Patent ID: 6175170
Filing Date: 2001-01-16
Classification: B81B,F16H,H02N

Abstract:
A pivotless compliant structure formed on a substrate for receiving an input displacement at one end thereof from a motive source, and generating a multiplied displacement therefrom for provision to a load, the pilotless compliant structure comprising:(a) a plurality of flexible beams each attached at one end thereof to the substrate, with the other end of each of the flexible beams being moveable;(b) an input beam connected between the motive source and a first flexible beam;(c) an output beam connected between the load and a second flexible beam; and(d) a plurality of cross-beams interconnecting the first flexible beam to the second flexible beam, with each of the cross-beams further being connected between the moveable ends of an adjacent pair of the plurality of flexible beams, with each of the flexible beams, input beam, output beam, and cross-beams being formed, at least in part, of polycrystalline silicon or silicon nitride.