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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2023
Nitto Bend Technologies, Inc., Farmington, UT (US);
Nitto Denko Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Colton A. Ottley, Farmington, UT (US);
Jared K. Jonas, Seattle, WA (US);
Colin D. Eichinger, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Nathan Grimes, Bountiful, UT (US);
Nathan C. Briggs, Ogden, UT (US);
Nitto Bend Technologies, Inc., Farmington, UT (US);
Abstract
Disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for additively manufacturing (e.g., by 'printing' or the like) a bend sensor as a 2D structure that can then be configured into a 3D or stacked structure. Further disclosed embodiments include bend sensors with foldable sensing regions configurable into a 3D or stacked structure. A differential strain in a sensing region is linearly proportional to the displacement as measured from the endpoints of the sensing region. The differential strain is measurable as a differential change in the capacitance of the sensing regions.