Swallowing Pressures Video

What happens after savoring and chewing your favorite foods is something most of us don’t think about, but for some people who have problems in this area, it’s a painful mystery which needs solving as quickly as possible.

Sierra Scientific Instruments (SSI) was looking to provide a significant upgrade to diagnostic technology available for esophageal motility, which is a test assessing the motor function of the esophagus. To answer this challenge, PPS worked in conjunction with SSI to develop a new kind of tactile sensor, which can be integrated into a flexible catheter and inserted into the throat.

The result of this effort produced the ManoScan 360, a 36-element catheter providing spatial resolution of nearly 10 times that of the previous state-of-the-art.

It’s not always easy to understand or visualize how tactile sensing can be used or improve an application… We hope these videos will help shed some light and also be fun to watch!

One of the advantages of capacitive tactile pressure sensors is the wide variety of design options available for materials and shapes.  At Pressure Profile Systems, we take advantage of this through our four types of pressure sensor construction.

STRETCHABLE PRESSURE SENSOR for TactArrays & FingerTPS
· Made of extremely soft and conductive Lycra
· Stretches 10% with negligible baseline shift
· Thicker sensor, more limited in layout options

CONFORMABLE PRESSURE SENSOR for TactArray & ConTacts
· Soft and flexible conductive cloth
· Moldable to multi-curved surfaces
· Low-to-moderate pressures

INDUSTRIAL PRESSURE SENSOR for TactArray, ConTacts, & DigiTacts
· Flat and rigid Kapton construction
· Excellent for high temperatures and pressures
· Thinnest sensor material

HYBRID PRESSURE SENSOR for TactArray, DigiTacts, RoboTouch, & PulseTact
· Kapton base with cloth upper electrode
· Suitable for very complex designs
· Low-to-moderate pressures

Whatever your needs, PPS engineers will work with you to design the most appropriate tactile pressure sensor for your application.