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Ionic electro-active polymer(EAP) actuators based on nano-carbon electrodes, which are comprised of materials such as carbon nano-tubes, ionic liquid and polymer are characterized by their thin, light and low-voltage properties. Alps had developed an ultra-thin and ultra-light Braille display for vision-impaired people utilizing this technology, in collaboration with AIST, Tokyo Univ., and Keio Univ. from fiscal 2009 to 2010, with the support of Ministry of Heath, Labor and Welfare (MLHW), Japan.. In addition, for the purpose of improving the readability of display on the part of vision-impaired people who lost vision later in life, or those with finger paralysis, we developed a Braille display with a latching mechanism to move Braille dots.
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The authors thank to Dr. Asaka K, Dr. Sugino T (Health Research Institute of AIST), Prof. Nakano Y, Assit.-Prof. Arai T (Keio Univ.), and Prof. Someya T, Dr. Sekitani T (Tokyo Univ.) for their collaborations in the Braille project (the grant from Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan in 2009 FY and 2010 FY).
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Takahashi, I., Takatsuka, T., Abe, M. (2014). Application of Nano-Carbon Actuator to Braille Display. In: Asaka, K., Okuzaki, H. (eds) Soft Actuators. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54767-9_27
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