VISCOELASTICITY MEASURING APPARATUS

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APP PUB NO 20140020475A1
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13947448

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A viscoelasticity measuring apparatus that measures viscoelasticity of a measurement target with high precision is provided. The measuring apparatus includes: a casing; a surface contact part provided in the casing and brought into surface contact with skin; a ball indenter that moves toward the skin more than the surface contact part and is pushed into the skin; a driving unit that supports the ball indenter and moves the ball indenter toward the skin; a load cell whose right end side is fixed to the casing and left end side supports the driving unit, the load cell detecting a pushing load that pushes the ball indenter into the skin; and a control unit that obtains displacement of the ball indenter.

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TANITA CORPORATION14-2 MAENO-CHO 1-CHOME ITABASHI-KU TOKYO 174-8630
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGYTOKYO 183-8538

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
INOUE, Kazuma Itabashi-ku, JP 24 70
Sakuma, Atsushi Fuchu-shi, JP 33 234

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