Nanomade Lab.

Novares France

Nanomade Concept

Fabrice Severac

Christophe Cazes

François Bollier

Nicolas Dufour

François Lelievre

Nicolas Dufopur

Marie-Laure Pourciel-Gouzy

Celine Christophe

Céline Christophe

Vincent Barborini

A motor vehicle control case includes an outer shell with several control areas, each of the control areas assigned to a specific function of the vehicle, a printed circuit board supporting elementary sensors to generate an electrical signal in response to an action such as an approach movement, a contact or a pressure exerted by a user by having his fingers on at least one of the control areas. The elementary sensors are connected to an electronic control unit, the electrical signal generated by the elementary sensors being transmitted to the electronic control unit to be analyzed therein and converted into a control of a function of the vehicle. Each elementary sensor includes at least one insulating substrate on which are deposited conductive tracks forming a capacitive sensor and an assembly of conductive or semi-conductive nanoparticles in colloidal suspension in an electrically insulating ligand, the assembly forming a force sensor.

Control unit for a motor vehicle

The invention relates to a touch surface comprising: The invention also relates to a method for detecting and measuring the force applied by a touch against such a touch surface.

Touch surface functionalized by a combined force and proximity sensor

The invention is about a sensor assembly comprising, on an active part (), an assembly of conductive nanoparticles () in an insulating ligand, a substrate on which conductive tracks () and the assembly of nanoparticles are deposited, a thin stiffener () extending under the active part, glued to the substrate by a hardening glue on a first face of the thin stiffener and a pressure-sensitive adhesive attached to a second face of the thin stiffener (), opposite the first face, configured for bonding the miniature sensor to a surface to be functionalized. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing of such a sensor assembly.

Method for manufacturing a combined touch and force sensor, particularly backlit

A compensated pressure or force sensor, especially for temperature, includes a substrate and on one side of the substrate, a first assembly of multilayer nanoparticles between the first pair of electrodes. On the same side of the substrate, near the first assembly, a second assembly of monolayer nanoparticles between the second pair of electrodes. The sensor additionally includes an electronic circuit configured to measure the variation of an electrical property of the first and second nanoparticle assemblies and to combine the measurements. A touch screen utilizing such sensor is provided.

Sensor and touch screen with environmental compensation, especially for temperature

A method for manufacturing a transparent tactile surface. The nanoparticles, particularly of ITO, are incorporated in an aqueous solution containing a stabilizing agent. The water suspension including the nanoparticles are subjected to ultrasound. The nanoparticles in aqueous suspension with a ligand are incubated that can attach to the surface of the nanoparticles through a covalent bond. The nanoparticles with the surface modified by the ligand in the form of a colloidal suspension are deposited on a transparent substrate.

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Toulouse, France

Fabrice Severac