Aerovironment, Inc.

Surgical Concept Designs, Llc.

John A Griecci

Derek Lisoski

Greg T Kendall

Walter Ray Morgan

Christopher P Scott

Jason R Cahayla

Richard A Modes

A span-loaded, highly flexible flying wing, having horizontal control surfaces mounted aft of the wing on extended beams to form local pitch-control devices. Each of five spanwise wing segments of the wing has one or more motors and photovoltaic arrays, and produces its own lift independent of the other wing segments, to minimize inter-segment loads. Wing dihedral is controlled by separately controlling the local pitch-control devices consisting of a control surface on a boom, such that inboard and outboard wing segment pitch changes relative to each other, and thus relative inboard and outboard lift is varied.

Active dihedral control system for a torsionally flexible wing

Active dihedral control system for a torisionally flexible wing

A clamp for attaching a medical device to an OR table rail, including two closable clamp jaws that close to an extreme position that leaves inadequate room for the rail. A handle actuates the jaws apart, and a spring biases them together through a range of jaw positions. A lock member is biased to swing through a range of lock positions in which it progressively engages and locks the jaw mechanism through its range of jaw positions. A pair of bars carries the medical device on the clamp, and allows it to be adjustably positioned with respect to the rail.

Rail clamp

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Redondo Beach, CA, United States of America

John A Griecci