Conductive polymer actuator
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1. A conductive polymer actuator, comprising:
- a first conductive polymer film and a second conductive polymer film connected via an electrolyte holding layer;
a first displacement extraction member connected to the first conductive polymer film; and
a second displacement extraction member connected to the second conductive polymer film, wherein the first displacement extraction member and the second displacement extraction member are arranged to have a different displacement direction, and the first and second displacement extraction members are connected in such a way that a swell-directional displacement of one member is reciprocally converted to a shrinkage-directional displacement of the other member to give a potential difference to between the first conductive polymer film and the second conductive polymer film, so that one of the first conductive polymer film and the second conductive polymer film swells while the other shrinks by an oxidation-reduction reaction.
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Two conductive polymer films, one of which swells and the other of which shrinks by an oxidation-reduction reaction, are connected to a link mechanism for reciprocally converting shrinkage-directional displacements of one film to swell-directional displacements of the other film, so that driving force in the expansion direction of one conductive polymer film can be generated by driving force in contraction direction of the other conductive polymer film.
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1. A conductive polymer actuator, comprising:
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a first conductive polymer film and a second conductive polymer film connected via an electrolyte holding layer;
a first displacement extraction member connected to the first conductive polymer film; and
a second displacement extraction member connected to the second conductive polymer film, wherein the first displacement extraction member and the second displacement extraction member are arranged to have a different displacement direction, and the first and second displacement extraction members are connected in such a way that a swell-directional displacement of one member is reciprocally converted to a shrinkage-directional displacement of the other member to give a potential difference to between the first conductive polymer film and the second conductive polymer film, so that one of the first conductive polymer film and the second conductive polymer film swells while the other shrinks by an oxidation-reduction reaction. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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