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| Patent No.: | US 5,539,291 |
| Title: | Parallel-Structure Manipulator Device for Displacing and Orienting an Object in a Cylindrical Work Space |
| Inventor(s): | Claude Reboulet |
| Applicant(s): | Office National d'Etudes ed Recherches Aerospatiales, France |
| Issued/Filed: | July 23, 1996 / February 21, 1995 |
| Note: | a 3-DOF spatial pick-and-place robot
(www.dappolonia.it/TECTRANS/robotics/Robo15.htm),
(http://www.cert.fr/francais/dcsd/DCSDPUB/ROBPARAL/node4.html) |
| Similar Pats.: | EP 0 668 130 B1 |
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| Patent No.: | EP 0 491 613 B1 |
| Title: | Manipulating Device for Moving an Object in Space, for instance Parallel to Itself |
| Inventor(s): | Claude Reboulet and Claude Lambert |
| Applicant(s): | Office National d'Etudes ed Recherches Aerospatiales, France |
| Issued/Filed: | April 27, 1994 / December 16, 1991 |
| Note: | the "Speed-R-MAN" a 3-DOF assembly robot for translations only
(www.cert.fr/francais/dcsd/DCSDPUB/ROBPARAL/node3.html) |
| Similar Pats.: | US 5,219,266,
EP 0 491 613 B1 |
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| Patent No.: | US 5,906,461 |
| Title: | Machine Tool With Adjustable Strut Assembly |
| Inventor(s): | Erich Lunz, Helmut Bode, and Jean-Marie Eder |
| Applicant(s): | INA Walzlager Schaeffler oHG, Herzogenaurach, Germany |
| Issued/Filed: | May 25, 1999 / July 1, 1998 |
| Note: | a generalization (?) of Ingersoll's "Octahedral Hexapod" a 5-axis PKM |
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| Patent No.: | US 5,179,525 |
| Title: | Method and Apparatus for Controlling Geometrically Simple Parallel Mechanisms with Distinctive Connections |
| Inventor(s): | Michael W. Griffis and Joseph Duffy |
| Applicant(s): | Univerisy of Florida, Gainesville, FL |
| Issued/Filed: | January 12, 1993 / May 1, 1990 |
| Note: | a 6-DOF parallel manipulator with closed-form direct kinematics
(cimar.me.ufl.edu/CIMAR/) |
| Similar Pats.: | WO 91/17536 A1 |
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| Patent No.: | US 5,378,282 |
| Title: | Robotic Tool Manipulating Apparatus |
| Inventor(s): | Willard L. Pollard |
| Applicant(s): | none |
| Issued/Filed: | January 3, 1995 / June 28, 1993 |
| Note: | a 3-DOF planar parallel manipulator with fixed linear actuators |
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