:2017-10-03
发明人: Yohan Noh , Joao Bimbo , Hongbin Liu
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.
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公开(公告)号:US20200171272A1
公开(公告)日:2020-06-04
申请号:US16781682
申请日:2020-02-04
发明人: Nicolas Aeby , Giovanni Leo
IPC分类号: A61M25/00 , A61B1/00 , A61B5/00 , A61B90/00 , G01L5/166 , A61B18/14 , A61B17/3207 , A61B5/042
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.
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公开(公告)号:US11945098B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-02
申请号:US16638882
申请日:2018-08-14
申请人: Contactile Pty Ltd
发明人: Stephen James Redmond , Heba Khamis , Benjamin Xia
CPC分类号: B25J13/083 , A41D19/01541 , A61B5/225 , G01L5/16 , G01L5/226 , G01N19/02 , G01L5/166
摘要: A system for assessing grip security, the system comprising: a contact surface having at least a first contact surface region and a second contact surface region, the first contact surface region being configured to resist slip less than the second contact surface region, a sensor for detecting slip in the first contact region.
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公开(公告)号:US20230296460A1
公开(公告)日:2023-09-21
申请号:US18015337
申请日:2021-07-29
发明人: Peter Groche , Nassr AL-BARADONI
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.
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公开(公告)号:US20230175904A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-08
申请号:US18072474
申请日:2022-11-30
申请人: Aktiebolaget SKF
发明人: Olivier VERBE , Yves-André LIVERATO
摘要: A device configured to be mounted on a mechanical component and to measure an axial load exerted on the mechanical component, the device including a ring provided with an inner cylindrical surface and with an outer opposite cylindrical surface, the inner and outer cylindrical surfaces delimiting the radial thickness of the ring. The device further provides at least one optical sensing fiber disposed in a first circumferential groove provided on one of the outer and inner cylindrical surfaces of the ring.
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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.
发明人: James Dunn , Wes Holm , Leo Chen , Tim Camacho
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.
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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.
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公开(公告)号:US12044281B2
公开(公告)日:2024-07-23
申请号:US17618095
申请日:2020-06-10
申请人: BREMBO S.p.A.
CPC分类号: F16D66/028 , G01B11/18 , G01L1/243 , G01L5/0042 , G01L5/166 , F16D2066/001 , F16D2066/005 , F16D2066/006
摘要: A method for detecting and measuring a clamping force and/or a braking torque includes encapsulating a fiber-optic strain sensor in a casing and incorporating the casing in a portion of friction material adhering to a base platform of a brake pad, detecting, by the fiber-optic strain sensor, a first strain in a first position of the casing along a first direction and a second strain in a second position of the friction material along a second direction, generating a first photonic signal, representative of the first detected strain, and a second photonic signal, representative of the second detected strain, receiving the first and second photonic signals, by an optical reading/interrogation unit, optically connected to the fiber-optic strain sensor, determining, by the optical reading/interrogation unit, the values of the first and second strains based on the first and second received photonic signals and determining a measurement of the clamping force and/or braking torque based on determined values of the first and second strains.
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