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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2019
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, JP;
Hiroyuki Miyamoto, Kitakyushu, JP;
Yoshiki Matsumoto, Kitakyushu, JP;
KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Kitakyushu, JP;
Abstract
A spherical body drive type movement deviceincludes rotary bodies, androtating n number of driving spherical bodies, andby being rotationally driven in a state of being in contact from two different directions with each of the driving spherical bodies, and, and moves on a traveling surface G. The rotary bodies, andcome into contact with the driving spherical bodies, andat positions higher than centers P, P, and Pof the driving spherical bodies, andin contact and inside a virtual inverted n-gonal pyramid H or, at positions higher than the centers P, P, and Pof the driving spherical bodies, andin contact and on lateral faces α, β, and γ of the virtual inverted n-gonal pyramid H.