Robotic hand and method for manipulating printed circuit boards
CA 1264173 C · Owner: Fairchild Camera And Instrument Corporation · Inventors: Matrone, John L.
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Abstract, Three sets of pincer units depend from a flat palm, each pincer unit having a pinching yap at its distal end for engaging a loaded circuit board by its edges and holding it in a spaced-apart relationship with the palm. Each pincer unit includes a finger having a flange at its distal end and a thumb slideably mounted on the finger so as to define a variable pinching gap. The fingers are mounted for prehensiling movement away from one another for bracketing a board to be picked up and toward one another so that the board to be picked up may be squeezed between them. The invention includes a method for picking up a loaded circuit board which involves bracketing a board to be picked …
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- Granted January 2, 1990. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended January 2, 2007.
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