Viscoelasticity measuring apparatus

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9194781
APP PUB NO 20140020476A1
SERIAL NO

13828039

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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 CORPORATIONTOKYO 174-8630
TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGYTOKYO 183-8538

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Inoue, Kazuma Tokyo, JP 24 70
Sakuma, Atsushi Tokyo, JP 33 234

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