Oceaneering International, Inc.

Richard Eugene Shafer

William Claude Robertson

A rigidizing latch assembly comprises a robotically compatible aerospace attachment mechanism which comprises a male latch and a receptacle configured to cooperatively couple. The male latch comprises a male latch housing and a latch assembly movably disposed within the male latch housing; a driver operatively in communication with a latch support; a male latch core; a driver interface access port; and one or more extraction feet operatively in communication with the driver. The receptacle comprises a receptacle housing sized to receive a lower portion of the male latch housing; a positioning target adapted to provide a visual positioning targeting cue; and one or more latch interfaces dimensioned to releasably mate with a corresponding lead-in guide of the plurality of lead-in guides.

Rigidizing latch assembly

A manipulator joint includes an encoder having a body and shaft. The encoder body may be fixed to a first housing and the encoder shaft may be fixed to a second housing. The second housing is separate from, distal to, and rotatable with respect to the first housing. Rotation of the second housing may be about a common axis shared with the first housing. A hollow driveshaft, rotatably coupled to the second housing, extends across the joint from the second to the first housing. A torque limiter may be fixedly coupled to the second housing and releasably coupled to the driveshaft. The encoder may be configured to output an absolute angular position of the first housing with respect to the second housing. A method of detecting an over-torque condition of the manipulator joint includes transmitting commands from a processor to the drive motor and receiving data from the encoder.

Electric manipulator joint

The present invention is directed to a robot compatible crystal worksite suite comprising a unique dewar, a plurality of magazines, a plurality of cryo-pins (that mount crystals to be transferred from the dewar for crystallography study) adapted to be placed into the magazines and a programmed controller to provide the operational sequence necessary to remove the frozen mounted crystals from the dewar to an instrument or a goniometer for the x-ray diffraction of the crystals.

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Webster, TX, United States of America

Richard Eugene Shafer