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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2014
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Matthew M. White, Glen Mills, PA (US);
Eric E. Sanborn, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Matthew A. Castellucci, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Emily E. H. Templeton, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Naman Garg, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Nur Aida Abdul Rahim, Blacksburg, VA (US);
John J. Kutz, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Alexander K. Sang, Christiansburg, VA (US);
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A pressure sensing pad includes a flexible planar layer having a two-dimensional sensing area, and an optical fiber embedded in the plane of the flexible planar layer traversing the two-dimensional sensing area in a particular configuration. At least one end of the fiber optic strain sensor has a connector that is connectable to an interferometric-based fiber optic interrogation and processing system. When the connector is connected to the an interferometric-based fiber optic interrogation and processing system and pressure is applied to the pressure sensing pad, a signal from the optical fiber is provided to and processed by the interferometric-based fiber optic interrogation and processing system to determine a two-dimensional pressure map for the two-dimensional sensing area.