Tactile display system
US6734785B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 23, 2001 |
| Grant date | May 11, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 9, 2022 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG09B21/004
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A tactile display system includes a housing containing a tactile pin movable axially transverse of a reference surface and an actuator mechanism engageable therewith for selective movement between raised and lowered positions. An elongated electromagnet distant from the reference surface is aligned with the tactile pin and has spaced poles of opposite, selectively reversible, polarity. A generally spherical rotatable positioning member being a permanent magnet having a peripheral surface which is partially a spherical surface and partially a truncated surface has an axis of rotation coaxial with the tactile pin and the electromagnet and is responsive to operation of the electromagnet, being movable between a first position at which the spherical surface faces the tactile pin, causing positioning of the tactile pin at the raised position and a second position at which the truncated surface faces the tactile pin causing positioning of the tactile pin at the lowered position.
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