Sony patents finger-holding device that pushes back to create touch
Sony has filed a patent for a small device that grips a user's finger from multiple sides. Inside the grip, a movable part pushes against the finger's pad or sides to create a physical sensation of force.
In the filing’s own words
A haptic presentation device includes a holding unit that holds a user's finger from at least two directions and a haptic presentation unit that is disposed inside the holding unit at a position where the haptic presentation unit can come in contact with at least one of areas including at least the pad side, left side, right side, and nail side of the user's finger held by the holding unit, and that presents a sense of force to the area with which the haptic presentation unit is in contact.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A haptic presentation device comprising: a holding unit configured to hold a user's finger from at least two directions; and a haptic presentation unit comprising a movable member being movable in three axial directions perpendicular to one another and being disposed inside the holding unit at a position where the movable member is configured to come in contact with the user's finger held by the holding unit, and present a sense of force to an area of the user's finger with which the movable member is in contact.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.)
- Official title
- HAPTIC PRESENTATION DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM
- Publication number
- US20260301551A1
- Application number
- 19474094
- Filed
- Apr 18, 2023
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G08B 6/00 Physics & computingMore from Sony in Wearables
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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