Soft portable wearable pneumatic interactive suit
US11458067B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 1, 2018 |
| Grant date | Oct 4, 2022 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 29, 2038 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA63B2225/62
- WIPO fieldFurniture, games
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
A fully wearable system used for communication and information transfer between two users or between a user and a machine to render an effective and intuitive physical interface for combined input and output functions, the fully wearable system including a bidirectional wearable skin including distributed actuator and sensing elements, the actuator and sensing elements including a multimodal actuation layer and a sensing layer, the bidirectional wearable skin being flexible and stretchable, and a portable control device for controlling the distributed actuator and sensing elements, and reading signals from the sensing layer, the portable control device is configured to perform pixilated actuation for both micro- and macrostimulation of a body of a wearer by an actuation frequency and stimulation amplitude.
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