Tactile System Products

Tactors are small transducers, designed to optimize skin response to vibration. These devices are used to provide communication to replace or supplement audio and visual input, especially under circumstances where audio and visual cues can be missed. EAI's electromechanical tactors provide orders of magnitude increase in output over prior devices of this type, while still being small, lightweight and reliable. EAI has developed a range of Tactors and a variety of driver boards that make Tactile Displays and Tactile Situation Awareness Systems (TSAS) viable for a variety of demanding military, medical and commercial applications.

Physiology of Tactors and Haptics

Research Publication on Vibrotactile Transduction and Transducers
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Tactor Products

C2 Tactor

The standard C2 Tactor design is centered around a rugged, low profile package with nominal center frequency of 250 Hz. The skin contactor is 0.3" in diameter and is pre-loaded when the face of the Tactor is placed against the skin. Nominal impedance is 7 ohms. View data sheet (152KB PDF).

Low Frequency Tactor

EAI manufactures several low frequency Tactors, which are electrically similar to the C2 model, but are designed to operated at frequencies below 100 Hz. The LF Tactors are slightly larger (thicker) than the C2 Tactors.

Experimental New Technologies -
High Efficiency / Low Mass / High Output.

Tactor Control Systems
Tactor control electronics can be custom built to your specifications, including complete rack mount systems with medical grade power supplies for medical and lab applications or large distributed systems to support entertainment and simulation.

Tactor Eval 2.0 8-Channel Controller
Capable of controlling up to 8 C2 Tactors. View data sheet (256KB PDF)