[Object] To provide a haptic sensation presenting device and a holding device that are capable of presenting a variety of haptic sensations with a simple mechanism.

[Solving Means] A haptic sensation presenting device according to the present technology includes: a casing; a film; and a flat plate member. The casing has an opening. The film closes the opening. The flat plate member has a main surface parallel to an opening surface of the opening, and is supported by the casing so as to be movable between a first position at which the main surface is located on the same surface as the opening surface and a second position at which the main surface is separated from the opening surface in a direction opposite to the film.

An actuator includes a connection body which is connected with a support body and a movable body and is provided with elasticity and/or viscoelasticity, and a magnetic drive mechanism structured to move the movable body with respect to the support body. The movable body may include a support shaft, a tube-shaped part surrounding a magnet, a first inner frame part on one side of the tube-shaped part, and a second inner frame part on the other side of the tube-shaped part. The support body may include a first outer frame part, a second outer frame part, and a case surrounding the first and the second outer frame parts and the tube-shaped part. The connection body includes first and second connection bodies between the first and second inner frame parts and the first and second outer frame parts, and a third connection body between the tube-shaped part and the case.

An electro-magnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) system and method for controlling the EMAT system are provided. The system includes an electromagnet array with one or more electromagnets. Each electromagnet includes a magnetic core and a wound coil wrapped around the magnetic core. The electromagnet array generates bias magnetic fields having different patterns when the wound coils are energized differently.

An electro-magnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) system and method for controlling the EMAT system are provided. The system includes an electromagnet array with one or more electromagnets. Each electromagnet includes a magnetic core and a wound coil wrapped around the magnetic core. The electromagnet array generates bias magnetic fields having different patterns when the wound coils are energized differently.

A horizontal linear-vibration generating apparatus that includes: a case coupled to a bracket so as to provide mounting space therein; a stator mounted in the mounting space and including a coil-yoke unit electrically connected to a circuit substrate on the bracket; a vibrator having magnets corresponding to the coil-yoke unit and weighted bodies configured to amplify vibration and vibrating in a first direction with respect to the stator in the mounting space; and first and second springs correspondingly provided between the case and the vibrator and elastically supporting a shaking motion of the vibrator in the first direction with respect to the stator in the mounting space, at opposite sides of the vibrator, where the first spring and the second spring are integrally provided with first and second spring feet, respectively, for mounting the vibrator.

A haptic actuator includes mechanical links defining a first J-trajectory and mechanical links defining a second J-trajectory as well as a motor coupled to the mechanical links so as to synchronously accelerate a first mass over the first J-trajectory and a second mass over the second J-trajectory. During a first time interval, reactive forces of the first mass accelerating substantially balance reactive forces of the second mass accelerating and during a second time interval reactive forces of the first mass accelerating do not substantially balance reactive forces of the second mass accelerating. This un-balanced condition results in a tap signal being produced.

According to one embodiment, a tactile actuator can comprise: a housing having an accommodation space therein; a cap covering at least a portion of the accommodation space; a vibration unit disposed inside the accommodation space; an elastic member for connecting the housing and the vibration unit such that the vibration unit can vibrate with respect to the housing; a coil for forming a magnetic field to drive the vibration unit; and a control unit for determining any one driving mode on the basis of collected driving information from among a plurality of preset driving modes and determining, according to the driving mode, the characteristic of a current to be applied to the coil.

A vibration actuator capable of reducing variations of pressure force and reaction force acting on a vibrator and a contact member has a specific construction. Vibrator devices respectively have vibrators, each of which includes an elastic member and an electro-mechanical energy conversion element. A contact member contacts the vibrators and is movable in a predetermined direction relatively to the vibrators. A restraint member fixes a first vibrator device among the vibrator devices to restrict a degree of freedom in the predetermined direction. A flexible member connects a second vibrator device among the vibrator devices to the first vibrator device. The flexible member has predetermined rigidity in the predetermined direction and has rigidity, which is lower than the predetermined rigidity, in directions other than the predetermined direction.

A pump contains a pump unit for suctioning and discharging fluid due to electromagnetic drive of a vibration actuator. The vibration actuator includes a fixed body containing one of a coil core portion and a magnet, a movable body containing another one of the coil core portion and the magnet, and a shaft portion for supporting the movable body so that the movable body can perform reciprocating rotation. The pump unit includes a movable wall, and a sealed chamber whose volume can be changed by displacement of the movable wall. The movable body has a pressing portion which can abut against the movable wall to press the movable wall when the movable body performs the reciprocating rotation.

The present disclosure concerns a haptic solenoid assembly for transmission of amplified vibrations to a vibrated member, the haptic solenoid assembly comprising a stationary pole comprising a casing defining a plunger-receiving cavity opening out in the casing and a coil at least partially surrounding the plunger-receiving cavity; a mobile pole comprising a mobile pole body at least partially received in the plunger-receiving cavity and displaceable therein when an electric current is provided to the coil; and a lever-mounting portion protruding outwardly from the plunger-receiving cavity and engageable to the vibrated member; and a solenoid vibration-damping system engaged to the stationary pole and at least partially surrounding the plunger-receiving cavity. The present disclosure also concerns a haptic solenoid system comprising a haptic solenoid assembly and a vibration-transmitting member connected to the lever-mounting end portion of the mobile pole and engageable to the vibrated member.