Force Dimension Sarl

Novint Technologies, Inc.

Force Dimension

Baur S.s.

Force Dimension Technologies Sarl

Baur Sa

Patrick Helmer

Patrice Rouiller

Francois Conti

Sébastien Grange

Sebastien Grange

Tiavina Niaritsiry

Charles Baur

Sebastian Grange

Luc Maillat

Marc Weibel

François Conti

Raymond Clavel

A watch interaction simulation apparatus for carrying out interaction with a watch interaction member for a watch includes a sensor device adapted to be coupled with the watch interaction member. The sensor device is operable to sense an interaction with the watch interaction member. The apparatus includes an actuator device being coupled to the watch interaction member, an actuator control device for controlling the actuator device, and a sensor information computing device being operatively coupled to the sensor device.

Watch interaction simulation system, apparatus, method and computer program product

Method of providing vibro-tactile feedback to a user of a user interface device comprising at least one actuator adapted to provide vibro-tactile feedback to the user and communicatively coupled to an application device, a vibro-tactile feedback providing device and vibro-tactile feedback providing system as well as a computer program product for carry out said method.

Vibro-tactile feedback method and device

A force-feedback device comprising a first member; a first kinematics bond being coupled with said first member; said first kinematics bond being constructed to provide at least one degree of freedom for movements of said first member; said first kinematics bond comprising a braking device being constructed to constrain movements of the said first member in at least one of said at least one degree of freedom; and a energy storing/release device being constructed to store energy in response to a movement of said first member in at least one of said at least one degree of freedom constrained by said braking device. A method of providing force-feedback including constraining a movement of a member of a haptic device in at least one degree of freedom; moving the member, by an externally applied force, in at least one of the at least one constraint degree of freedom; storing energy generated by the moving of the member; determining a force required to move the member in at least one of the at least one constraint degree of freedom; releasing at least a portion of the stored energy to generate at least a portion of the required force and transmitting the at least a portion of the required force to the member.

Force-feedback device and method

A device for the relative movement between an input member and an output member, the device comprising an input member (); an output member (); an intermediate member () coupling the input member () and the output member (); a first kinematics bond () coupling the intermediate member () and the input member (); the first kinematics bond () providing at least two rotational degrees of freedom; and a second kinematics bond () coupling the intermediate member () and the output member (), the second kinematics bond () being adapted to transmit rotational motions between the intermediate member () and the output member () and to offset rotation axes of at least two rotational degrees of freedom of the output member ().

Device for movement between an input member and an output member

A parallel kinematic structure comprises at least two kinematic chains being functionally arranged in parallel. Each of the two kinematic chains has, at a moveable end thereof, at least one degree of freedom, and comprising a passive anti-planar joint arrangement having a translational degree of freedom and two rotational degrees of freedom. Each anti-planar joint arrangement has an input section and an output section. At least one of the kinematic chains comprises a planar joint arrangement having at least one of at least one translational degree of freedom and a rotational degree of freedom, the planar joint arrangement having an output section. Further, the planar joint arrangement is adapted for active movements in at least one of its degrees of freedom. The input section of the anti-planar joint arrangement and the output section of the respective planar joint arrangement are coupled. The parallel kinematic structure further comprises a moveable end-effector section coupled with the output sections of the anti-planar joint arrangements.

Parallel kinematic structure

A device for transmitting movements comprising a parallel kinematics transmission structure adapted to provide at least one degree of freedom including three translational degrees of freedom, the parallel kinematics transmission structure further comprising a base member (), a moveable member (), and at least one parallel kinematics chain () coupling the base member () and the moveable member (), each parallel kinematics chain () having a first arm () moveable in a movement plane wherein the movement planes are at a distance to a symmetry axis (), and each parallel kinematics chain () comprising a second arm () coupled to the moveable member (), wherein a first end () of the second arm () is adapted to be coupled to the first arm () and a second end () of the second arm () is adapted to be coupled to the moveable member ().

Device for transmitting movements and components thereof

An active gripper for a haptic device including a parallel kinematics structure providing at least three degrees of freedom including three translational degrees of freedom, wherein the gripper comprises a first contact surface being adapted for contact by a first portion of a hand of a user, a second contact surface being adapted for contact by a second portion of the user's hand, which hand's second portion being moveable in relation to the hand's first portion, and a moveable member arranged between the first contact surface and the second contact surface and being adapted to actively move the first contact surface and the second contact surface in relation to each other.

Active gripper for haptic devices

A haptic device comprising a base member (), an end-effector (), a parallel kinematics structure arranged between the base plate and the end-effector and providing at least three degrees of freedom including at least three translational degrees of freedom in relation to the end-effector, and at least one passive gravity compensation means being adapted to exert forces and/or torques on the parallel kinematics structure for at least partial compensation of gravity related forces and/or torques acting in at least one of the three translational degrees of freedom.

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