Electric today announced a new haptic actuator product for touch screen displays and surfaces. Haptic feedback gives a user confirmation, through tactile sensations, that a selection has been made in any type of control system. Launched under the Ledex-HA brand, the HA110 haptic actuator provides the highest G force rating in the smallest package size with rapid response times. The HA110 has a rated life of greater than 10 million cycles which is a 20 times improvement over current technologies. The Ledex actuator has a low output frequency which is ideally suited to human discernment and has controllable stimuli which allows for multiple haptic effects for different circumstances.
“Haptic feedback is emerging as an important factor for automotive applications” said Jim Dick, Johnson Electric’s senior vice president of Strategic Marketing. “As haptic technology develops, it can be deployed in medical devices, business machines and industrial controls,” he added.