K. Nakao, R. Morita, Y. Saji, K. Ishida, M. Ogawa, Y. Tomooka, T. Tsuji
{"title":"The reconstruction of bioengineered organ by cell manipulation","authors":"K. Nakao, R. Morita, Y. Saji, K. Ishida, M. Ogawa, Y. Tomooka, T. Tsuji","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2006.320294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2006.320294","url":null,"abstract":"It has been expected that technology for reconstitution of an entire organ from single cells for application to organ replacement strategies in regenerative therapy. In our current study, we show that the artificial organ germ, which generates a structurally correct organ, could be reconstituted by cell manipulation. Bioengineered tooth germ was reconstituted from epithelial and mesenchymal single cells, which were separated from E14.5 incisor tooth germ under stereoscopic microscope. Explants reconstituted with the compartmentalization between epithelial and mesenchymal cells at high-cell density could generate structurally correct teeth. Furthermore, individual primordia, which were dissected from the bioengineered tooth germ on day 2 of the organ culture, could generate a single tooth. These observations indicate that the initial cell density and the compartmentalization between cell types, which mimics epithelial mesenchymal cell interaction, are essential for the development of a bioengineered organ germ. Our results have a potential for the application of bioengineered organ in future regenerative therapies","PeriodicalId":121329,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Symposium on MicroNanoMechanical and Human Science","volume":"61 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116833514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coding the Environment in Tactile Maps for Real-Time Guidance of the Visually Impaired","authors":"R. Velázquez, E. Fontaine, E. Pissaloux","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2006.320235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2006.320235","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores an application of computer vision and touch stimulating interfaces for developing a novel electronic travel aid (ETA): the Intelligent Glasses (IG). The IG is a new sensory substitution/supplementation supportive system that provides tactile maps of visual spaces and possible paths for navigating these spaces so that the visually impaired can easily perform independent, safe and efficient mobility tasks. A technical overview of the system is presented as well as preliminary results that strongly suggest that environmental information presented to the sense of touch is feasible for realtime guidance of the visually impaired","PeriodicalId":121329,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Symposium on MicroNanoMechanical and Human Science","volume":"916 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114753581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Tanaka, T. Nomura, Y. Funabiki, T. Kitadani, K. Idei, K. Yamashita, D. Noda, T. Hattori
{"title":"Fabrication of a Tapered Structure by Means of Exposure to Diffracted UV Light","authors":"T. Tanaka, T. Nomura, Y. Funabiki, T. Kitadani, K. Idei, K. Yamashita, D. Noda, T. Hattori","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2006.320297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2006.320297","url":null,"abstract":"Demands for personal digital assistants (PDA) call for them to be additionally low profile, lightweight, and low power. To fulfil these demands, it is necessary to develop a backlight unit that features low-power consumption, high brightness, and high efficiency. The light source in a backlight unit has a light guide plate, which is a highly important component. The light guide plate has dots to reflect light. It is known that the smaller the dots and the higher the aspect ratio, the brighter the screen. The result of a simulation revealed that it is possible to improve the brightness of light guide plate by forming the shape of a truncated cone with a taper angle of 68 to 78 degrees. However, using the existing machining technology, it is difficult to form the dots into such a shape. Producing a desired shape, like a tapered shape, in the depthwise direction is difficult even with lithography, although using an elaborate mask pattern, this technique can produce a sophisticated shape on a two-dimensional plane. We have produced a tapered microstructure with a high aspect ratio, devising an innovative method of diffracted light exposure based on a lithography technique making use of UV light source. Furthermore, we controlled the taper angle and fabricated a light guide plate through a mold master, Ni-electroforming, and an injection molding by using UV-LIGA process","PeriodicalId":121329,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Symposium on MicroNanoMechanical and Human Science","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116896268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Fukuzawa, T. Shimuta, T. Yoshida, H. Zhang, Y. Mitsuya
{"title":"Direct Visualization of Instability Phenomena of Molecularly Thin Liquid Films","authors":"K. Fukuzawa, T. Shimuta, T. Yoshida, H. Zhang, Y. Mitsuya","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2006.320268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2006.320268","url":null,"abstract":"High-density hard disk drives (HDDs) require a very low flying height, less than 10 nm. To meet this demand, the current thickness of liquid lubricant films is molecularly thin and of the order of 1 nm. Therefore, distribution control of molecularly thin lubricant films is indispensable to high-density recording. The behavior of molecularly thin liquid films is determined by the intermolecular interaction between the liquid molecules and media surface. The instability of the molecularly thin lubricant on the disks is a big problem for the polar lubricant, which is widely used for HDDs. The instability is called dewetting, which is caused by the intermolecular interaction between the lubricant and the disk. In this paper, the dewetting of molecularly thin lubricant films on magnetic disks has been investigated by visualizing the dewetting process directly, using ellipsometric microscopy","PeriodicalId":121329,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Symposium on MicroNanoMechanical and Human Science","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116021945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Ohka, Y. Sawamoto, S. Matsukawa, T. Miyaoka, Y. Mitsuya
{"title":"A Two-axis Bimorph Piezoelectric Actuator for Pressure and Slippage Force Presentation","authors":"M. Ohka, Y. Sawamoto, S. Matsukawa, T. Miyaoka, Y. Mitsuya","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2006.320223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2006.320223","url":null,"abstract":"We are studying a two-axis micro-actuator to enhance the presentation reality of a tactile display that is capable of presenting pressure distribution and shearing force. We develop two types of actuators; Actuator A is composed of sequentially connected x- and y-directional actuators; each actuator is comprised of bimorph piezoelectric actuators. The x- and y-directional actuators are independently controlled by changing the applied voltage to position a probe that is attached to the tip of a two-axis actuator. The maximum displacement and force generated by the x-directional actuator are 1.1 mm and 0.03 N, respectively. Those generated by y-directional actuator are 1.0 mm and 0.06 N, respectively. Actuator B is composed of two bimorph actuators making an angle, two small links and three joints. At the present, we confirm that the actuator can move along x and y-axes of two-dimensional coordinate. Finally, since relationship between applied voltage and displacement caused by the voltage shows a hysteresis loop in the bimorph actuator used as components of the two-axis actuator, we produce a control system for the two-axial actuator based on a multi-layered artificial neural network to compensate the hysteresis","PeriodicalId":121329,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Symposium on MicroNanoMechanical and Human Science","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127108988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Energy Efficient Swing-Back Control for Brachiation Robot","authors":"T. Fukuda, S. Kojima, K. Sekiyama, Y. Hasegawa","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2006.320273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2006.320273","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose an energy efficient swing back control for the braciation robot. In the previous work, brachiation controller was composed of two actions: swing-back and locomotion. The purpose of swing-back is to excite robot so as to achieve locomotion successfully. While locomotion action is to move forward by releasing a brun with arm in moving direction and gripping the target brunch with other arm. However, energy efficiency has not been considered in the previous swing-back control, hence we propose a novel method to achieve energy efficient brachiation by exacting a swing-back during locomotion. Experimental results show that the proposed method can improve the locomotion action as much an over 30% in energy consumption","PeriodicalId":121329,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Symposium on MicroNanoMechanical and Human Science","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129326608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Kimura, H. Sakai, T. Yamamoto, Y. Sakai, T. Fujii
{"title":"Development of Micro Perfusion Cell Culture Device to Create In Vivo-Like Environments for Long-Period and Real-Time Monitoring of Cells Activities","authors":"H. Kimura, H. Sakai, T. Yamamoto, Y. Sakai, T. Fujii","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2006.320262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2006.320262","url":null,"abstract":"Although enormous efforts have been consumed to improve in vitro cell-based assays for life science, environmental assessment, medical applications, etc., conventional methods still have many problems, such as large dead volumes, difficulty to maintain constant concentration of nutrition and to remove accumulating waste products in static dish-based culture, etc. In order to solve these problems, it would be a breakthrough to realize miniaturized perfusion cell culture system, which continuously supply nutrition and remove metabolic waste products during cell culture. Such a system would be possible to culture cells for a long period and could monitor chemical response at real-time. This scheme of culture system could innovatively be advanced by coupling the recent microfabrication technology. Here, we have developed and experimentally demonstrated a micro cell culture device embedded with a stirrer-type micropump for on-chip perfusion of culture medium and optical fiber connectors for on-chip and real-time fluorescent detection. The cell culture chamber was separated into two compartments by a polyester-made semi-permeable membrane, which can realize polarized cell culture condition and detect a fluorescent signal movement in-between the two-compartments. As an evaluation of the device, Caco-2 cells were successfully cultured over a period up to 26 days and investigated the activity of P-glycoprotein using a fluorescent dye of Rhodamine-123 as a substrate of P-glycoprotein","PeriodicalId":121329,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Symposium on MicroNanoMechanical and Human Science","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133308905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Tsukahara, Y. Tanaka, N. Takasu, R. Hori, Yingxin He, H. Tatematsu, K. Tatsuno
{"title":"Vision for a Power Distribution Line Maintenance Robot -Environments Input","authors":"K. Tsukahara, Y. Tanaka, N. Takasu, R. Hori, Yingxin He, H. Tatematsu, K. Tatsuno","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2006.320237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2006.320237","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a vision system for a power distribution line maintenance robot. The robot will perform a task, for example, a switch gear installation task automatically. To perform the task, 3D model of work environments are constructed in a computer. Target positions for robot commands are generated using the work environment 3D model. We investigated three methods to superimpose 3D frame models of working environment parts on the photographs: 1) Manually superimposing method by a mouth, 2) Manually pointing method, and 3) Automatically superimposing method.","PeriodicalId":121329,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Symposium on MicroNanoMechanical and Human Science","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123021078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hirotaka Hida, M. Shikida, K. Fukuzawa, A. Ono, Sato Kenji, K. Asaumi, Y. Iriye
{"title":"Quartz tuning-fork type AFM probe operated in Anti-phase Vibration Mode","authors":"Hirotaka Hida, M. Shikida, K. Fukuzawa, A. Ono, Sato Kenji, K. Asaumi, Y. Iriye","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2006.320245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2006.320245","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents that quartz tuning fork shows excellent properties as atomic force microscopy (AFM) probe. We used focused ion beam (FIB) system to monolithically form a sharp tip at the side end of one beam. The fabricated probe can vibrate and detect the deformation itself because of piezoelectric property of crystal quartz. We evaluated the vibration characteristic and the self-detection ability of tuning fork. The tuning fork probe is actuated in two different vibration mode; in-phase and anti-phase mode, and clarified that high Q-factor of 5247 was obtained in anti-phase mode. We further applied this mode for AFM observation and images were successfully with dynamic AFM system","PeriodicalId":121329,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Symposium on MicroNanoMechanical and Human Science","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116384034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fabrication and Characterization of 4-DOF Soft-Contact Tactile Sensor and Application to Robot Fingers","authors":"D. Dao, S. Sugiyama","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2006.320271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2006.320271","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the development and application of a 4-DOF (degree of freedom) soft-contact tactile (SCT) sensor using 6-DOF micro force moment sensing (MFMS) chip. The 6-DOF MFMS chip is working based on the piezoresistive effect in single crystalline silicon and has been fabricated and calibrated completely. The MFMS chip has been packaged to produce a 4-DOF soft-contact tactile sensor, which has the contact part made of silicone rubber. The sensor can independently detect three components of force (Fx', Fy', Fz') and one components of moment (Mz'). The MFMS chip and the SCT sensor have been calibrated. The calibrated sensitivities to Fx, Fy, Fz, Mx, My and Mz components are SFx =0.06(mV/mN), SFy =0.054(mV/mN), SFz = 0.136 (mV/mN), SMx = 1.449 (mV/mum), SMy = 1.451(mV/N|im), and SMz = 0.751(mV/N|im), respectively, (bias voltage Vin = 2V). The sensitivities of the SCT sensor to the forces Fz', Fx' (or Fy') and moment Mz' are 0.085 (mV/mN), 0.039 (mV/mN) and 0.004 (mV/mum), respectively. The outputs were linear and the crosstalk was small. The sensor has been mounted onto robot fingers to sense the forces from gripping operation","PeriodicalId":121329,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Symposium on MicroNanoMechanical and Human Science","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125472820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}