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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2020
Murata Machinery, Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd., Wakayama, JP;
Tetsuya Namikawa, Kyoto, JP;
Shuichi Fukuhara, Kyoto, JP;
Tatsuya Kosui, Wakayama, JP;
Takafumi Kamei, Wakayama, JP;
Murata Machinery, Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd., Wakayama, JP;
Abstract
A contact pressure sensor detects a pressing force applied to a pressed body by a pressing body through a sensor portion disposed between the pressing body and the pressed body, wherein the sensor portion is formed of a knitting yarn including a carbon nanotube yarn, and the sensor portion includes a pressing body contact surface with which the pressing body comes into contact; a pressed body contact surface with which the pressed body comes into contact; knitting yarn intersecting portions formed between the pressing body contact surface and the pressed body contact surface; and void portions formed between the pressing body contact surface and the pressed body contact surface, the void portions being spaces in which the knitting yarn is not disposed.