Title:
INNER FORCE SENSE PRESENTING DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2000020218
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
To provide an inner force sense presenting device which is small-sized, lightweight, and inexpensive, hardly gets out of order, and never damages a user owing to a runaway.
This device consists of a shell member 2 formed of a flexible material, a tube 6 which is incorporated in the shell member and filled with a magnetic liquid 5, and a control means 9 which controls the flow of the magnetic liquid depending upon the movement of a body in the shell member. The fluid resistance of the magnetic liquid is varied by applying a magnetic field thereto to generates a desired reaction force and a means which applies the magnetic field to the magnetic liquid can be constituted so as to be small sized and light weight.
Inventors:
SAWAI HIDE
MAKINO TAKUYA
MUKASA TOMOHARU
MAKINO TAKUYA
MUKASA TOMOHARU
Application Number:
JP18220998A
Publication Date:
January 21, 2000
Filing Date:
June 29, 1998
Export Citation:
Assignee:
SONY CORP
International Classes:
G06F3/00; G06F3/01; F15B15/10; (IPC1-7): G06F3/00; F15B15/10
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yuji Komatsu
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