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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:
Apr. 18, 1989
Filed:
Jun. 10, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark E Rosheim, St. Paul, MN (US);
Hans W Trechsel, Rockford, MN (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
79479 ; 902 28 ; 294106 ;
Abstract
A robot joint having a ball-like arrangement on a support, the ball arrangement positioned in a socket device in which the ball is free to move so the socket device can rotate in various directions about the ball arrangement. First and second connectors connect force imparting arrangements to fixed points in the socket device. One of these force imparting arrangements is capable of approaching or receding from the other in some rotations of the socket device.