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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2005
Yuriko Suzuki, Yokohama, JP;
Minoru Kobayashi, Kokubunji, JP;
Katsuhiko Ogawa, Yokohama, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A force feedback apparatus of the present invention includes: jetting means that includes a nozzle and that can control a jet amount or a jet direction of gas or liquid jetted from the nozzle; jet control means for controlling the jet amount or the jet direction of the gas or the liquid according to a position or an orientation of a receiver that receives pressure by the gas or the liquid jetted from the jetting means so as to provide force feedback to an operator. When the receiver has a concave shape of a diameter D, intervals for placing the nozzles in the jetting means are set such that at least one nozzle exists within a region having a diameter of a constant×D.