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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 01, 1998
Joseph M Schimmels, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Shuguang Huang, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Other;
Abstract
A mechanism capable of achieving an arbitrarily specified spatial compliant behavior is presented. The mechanism is a parallel connection of multiple individual elastic components that connect a support body to a single compliantly floated body. Each elastic component is, in itself, a low friction 6 degrees of freedom (DOF) mechanism that provides compliant constraint along and/or about a single axis. The elastic components are of three functional types: 1) a 'line spring' which resists only translation along its axis, 2) a 'torsional spring' which resists only rotation about its axis, and 3) a 'screw spring' which resists a specified combination of translation along and rotation about its axis. Through proper selection of the connection geometry, spring constant, and functional type of each elastic component, a spatial compliant mechanism capable of passive force guidance is realized.