Sensor Applications
FSRs are uniquely suited for a variety of applications, such as force sensors, pointing devices, and position sensors in markets like Medical, Automotive, Industrial Automation, and Rugged/Robotics/Military.
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Applications overview
Detect & qualify press
Sense whether a touch is accidental or intended by reading force
Use force for UI feedback
Detect more or less user force to make a more intuitive interface
Enhance tool safety
Differentiate a grip from a touch as a safety lock
Find centroid of force
Use multiple sensors to determine centroid of force
Detect presence, position, or motion
Of a person or patient in a bed, chair, or medical device
Detect liquid blockage
Detect tube or pump occlusion or blockage by measuring back pressure
Detect proper tube positioning
Many other force measurement applications
Joystick & pointing devices
- Simple integration
- Very compact
- Smooth 360° control with tap-to-select
- Wide range of modular and component level solutions
- Applications:
- Personal computing, keyboards, remote controls and mobile consumer electronics
Touchpads
- Absolute or relative
- X, Y and pressure
- Any actuator / passive stylus
- Low power (open circuit)
- Mobile applications, remote controls, personal computing
- Applications:
- Input for character recognition without obstructing display; gesture recognition, scrolling; signature capture; and mousing!
Pressure sensitive scroll strips & buttons under hard surface
- Industrial Design – elegant single body smooth surface controls
- Relative pressure measurement for haptics,touch & select, and predict intended button press
- Eliminate accidental touch
- Ultra thin ‘switch’ solution
- Operation with gloved finger, stylus, and in contaminated environments
- Multi-touch strips
- Applications:
- Mobile Consumer applications
