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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
May. 14, 2020
Cyberdyne Inc., Tsukuba, JP;
Yoshiyuki Sankai, Tsukuba, JP;
CYBERDYNE Inc., Ibaraki, JP;
Abstract
A haptic detection apparatus includes: a capacitance detection unit that detects capacitance of each of capacitors which changes according to an external force applied to a second electrode plate of a capacitance-type load sensor; a distributed load measurement unit that measures a distributed load indicating a distribution of load applied to each of the cylinders on the basis of a change amount of the capacitance of each capacitor which is detected by the capacitance detection unit; and a load information calculation unit that calculates a total load and a load center position of the external force applied to the second electrode plate of the load sensor on the basis of a relation between an expansion/contraction amount of each cylinder relative to the distributed load measured by the distributed load measurement unit and a pattern of the distributed load.