Rescue hoist end-effector
AssigneeGoodrich Corporation
InventorsAnnina M. Baker Kreiser, David L. Kreiser, Ryan Brown, John Michael Burke, Aidan J. Rischmann
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Abstract
An end-effector for a hoist includes a drive and an articulating arm. The articulating arm includes support disks, control cables extending through the support disks, and a hoist cable extending through the support disks. The drive includes an actuator connected to one of the control cables. The actuator deploys and retracts the control cables, thereby displacing the articulating arm from an end-effector axis. The drive also includes a stabilizer mounted on a drive housing, the stabilizer generates a stabilizing moment in response to the articulating arm displacing from the end-effector axis.
Claims20
An end-effector for a hoist, the end-effector comprising:
- an articulating arm comprising:
- a plurality of support disks;
- a plurality of control cables extending through the plurality of support disks;
- and
- a hoist cable extending through the plurality of support disks;
- and
- a drive comprising:
- an actuator connected to one of the plurality of control cables and configured to deploy and retract the one of the plurality of control cables to displace the articulating arm from an end-effector axis;
- and
- a stabilizer mounted on a drive housing and configured to generate a stabilizing moment in response to the articulating arm displacing from the end-effector axis.
A rescue hoist comprising:
- a hoist housing;
- an effector cable extending from the hoist housing;
- and
- an end-effector disposed at a distal end of the effector cable, the end-effector comprising:
- an articulating arm comprising:
- a plurality of support disks;
- a plurality of control cables extending through the plurality of support disks;
- and
- a hoist cable extending through the plurality of support disks;
- and
- a drive comprising:
- an actuator connected to one of the plurality of control cables and configured to deploy and retract the one of the plurality of control cables to displace the articulating arm from an end-effector axis;
- and
- a stabilizer mounted on a drive housing and configured to generate a stabilizer moment in response to the articulating arm displacing from the end-effector axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.