Wearable haptic feedback devices and methods of fabricating wearable haptic feedback devices

US9741215B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Elwha LLC · US

Inventors

• Ehren Brav · Bainbridge Island, US
• G. Scott Bright · Seattle, US
• Joshua R. Buesseler · Mercer Island, US
• Alistair K. Chan · Bainbridge Island, US
• William D. Duncan · Sammamish, US
• Aren Anders Kaser · Seattle, US
• Edward S. Lowe · Seattle, US
• Sean Gregory McBeath · Seattle, US
• Carole McClellan · Seattle, US
• Sean Murphy · San Francisco, US
• Marc Singer · Seattle, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 10, 2015
• Grant date: Aug 22, 2017
• Expiry date: Dec 10, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08B6/00
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Embodiments include wearable haptic feedback devices and methods of fabricating wearable haptic feedback devices. In an illustrative embodiment given by way of non-limiting example, a wearable haptic feedback device includes: a wearable headgear cap; a web disposed within the cap; a plurality of haptic elements disposed about the web and configured to provide haptic feedback to a user; and an interface circuit configured to operatively couple the plurality of haptic elements to an electronic system.