Electricity: motive power systems – Positional servo systems – Program- or pattern-controlled systems
Patent
1991-06-26
1992-10-20
Ip, Paul
Electricity: motive power systems
Positional servo systems
Program- or pattern-controlled systems
318574, 395 80, 901 15, 180 81, 446299, G05B 1922
Patent
active
051573164
ABSTRACT:
A robotic joint for use in toys to provide locomotion to animated figures, sub-assemblies, and toy construction building sets. The robotic joint is particularly adaptable because one side of the joint carries the motor that is powering the joint. It also provides for four-way action in a joint in a very compact space by attaching a motorized joint directly to the shaft of another motor. It can also provide up to eight-way action in a joint, since each motor turns the shaft or turns the motor housing based on the amount of resistance applied to the shaft. This can be demonstrated in a joint that is used to support a foot in which the foot has a motor for locomotion, and the limb has a motor for locomotion connected by a four-way joint.
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Ip Paul
Lanquist, Jr. Edward D.
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