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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2022
The Texas A&m University System, College Station, TX (US);
Changhyun Choi, College Station, TX (US);
Mary Cynthia Hipwell, College Station, TX (US);
Yuan Ma, College Station, TX (US);
Jonathan R. Felts, College Station, TX (US);
The Texas A&M University System, College Station, TX (US);
Abstract
A system for providing tactile feedback to a user includes a device comprising a touch surface to be touched by the user, one or more thermal elements distributed across the touch surface of the device and configured to heat the touch surface and thereby modulate the friction between the user's skin and the touch surface, and a controller connected to the one or more thermal elements and configured to control the operation of the one or more thermal elements to provide a plurality of predefined temperature distributions across the touch surface.