Guang-Zhong Yang,David Paul Noonan,Jianzhong Shang,Valentina Vitiello
申请号：
US13380005
公开号：
US08974375B2
申请日:
2010.06.24
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2015
代理人:
摘要：
An actuatable joint is disclosed having a transmission member, for example a ring gear, associated with a member of a joint and rotatable about a longitudinal axis through the member. In particular a two degree of freedom actuatable joint is disclosed comprising tendon driven joint arrangements having a transmission member disposed around or inside a body of the joint arrangement, to provide transmission of a force from a driving means to two tendons actuating a rotational degree of freedom of the joint arrangement. Further disclosed is a segmented device, for example an endoscope, comprising a plurality of such joints, for example to define a flexible and steerable conduit for an instrument.
