TACTILE SENSOR

PURPOSE:To provide a sensor capable of sufficiently exhibiting the function as a tactile by providing such a constitution as certainly detecting not only the pressure vertically acting onto the surface of a pressure sensitive conductive elastomer sheet but also the pressure acting thereto in oblique direction or parallel direction, and also judging the directionality of the pressure. CONSTITUTION:A contact 4 is formed of a face-formed body 9 having a pressing surface 9a formed thereon and a contact protruding part 10 protruded on the face-formed body 9. The contact 4 is elastically supported so that a pressure acts on a pressure sensitive conductive elastomer sheet 2 from the pressing surface 9a, and the contact protruding part 10 is protruded outward from the surface of the pressure sensitive conductive elastomer sheet 2 or an insulating outer skin 3 covering this. The electric resistance change of the pressure sensitive conductive elastomer sheet 2 by the action of the pressure onto the contact protruding part 10 is taken from an electrode 6.