Apparatus for a compact adjustable passive compliant mechanism

Patent · Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 EDT 2015

OSTI ID:1172764

Salisbury, Curt Michael

Various technologies described herein pertain to an adjustable compliance apparatus. The adjustable compliance apparatus includes a shaft, a sleeve element, and a torsion spring. The sleeve element includes a bore there through, where the shaft is positioned through the bore of the sleeve element. Further, the torsion spring includes a plurality of coils, where the shaft is positioned through the plurality of coils. Moreover, the sleeve element is slidable in an axial direction along the shaft between the torsion spring and the shaft. Accordingly, compliance of the adjustable compliance apparatus is adjustable based on a number of the plurality of coils in contact with the sleeve element as positioned along the shaft within the torsion spring.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• Assignee: Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM)
• Patent Number(s): 8,979,080
• Application Number: 13/525,451
• OSTI ID: 1172764
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: 2012 Jun 18
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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