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Title:
ELECTROVISCOUS FLUID DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2004071765
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide an electroviscous fluid device which can realize changeful hardness and tension at a portion where the human body touches and is applicable also for a product which has to be carried, and an electronic apparatus.

This electroviscous fluid device comprises a housing body which can house a fluid, a pair of electrodes which have flexibility and are arranged so as to be opposed to each other in the housing body, and the electroviscous fluid which is sealed in the housing body and arranged between the pair of electrodes to change its elastic characteristic depending on the electric field between the electrodes. By applying the electroviscous fluid device to various electronic apparatuses, it is possible to electrically control the hardness, tension, hand feeling, a shape, etc. of each apparatus.


Inventors:
KONDO SHINICHIRO
Application Number:
JP2002227648A
Publication Date:
March 04, 2004
Filing Date:
August 05, 2002
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
SONY CORP
International Classes:
H01L41/08; F16F9/53; G09B21/00; G09F9/37; (IPC1-7): H05K5/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Masaru Sato