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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
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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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