A Thermal Tactile Display Device with Multiple Heat Sources

Author

Zhipeng, Mao ; Jianfeng, Wu ; Jianqing, Li ; Lianjie, Zhou ; Xiaomin, Li ; Yurong, Yang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Instrum. Sci. & Eng., Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China

fYear

2012

Firstpage

192

Lastpage

195

Abstract

A compact thermal tactile display device with multiple heat sources is proposed in this paper. The device has a 3×3 display units array and a Peltier module. In every display unit, a wire-twined resistance is used as heat component, a minitype NTC thermistor is used as temperature sensor, and an aluminum column is used as heat conduction component for contacting. The Peltier module is used to cool the display units array. Finally, the device was installed on the hand controller, allowing operators to manipulate virtual hand to touch the heat sources in the virtual environment, and its thermal tactile display property was tested. The results showed that the thermal tactile device can display the temperature from 5°C to 55°C, and different temperature field distribution can be displayed on the contact surface of the 3×3 array.

Keywords

Peltier effect; display devices; tactile sensors; temperature sensors; thermistors; virtual instrumentation; Peltier module; aluminum column; compact thermal tactile display device; contacting; heat component; heat conduction component; minitype NTC thermistor; multiple heat source; temperature 5 degC to 55 degC; temperature field distribution; temperature sensor; virtual environment; virtual hand; wire-twined resistance; Aluminum; Arrays; Cooling; Heating; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Multiple heat sources; Thermal sensation; Thermal tactile display; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Control and Electronics Engineering (ICICEE), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1450-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICEE.2012.58

Filename

6322347