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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:
Dec. 13, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Antonios E Prentakis, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
Teradyne, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K / ; B65G / ; B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
294-11 ; 414730 ; 414781 ; 29740 ;
Abstract
Compliant linkage apparatus for providing, in a single stage, three degrees of freedom in a single plane, the apparatus comprising an upper plate, a lower plate under the upper plate, sliding means for allowing the upper and lower plates to slide relative to each other in X, Y, and theta, and orientation means for causing the plates to attract each other in a particular orientation to resiliently resist relative lateral and rotational displacements of the plates.