Elastomer Transducers
Elastomer Transducers
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弹性体传感器
DOI：
10.4028/www.scientific.net/ast.97.61
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2016
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J. Kaneko
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作者：
S. Chiba;M. Waki;Yoshinori Tanaka;Naoaki Tsurumi;Kuniyoshi Okamoto;Kazuya Nagase;Masatoshi Honma;Hideyuki Yokota;Keiichi Odagiri;H. Sato;T. Saiki;J. Kaneko
电活性聚合物换能器具有许多适用于各种设备的特性。一种特别吸引人的电活性聚合物是介电弹性体（DE）。我们最近的进展是，使用碳系统电极，只有0.1 g DE的DE驱动器可以举起2公斤的重量。我们还开发了一种带状DE执行器，具有传感器功能，可用于同时测量力或压力以及运动。这个驱动器可以辅助人和机器人的运动。同时，它还可以作为运动反馈传感器。我们希望它能成为手、腿和手指的智能康复设备。DE也被证明可以作为发电机反向运行。在人体运动驱动的便携式DE发电机/可穿戴发电机、安装在浮标上的海浪能收集器、太阳能热发电机和水轮机上进行了实验。虽然这种演示装置的功率输出水平很小，但这些装置的性能已经支持了DE的潜在优势。我们正在开发具有更大介电常数的弹性体，使用钡钛氧化物在不久的将来生产“用于能量收集装置，执行器和传感器的超级人造肌肉”。
Electroactive polymer transducers have many features that are desirable for various devices. An especially attractive type of electroactive polymer is dielectric elastomer (DE). Our recent progress is a DE actuator having only 0.1 g of DE that lifted a weight of 2 kg using carbon system electrodes. We also developed a ribbon form DE actuator having a sensor function that can be used to measure force, or pressure, as well as motion at the same time. This actuator can assist human and robot motions. At the same time, it can work as a motion feedback sensor. We hope that it may be useful for smart rehabilitation equipment for hands, legs, and fingers. DE has also been shown to operate in reverse as a generator. Experiments have been performed on portable DE generators/wearable generators powered by human motion, ocean wave power harvesters mounted on buoys, solar heat generators, and water turbines. While the power output levels of such demonstration devices is small, the performance of these devices has supported the potential benefits of DE. We are developing elastomers having larger dielectric constant using barium titanium oxide to produce a “super artificial muscle for energy harvesting devices, actuators & sensors” in the near future.