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| Patent No.: | US 5,476,357 |
| Title: | Micromanipulator |
| Inventor(s): | Tatsuo Arai |
| Applicant(s): | Agency of Industrial Science & Technology, Tokyo, Japan |
| Issued/Filed: | December 19, 1995 / March 25, 1994 |
| Note: | a double hexapod chopsticks surgical micromanipulator
(staff.aist.go.jp/tamio.tanikawa/project/micro-j.html) |
| Similar Pats.: | US 5,651,574 |
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| Patent No.: | US 5,341,289 |
| Title: | Method for controlling three degree of freedom actuator system |
| Inventor(s): | Jason J. Lee |
| Applicant(s): | United Parcel Service of America, Inc. |
| Issued/Filed: | August 23, 1994 / February 5, 1993 |
| Note: | a method for controlling a wrist mechanism |
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| Patent No.: | US 6,223,618 |
| Title: | Device for driving a robot hand |
| Inventor(s): | Alwin Berninger and Wolfgang Bohlken |
| Applicant(s): | Kuka Roboter GmbH |
| Issued/Filed: | May 1, 2001 / April 15, 1999 |
| Note: | a 2-DOF planar parallel linkage |
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| Patent No.: | US 5,823,906 |
| Title: | Nutation motion generator |
| Inventor(s): | James Ashburn, Steven W. Peterson, and Alvin M. Strauss |
| Applicant(s): | Vanderbilt University |
| Issued/Filed: | October 20, 1998 / January 2, 1997 |
| Note: | a 3-DOF spherical parallel robot |
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| Patent No.: | EP 0 494 565 A1 |
| Title: | Device for moving an object in a translational way in space, especially for a mechanical robot |
| Inventor(s): | Jacques Hervé |
| Applicant(s): | Ecole centrale des arts et des manufactures |
| Issued/Filed: | July 15, 1992 / December 23, 1991 |
| Note: | the "STAR Robot" a 3-DOF translational parallel robot |
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