Passive mating system
AssigneeThe Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
InventorThomas L. De Fazio
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Abstract
A passive mating system for aligning and engaging a tool device with a workpiece including: a remote center compliance device; guide structure for movably supporting the tool device, the remote center compliance device having a remote center proximate the end of the guide structure; structure for supporting the remote center compliance device; and a feeding device for providing relative motion between the tool device and the guide structure in the remote compliance device, to advance and retract the tool device through the remote center compliance device.
Claims13
A passive mating system for aligning and engaging a tool device with a workpiece, comprising:
- a remote center compliance device;
- means for supporting said remote center compliance device;
- guide means carried by said remote center compliance device for movably supporting said tool device, said remote center compliance device having a remote center proximate the end of said guide means;
- and
- means for providing relative motion between the tool device and said guide means to advance and retract said tool device.
The mating system of clim 1 in which said guide means includes a passage through said remote center compliance device and a bearing member intermediate said tool device and said passage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.