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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 1985
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:
Theodore W Leverett, Concord, NC (US);
Bela Musits, Concord, NC (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
414730 ; 901 31 ;
Abstract
Changeable finger tools for the gripper of an object manipulator are held in place by a self-releasing detent supplemented by frictional forces produced by the gripper. The retention technique enables fast, efficient automatic changing of the finger tools.