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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2014
Tactus Technology, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Ben Guron Calub, Fremont, CA (US);
Carl del Rosario, Fremont, CA (US);
Mario Garcia, Fremont, CA (US);
Michael Hammersley, Fremont, CA (US);
Roman Rak, Fremont, CA (US);
Curtis Ray, Fremont, CA (US);
Micah Yairi, Fremont, CA (US);
Nathan Knapp, Fremont, CA (US);
Robert Adrian Ray, Fremont, CA (US);
Brandon Gregory Miller, Fremont, CA (US);
Kyle Gregory, Fremont, CA (US);
Maxwell Harshorn Shimshak, Fremont, CA (US);
Craig Ciesla, Fremont, CA (US);
Tactus Technology, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
The dynamic tactile interface includes: a tactile layer defining a peripheral region and a deformable region adjacent the peripheral region and operable between a retracted setting and an expanded setting; a substrate including an attachment surface and coupled to the peripheral region and defining a fluid conduit adjacent the deformable region and a fluid channel fluidly coupled to the fluid conduit; a border region proximal a periphery of the substrate and defining a cavity configured to receive an instrument, the cavity supporting the instrument in a first configuration and releasing the instrument in a second configuration; and a bladder fluidly coupled to the fluid channel and coupled to the cavity, the instrument compressing a portion of the bladder in the first configuration to displace fluid from the bladder into the fluid channel to transition the deformable region from the retracted setting to the expanded setting.