Pneumatic device for the actuation of organs
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- Status: disponibile a cessione o licenza
- Patent type: Brevetti
- Priority Number: 102015000028263
- Subject The Biorobotics institute
- Technologic Area: Biomedical
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- Assignees: Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Istituto Italiano Tecnologia
- Inventors: Matteo Cianchetti, Paolo Dario, Cecilia Laschi, Barbara Mazzolai, Hassan Taimoor Shan Syed
The device offered is a pneumatic braided muscle actuator, able to produce bi-directional force and motion, and variable stiffness. Pneumatic muscles are generally preferred thanks to their high power to weight ratio, light weight, ease of installation, hazard-free use and inherent compliance. The existing/traditional pneumatic muscle actuators has a fixed braid fiber angle and are usually able to produce a pulling uni-directional force when actuated. Conversely this actuator is able to achieve variable stiffness depending on the braid angle...other