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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:
Aug. 11, 1987
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:
Larry Huetsch, Rockford, IL (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B66C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
414729 ; 901 15 ; 901 25 ; 901 26 ; 74664 ; 192 20 ;
Abstract
An industrial robot has a base and the mechanical links of a shoulder, arm and hand joined in series with a waist joint, shoulder joint, wrist roll joint and wrist pivot joint. A clutch mechanism is associated with each joint, and continuously spinning shafting extends through all the links and joints. The clutch mechanisms each take power upon electronic command from the shafting to power the joints and move the links relative to each other.