A novel mechanical cochlea "fishbone" with dual sensor/actuator characteristics

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 98-105

  Tanaka, Kenji ^b,c   Abe, Mototsugu ^a,b   Ando, Shigeru ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory sensor; Basilar membrane; Cochlea; Resonator array; Si micromachining

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEMBRANES; MICROMACHINING; RESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

AUDITORY SENSORS; BASILAR MEMBRANES; COCHLEA;

SENSORS;

EID: 0032097255     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3516.686677     Document Type: Article

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