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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:
May. 03, 1988
Filed:
Dec. 12, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert E Carter, Auburndale, MA (US);
W Porter Stone, Walpole, NH (US);
Assignee:
Piezo Electric Products, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01H / ; G04C / ; A01G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
200 / ; 200 6186 ; 200237 ; 222638 ; 239 70 ;
Abstract
A visco-elastic actuator mechanism including a support section and an actuator section. A visco-elastic adhesive is mounted to one of the sections and is engageable by the other of the sections to hold the actuator in a first state. A spring urges apart one of the sections relative to the other until the actuator is abruptly switched to a second state.