Thomas G. Cooper;S. Christopher Anderson;Dustin Williams;Stacey Chang;Daniel T. Wallace;Scott Manzo
发明人:
Thomas G. Cooper,Daniel T. Wallace,Stacey Chang,S. Christopher Anderson,Dustin Williams,Scott Manzo
申请号：
US13414445
公开号：
US20120220831A1
申请日:
2012.03.07
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要：
The present invention is directed to a tool having a wrist mechanism that provides pitch and yaw rotation in such a way that the tool has no singularity in roll, pitch, and yaw. A positively positionable multi-disk wrist mechanism includes a plurality of disks or vertebrae stacked in series. Each vertebra is configured to rotate in pitch or in yaw with respect to each neighboring vertebra. Actuation cables are used to manipulate and control movement of the vertebrae. In specific embodiments, some of the cables are distal cables that extend from a proximal vertebra through one or more intermediate vertebrae to a distal vertebra, while the remaining cables are medial cables that extend from the proximal vertebra to one or more of the intermediate vertebrae. The cables are actuated by a pivoted plate cable actuator mechanism.
