US Patent Issued to NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS on July 7 for "Top panel for tactile sense presentation device, tactile sense presentation device, and method for manufacturing top panel for tactile sense presentation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,180, issued on July 7, was assigned to NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS Co. LTD. (Shiga, Japan).

"Top panel for tactile sense presentation device, tactile sense presentation device, and method for manufacturing top panel for tactile sense presentation device" was invented by Naoki Fujita (Otsu, Japan), Takumi Kinoshita (Otsu, Japan) and Masaru Iwao (Otsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a top panel for a tactile sense presentation device in which the top panel can have a sufficiently wide range of changes in frictional force and thus effectively increase the expressiveness of the tactile sense. A top panel 1 for a tactile sense ...