B25J 9/0015
Flexure members, i.e. parts of manipulators having a narrowed section allowing articulation
Official title: {Flexure members, i.e. parts of manipulators having a narrowed section allowing articulation by flexion}
B25J9/0015 (Flexure members, i.e. parts of manipulators having a narrowed section allowing articulation) appears on 157 US grants and 185 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B25J- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Asymmetric six-degree-of-freedom force-transducer system for a computer-controlled manipulator system148US 4,132,318 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1979
- Mass transfer tool manipulator assembly98US 9,308,649 B2LuxVue Techonology Corporation · 2016
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- System, method, and apparatus to perform a surface inspection using real-time position information71US 10,481,608 B2Gecko Robotics, Inc. · 2019
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