Ultra-thin actuator has over-the-top product video
Coming up with creative ways to advertise the merits of a new product is not easy, especially when the product is not too exciting like washing powder or piezo actuators. Fortunately, boring products can be supported by big budgets, especially when they target huge markets like the mobile phone industry, allowing the marketing department to do something “cool” to overcome the dullness of the product.
Coming up with creative ways to advertise the merits of a new product is not easy, especially when the product is not too exciting like washing powder or piezo actuators. Fortunately, boring products can be supported by big budgets, especially when they target huge markets like the mobile phone industry, allowing the marketing department to do something “cool” to overcome the dullness of the product.
The new ultra-thin PiezoHapt actuator from TDK is such a product even though it features an exciting response time of just 4 ms which, apparently, is short for such devices. The actuator consists of a multilayer piezo element bonded to one side of a 80 x 60 mm vibration plate. With a thickness of 0.35 mm the actuator is much thinner than conventional eccentric rotary motors and linear resonant actuators, making it one of the world's thinnest haptic devices (according to TDK).
The new ultra-thin PiezoHapt actuator from TDK is such a product even though it features an exciting response time of just 4 ms which, apparently, is short for such devices. The actuator consists of a multilayer piezo element bonded to one side of a 80 x 60 mm vibration plate. With a thickness of 0.35 mm the actuator is much thinner than conventional eccentric rotary motors and linear resonant actuators, making it one of the world's thinnest haptic devices (according to TDK).
