Motorola Corporation

Sunil Lakhani

Jerrold S Pine

Gary K Blitman

Stanley Renteria

A pick and place machine (30) having morphing vacuum tip (10) comprises a chamber (24) having a sealed first port (25), a filter (22) on a second port (27), and a vacuum (12) on a third port (23), a needle (28) pierced through the sealed first port and through the filter on the second port, wherein a vacuum (14) is placed on the portion of the needle piercing through the sealed first port. Finally, the morphing vacuum tip additionally comprises a non-porous bag (18) having a plurality of fine particles (16) within the bag and an external portion of the bag surrounding a periphery of a portion of the needle pierced through the filter on the second port, the non-porous bag having an open portion being exposed to an external side of the filter on the second port of the chamber, wherein the vacuum on the third port sucks air out of the non-porous bag and the filter prevents the plurality of fine particles from entering the chamber.

Apparatus for picking and placing components using a morphing vacuum tip

An apparatus for multi-axis rotational motion includes a spherical structure (102) and a housing (104), the housing (104) at least partially enclosing the spherical structure (102) and movably coupled thereto. Magnetically compliant poles (106, 107, 108, 109) are mechanically coupled to one of the spherical structure (102) and the housing (104), and a magnetic drive mechanism (114) is mechanicanically coupled to the other one of the spherical structure (102) and the housing (104) for magnetically imparting up to substantially 360 degrees of rotational motion between the spherical structure (102) and the housing (104) in multiple axes by magnetically interacting with the magnetically compliant poles (106, 107, 108, 109). Optionally, at least one of the spherical structure (102) and the housing (104) couples the rotational motion to another object (1906) mechanically coupled thereto via surface coupling.

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Sunil Lakhani