Consideration of mechanical filterings ystem of the Meissner corpuscle

We are researching the natural timing of mechanoreceptor activity with the aim of developing improved artificial tactile presentation systems. In order to develop strategies for manufacturing noninvasive devices, we focused on peripheral level. We have presented a hypothesis on the energy conversion system of the Meissner corpuscle, a type of mechanoreceptor. It was proposed that these corpuscles encode the normal strain, especially by detecting the horizontal normal strain. We also observed an experimental evidence consistent with our hypothesis. In this study, we focused on the virtual stiffness of the mechanoreceptors and developed a motion model to verify why the horizontal stretching preferentially induces activity in the Meissner corpuscle.