Abstract
This paper deals with tweezers for a mass detection during micromanipulation. It measures 52 mm×30 mm×10 mm and weighs 37 g. Each finger consists of a bimorph piezoelectric actuator with a stainless steel tip. One of the tweezers working as a vibrator was oscillated at its resonance frequency, and another working as a grasper opened and closed the gap between the tips of the bimorph piezoelectric actuators. The simulation model that represents the contact of two beams and a lumped mass as springs was described. The resonance frequency was increased when the tweezers grasped an object. The relationship between the mass of the object and frequency was obtained experimentally. Because the charge generated by the piezoelectric effect also affected the resonance frequency, the frequency change in the experiments was smaller than that in the simulation.
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