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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2013
Applicant:
Ramot AT Tel-aviv University Ltd., Tel Aviv, IL;
Inventors:
Viacheslav Krylov, Holon, IL;
Tsvi Shmilovich, Tel Aviv, IL;
Assignee:
Ramot at Tel-Aviv University Ltd., Tel Aviv, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B81B 5/00 (2006.01); B81B 7/02 (2006.01); H02N 1/00 (2006.01); G02B 26/08 (2006.01); B81B 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 26/0841 (2013.01); H02N 1/008 (2013.01); H02N 1/006 (2013.01); B81B 3/0018 (2013.01); B81B 3/0021 (2013.01);
Abstract
A tunable tilting device is described. The device includes a tilting element and a suspension structure that has one or more flexures coupled to the tilting element. The suspension structure has a variable bending stiffness and configured to bend due to a tilting motion of the tilting element around a pivot axis. The suspension structure is responsive to a tuning force actuating a variation of an extension stress or a compression stress of the suspension structure, and thereby can vary the bending stiffness of the suspension structure.