Patent ID: 8542450

Claim:
An apparatus configured as a two-axis, optical mount comprising: a first rigid element having a comparatively large section modulus; a first set of flexural elements extending from the first rigid element to a second rigid element; the second rigid element having a section modulus comparable with that of the first rigid element, and orders of magnitude greater than the section modulus of the first set of flexural elements; a second set of flexural elements having a section modulus comparable to that of the first set of flexural elements, and orders of magnitude below the section modulus of the first and second rigid elements; a third rigid element having a section modulus comparable to that of the first and second rigid elements, and order of magnitude higher than the section modulus operable in the first and second flexural elements; and the first, second, and third rigid elements and the first and second sets of flexural elements, further being homogeneously formed of a single material, resulting in a monolithic optical mount having joint-free continuity of the single material from the first, through the second, to the third rigid element.