Patent ID: 8459623
Filing Date: 2013-06-11
Classification: B25J,G01N

Abstract:
1. A powered grip for engaging and holding an item, said grip comprising: a primary body member, an actuator dependent from said primary body member, a pair of spaced apart clamp jaws movable towards and away from each other and configured to clamp onto said item, a force transmission mechanism coupling said actuator and said pair of clamp jaws to displace said clamp jaws relative the primary body and to establish, at the clamp jaws, a clamp force which is a multiplication of an actuator force of the actuator by a factor greater than zero, a force transmission mechanism geometry adjuster configured to adjust a geometry of the force transmission mechanism in order to vary a spacing between the clamp jaws to thereby, for a given actuator force applied by the actuator to the force transmission mechanism, allow a pre-clamping setting of the spacing between the jaws such that a range of the clamp force applied by the clamp jaws to the item to be clamped is within a desired range, wherein said force transmission mechanism includes at least one pivot point that remains fixed to said primary body member, and said force transmission mechanism is rotatable about the at least one pivot point in a manner to establish said multiplication of the actuator force at the clamp jaws.