Design and fabrication of miniaturized force sensor with quartz crystal resonators

Yu Ching Lin, Ayumi Asakura, Toshio Fukuda, Fumihito Arai

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    Abstract

    A force sensor with quartz crystal resonator has the characteristic that the resonance frequency changes by the external force, which achieves high sensitivity, high-speed response, and wide range measurement by a simple structure. Also it has the superior feature in the temperature and frequency stability. On the other hand, the quartz crystal resonator had been hardly applied to a dynamic force measurement because of low degree of mechanical characteristic, that is, it is weak to the impact, bend, and tension. The objective of this study is to construct the sensor mechanism that safely maintains the quartz crystal resonator for the external force with flat structure. We designed and analyzed a novel retention mechanism of the quartz crystal resonator for the flat structure. The proposed force sensor is flat, small, and sensitive enough to be applied to several usages such as medical treatment and dynamic contact force detection of human.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2007
    Pages1112-1117
    Number of pages6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2007 Dec 1
    Event2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2007 - San Diego, CA, United States
    Duration: 2007 Oct 292007 Nov 2

    Publication series

    NameIEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

    Other

    Other2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2007
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CitySan Diego, CA
    Period07/10/2907/11/2

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Control and Systems Engineering
    • Software
    • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    • Computer Science Applications

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