US 12,144,576 B2
Tactile presentation apparatus and tactile presentation system
Ryuta Horie, Saitama (JP); Kazuo Hongo, Chiba (JP); Satoko Nagakari, Chiba (JP); Ryo Terasawa, Tokyo (JP); and Yasunori Kawanami, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 16/969,194
Filed by Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jan. 21, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/001657
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 12, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/163359, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 29, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-027903 (JP), filed on Feb. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0405426 A1, Dec. 31, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 34/00 (2016.01); A61B 34/35 (2016.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 34/76 (2016.02) [A61B 34/35 (2016.02); A61B 34/74 (2016.02); A61B 34/77 (2016.02); B25J 9/1694 (2013.01); G06F 3/016 (2013.01); A61B 2034/741 (2016.02)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tactile presentation apparatus comprising:
an operation structure operated by a user;
the operation structure includes a vibrator that generates a vibration corresponding to an operation target;
the operation structure includes a contact structure that transmits the vibration by the vibrator to the user; and
an installation structure that is coupled to the contact structure via an elastic body, wherein the installation structure is also coupled to the operation structure, wherein
the contact structure has a first contact surface to be in contact with a finger of the user,
the vibrator transmits the vibration to the finger of the user via the first contact surface,
the installation structure has a second contact surface with which the finger of the user comes into contact and an opening that penetrates between a side of the second contact surface and back side of the second contact surface, and
the contact structure is provided to be inserted through the opening from the back side of the second contact surface.