Variable compliance device

Details Variable compliance device Variable compliance device

1986-02-24

1987-06-02

Little, Willis

Geometrical instruments

Area integrators

Electrical

33626, G01B 731

Patent

active

046691928

ABSTRACT:
A variable compliance assembly is disclosed for use in automatic assembly operations. The variable compliance assembly includes a housing having an interior chamber; a base member, positioned on the surface of the interior chamber, moveable in a multi-directional fashion; a fluid spring operably associated with the housing and base member for controlling the multi-directional movement of the base member and for returning the base member to a normal, self-centering seating position; and a mechanism for associating a pressurized fluid source with the fluid spring to vary the amount of control exerted by the fluid spring on the base member.

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Brochure: "Model AST-75 Accommodator": Barry Wright Corp., 2 pages.
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