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Fail Safe Industries, Inc.

Peter Maitland

Stanley S Wise

Paul V Camposeo

Gregory Kawczynski

Patrick Tan

A robotic cell, or work area, especially useful for education. The cell has a plurality of interchangable work surfaces for mounting objects that the robot manipulates. Students, researchers, or other workers can thus set up separate experiments that need not be torn down each time a different user begins work with the cell. The cell has safety switches that encourage a user, when near the robot, to keep a hand on the robot so as not to be accidentally injured by the robot's motion. There is also a dead man switch effective to disenable the robot entirely, after a short time delay. The cell has a pneumatic control circuit that enables a user to position the robot's gripper arm at positions intermediate of fully up and fully down.

Educational and laboratory work cell for a robotic device

A creep control valve for keeping vehicle brakes applied is under the control of a digital electronic system which senses the vehicle speed and whether the accelerator pedal is depressed or released. The creep control is enabled only after the vehicle speed is between 3 and 24 miles per hour and then drops below 6 miles per hour with the accelerator pedal released. The creep control is disabled whenever the accelerator pedal is depressed or the vehicle speed is above 6 miles per hour or there is a failure of the speed resolver which senses the vehicle speed. The creep control includes a key-operated anti-theft circuit which keeps the brakes on if an incorrect key is inserted.

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Pompano Beach, FL, United States of America

Peter Maitland