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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2021
Applicant:
Energy Vault, Inc., Pasadena, CA (US);
Inventors:
Andrea Pedretti, Bellinzona, CH;
Ernst Carlos Rohner, Oberkulm, CH;
Assignee:
Energy Vault, Inc., Westlake Village, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B66C 1/66 (2006.01); B66C 1/06 (2006.01); F03G 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B66C 1/06 (2013.01); F03G 3/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A grabber used, for example in the lifting and lowering of blocks, includes one or more arms with a damped self-centering mechanism at a distal end thereof. The damped self-centering mechanism dampen a contact force received thereon and facilitates a self-centering of the damped self-centering mechanism relative to a surface of, for example, a block when the grabber is moved relative to the block (e.g., when the arms are lowered through bores in the block).