Support device
AssigneesHONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsJin-Shi Lai, Yung-Hung Chu
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Abstract
A support device adjustable in 3-DOF includes a base, a pitching arm, a rolling arm, a yawing arm, a pitching drive unit, a rolling drive unit, a yawing drive unit, and a controller. The rolling arm rotatably interconnects the pitching arm and the yawing arm. The pitching, rolling, and yawing drive units are configured for automatically driving the pitching, rolling, and yawing arms about pitch, roll, and yaw axes respectively. The roll axis is perpendicular to the pitch and yaw axes. The controller is configured for controlling the pitching, rolling and yawing drive units in response to control inputs. In use, a display panel can be attached to the yawing arm and automatically pitch, roll, and/or yaw by the respective drive units under control of the controller, to achieve an optimum viewing angle.
Claims8
A support device adjustable in three degrees of freedom, the support device comprising:
- a base;
- a pitching arm rotatably fixed to the base and capable of rotating about a pitch axis;
- a rolling arm rotatably coupled to the pitching arm and capable of rotating about a roll axis substantially perpendicular to the pitch axis;
- a yawing arm rotatably coupled to the rolling arm and capable of rotating about a yawn axis substantially perpendicular to the roll axis;
- a pitching drive unit configured for rotating the pitching arm about the pitch axis;
- a rolling drive unit configured for rotating the rolling arm about the roll axis;
- a yawing drive unit configured for rotating the yawing arm about the yaw axis;
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- a controller configured for controlling the pitching drive unit, the rolling drive unit, and the yawing drive unit in response to control inputs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.