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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2017
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Elliot W. Hawkes, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
David L. Christensen, Glendale, CA (US);
Mark R. Cutkosky, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Srinivasan Arul Suresh, Stanford, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a shear gripper device using fibrillar, gecko-inspired adhesives that have the characteristics of being non-tacky in its default state and requiring no normal force to grip a surface. The adhesion is turned 'on' by the applied shear load, and 'off as the shear load is removed. The shear adhesive gripper is able to grasp large, deformable or delicate objects using a delicate touch.