Virtual swivel device with movement limitation
AssigneeEb-Invent GmbH
InventorFranz EHRENLEITNER
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Abstract
A virtual device for the limited pivoting of an object about a base virtual pivot point by means of a pivoting device, where a limiting device is provided for the pivoting angle. The virtual device is a mechanically stable and yet space-saving limiting device that is rotatable about an outer axis on the base and about an outer axis (23′) rotatable on the object, or on the slide, where the limiting device limits the distance and/or the angular position of the two axes relative to one another, with the proviso that the axes always occupy the same plane.
Claims6
1-5. (canceled)
A limiting device to limit a pivot angle of a pivoting device, the pivoting device being configured to pivot an object about a virtual pivot point relative to a base;
- wherein the limiting device is rotatably mounted on the base so as to rotate about a first outer axis;
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- the limiting device is additionally rotatably mounted on the object or on a carrier for the object so as to rotate about a second outer axis;
- wherein the limiting device limits at least one of a distance and an angular position between the first and second outer axes, provided that the first and second outer axes always share a common plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.