Nippon Mektron Limited

Shingo Muromoto

Taisuke Kimura

Akio Yoshida

Kouta Minamizawa

Susumu Tachi

Kazuyuki Ozaki

Katsunari Sato

Kiyoshi Igarashi

Nobuyuki Shintaku

An extensible flexible printed circuit board sets one or a plurality of flexible printed circuit boards each including a plurality of conductive layers and an insulating layer as a base circuit board, and includes: component mounting parts which are provided at least at parts of the base circuit board, and capable of mounting electronic components; an extensible conductive part which is provided at least at a part of the base circuit board, includes a plurality of joint parts each intersecting a center line in an extension/contraction direction and a plurality of curved parts each continuing from an end part of each joint part and curve, and exhibits extensibility by the curved parts curving to open or close; and a covering member whose material is a flexibly deformable elastomer, and which covers the component mounting parts and the extensible conductive part.

Extensible flexible printed circuit board and method for manufacturing extensible flexible printed circuit board

A tactile sense presentation device is provided which is simple in structure, and is able to give a real tactile sense to a human body by causing electrical stimulation to effectively act thereon, while holding original human tactile sense. The electric tactile sense presentation device includes an electrode substrate adapted to be worn on a human body so as to be in contact with a skin, and a multitude of electrodes formed on a contact surface of the electrode substrate for contact with the skin to present a tactile sense by means of electrical stimulation, wherein the electrode substrate is composed of a flexible circuit body which is flexible to enable a portion thereof in contact with a real object to flexibly deform so as to conform to deformation of the skin, and it is configured such that electrical stimulation by the electrodes is superimposed on the tactile sense of a human being, while maintaining the human tactile sense.

Electric tactile sense presentation device

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Tokyo, Japan

Shingo Muromoto