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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:
Feb. 28, 1989
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Wayne H Domeier, Allston, MA (US);
Laurence D Chin, West Newton, MA (US);
Assignee:
Barry Wright Corporation, Newton Lower Falls, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ; G01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364513 ; 324251 ; 901 32 ; 901 39 ; 901 46 ;
Abstract
An electromechanical manipulator including gripper elements provided with a plurality of fingers and a sensing element provided for each of the fingers to sense their relative position. The sensing means includes at least one Hall effect element disposed in the body of the gripper element. A magnet element is oriented in a bipolar slide-by mode with respect to the Hall effect element and is disposed for movement with one of the fingers of a gripper element.