Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 05, 2019 - June 08, 2019
Slide-ring material (SRM) is a unique polymer that has ring-shaped cross-linking points, which lead to superior mechanical characteristics. Our previous work reported that a SRM sheet sandwiched by two compliant electrodes shows large bending deformation when subjected to a large electric field. This paper proposes a U-shaped structure to obtain linear displacement from the bending motion. In the proposed U-shaped actuator, an SRM sheet is bent into U-shape, whose tip linearly moves as the SRM sheet bends. The paper reports on its motion characteristics.
