Nok Corporation

Nippon Mektron Limited

Hiroshi Umebayashi

Hidekazu Yoshihara

Taisuke Kimura

Keizo Toyama

Toru Uda

Yuki Murota

The present invention aims at providing a cover structure of a tactile sensor and a tactile sensor that can secure sufficient adhesion between a sensor body and a covering layer without providing an adhesive layer and have no possibility of causing a sensor to make detection error due to the covering layer formed thereon. A cover structure of a tactile sensor according to the present invention includes a sensor bodyand a covering layermade of elastic body molded on the sensor body. The covering layerincludes at least two layers of an outer layerdisposed as the outermost layer and an inner layerdisposed to come in contact with the sensor bodyand having a higher adhesiveness and a lower hardness than those of the outer layer, and is integrally molded with the sensor bodyby the cast molding. It is preferable that the sensor bodybe disposed on the top surface of the base, the covering layercover over the sensor bodyand the base, and the inner layerdo not cover the bottom surface of the base

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hiroshi Umebayashi