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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2003
Roger Proksch, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Jason Cleveland, Ventura, CA (US);
Dan Bocek, Goleta, CA (US);
Todd Day, Goleta, CA (US);
Roger Proksch, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Jason Cleveland, Ventura, CA (US);
Dan Bocek, Goleta, CA (US);
Todd Day, Goleta, CA (US);
Asylum Research Corporation, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for simulating a tactile interface with the relative position of the probe of a cantilever-based force measurement instrument, such as an atomic force microscope, molecular force probe or profilometer, or the force between the probe and a sample. The device can be easily incorporated into existing control electronics for such instruments or can be incorporated into a relatively small and simple hand-held device to be used with such instruments.