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Subject:
Compliant structure with reversal effect
System:
Pneumatic actuated structure consisting of highly elastic material with reversal effect
Application:
• single and cascaded fingers for external and internal gripping, particularly with a behaviour, which has an unchanged parameter u for pressure rise (broken line); less sensory effort for a gripping an object
• lever for the force transmission
• legs for a walking robots
• monolithic robot arms

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Contact person:
Prof. L. Zentner

Subject:
Compliant finger gripper
System:
Compliant gripper with material coherent joints actuated by a pneumatic drive
Application:
• external and internal gripping by single or cascaded finger
• touch finger
• lever for the force transmission
• legs for a walking robots
• monolithic robot arms

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Contact person:
Prof. L. Zentner

Subject:
Monolithic compliant gripper
System:
monolithic, pneumatic driven gripper with distributed compliance
Application:
• outside-gripper
• for sensitive picking of thin-skinned, damageable items, e. G. eggs

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Contact person:
Dr. S. Griebel

Subject:
Compliant gripper with embedded sensors
System:
a compliant gripper with embedded sensors
Application:
external or between gripper with rough estimation of the shape or the dimensions of the object

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Contact person:
Prof. L. Zentner

Subject:
Compliant gripper with embedded sensors
System:
a compliant gripper with embedded sensors
Application:
external or between gripper with rough estimation of the shape or the dimensions of the object

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Contact person:
Prof. L. Zentner

Subject:
Compliant joining structure with embedded sensor elements
System:
compliant joining structure with embedded sensor elements made of conductive silicone rubber
Application:
for soft robotic joint

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Contact person:
Prof. L. Zentner

Subject:
Safety-valve for gas piping systems
System:
radial arranged plate spring elements under pretension (pre-stress)
Application:
• solenoid impulse valve
• overload pressure valve

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Contact person:
Prof. L. Zentner

Subject:
Safety-valve for gas piping systems
System:
radial arranged plate spring elements under pretension (pre-stress)
Application:
• solenoid impulse valve
• overload pressure valve

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Contact person:
Prof. L. Zentner

Subject:
Thermally controlled air bleed valve for solar heat installations
System:
Multiple curved diaphragm under pressure
Application:
Vent valve

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Contact person:
Prof. L. Zentner

Subject:
Thermally controlled air bleed valve for solar heat installations
System:
Multiple curved diaphragm under pressure
Application:
Vent valve

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Contact person:
Prof. L. Zentner

Subject:
Adaptive anti-decubitus-support-device I
System:
An adaptive tissue with pressure-controlled stiffness and integrated sensors
Application:
main goal is a preventive human health protection through decubitus prophylaxis

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Contact person:
Prof. L. Zentner

Subject:
Adaptive anti-decubitus-support-device I
System:
An adaptive tissue with pressure-controlled stiffness and integrated sensors
Application:
main goal is a preventive human health protection through decubitus prophylaxis

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Contact person:
Prof. L. Zentner

Subject:
Adaptive anti-decubitus-support-device II
System:
An adaptive tissue with pressure-controlled stiffness and integrated sensors
Application:
main goal is a preventive human health protection through decubitus prophylaxis

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Contact person:
Prof. L. Zentner

Subject:
Adaptive anti-decubitus-support-device II
System:
An adaptive tissue with pressure-controlled stiffness and integrated sensors
Application:
main goal is a preventive human health protection through decubitus prophylaxis

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Contact person:
Prof. L. Zentner

Subject:
Compliant EEG cap with fluid mechanical actuators
System:
Compliant, mechatronic system for biomedical sensor placement
Application:
• EEG measurement in research and hospital
• new application fields, like Brain-Computer-Interface

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Contact person:
Dr. S. Griebel

Subject:
Compliant EEG cap with fluid mechanical actuators
System:
Compliant, mechatronic system for biomedical sensor placement
Application:
• EEG measurement in research and hospital
• new application fields, like Brain-Computer-Interface

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Contact person:
Dr. S. Griebel

Subject:
Compliant linkage mechanism for rectilinear guiding
System:
Compliant mechanism with four prismatic flexure hinges
Application:
• precision applications in Micromechanical Systems Technology, Precision Engineering and Measurement Technology
• increasingly high-precision motion systems in medical engineering and robotics

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Contact person:
Prof. L. Zentner

Subject:
Compliant linkage mechanism for rectilinear guiding
System:
Compliant mechanism with four prismatic flexure hinges
Application:
• precision applications in Micromechanical Systems Technology, Precision Engineering and Measurement Technology
• increasingly high-precision motion systems in medical engineering and robotics

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Contact person:
Prof. L. Zentner

Subject:
Energy-efficient, adaptive suction gripper with sensor system
system System:
Monolithic, multiple folded, one fold uses a snap-through effect (mechanical instability), pneumatically driven, structure consists of conductive & non-conductive sections, energy-saving
Application:
The suction gripper is suitable for use in cleanrooms as well as in the packaging industry for gripping, manipulating and transporting medical and pharmaceutical products.

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Contact person:
Dr. S. Griebel

Subject: energy-efficient adaptive suction pad with sensor system System: monolithic, multiple folds, one fold with punch-through effect (mechanical instability), pneumatically driven, consists of conductive & non-conductive structural sections, energy-saving Application: - Use in clean rooms as well as in the packaging industry for gripping, manipulating and transporting medical and pharmaceutical products.

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Contact person:Dr. S. Griebel

Subject:
Compliant, fluid mechanical actuator and the procedure for insertion as adaptive cochlear implant electrode carrier
System:
Monolithic, fluid mechanical actuator with distributed compliance for a continuous changing of its curvature
Application:
• In medical technology, for a gentle implantation of electrode carriers in the human inner ear (lower insertion forces on the anatomical structures)
• As a active movable endoskope tip / section of an endoskope

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Contact person:
Dr. S. Griebel

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more videos:
external video link (YouTube) to the detailed video
external video link (YouTube) to the shortened video

Subject:
Compliant, fluid mechanical actuator and the procedure for insertion as adaptive cochlear implant electrode carrier
System:
Monolithic, fluid mechanical actuator with distributed compliance for a continuous changing of its curvature
Application:
• In medical technology, for a gentle implantation of electrode carriers in the human inner ear (lower insertion forces on the anatomical structures)
• As a active movable endoskope tip / section of an endoskope

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Contact person:
Dr. S. Griebel

Subject:
CoMUI – Compliant Mechanism User Interface
Software:
Design tool for the analysis and synthesis of freely designable compliant mechanisms including a branching point
Application:
• design and modeling of compliant mechanisms
• analysis of the deformation behavior
• analysis of force-displacement dependencies
• optimization of geometry based on parametric studies

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Contact person:
S. Henning, M. Sc.

Subject:
LeViTho – Calculation Tool for Eigenfrequencies (basic)
Software:
Calculation Tool for the analytical calculation of the eigenfrequencies of planar compliant mechanisms
Application:
• modeling of concentrated and distributed compliance
• for planar mechanisms with rectangular cross-sections
• visual representation of the mechanism
• export of the mechanism parameters possible

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Contact person:
V. Platl, M. Sc.

Subject:
CaTEf Calculation Tool for Eigenfrequencies
Software:
Calculation Tool for the analytical calculation of the eigenfrequencies of spatial compliant mechanisms
Application:
• modeling of concentrated and distributed compliance
• modeling of flexure hinges with semi-circular contour
• spatial mechanisms with circular and rectangular cross-section
• export and import of the mechanism parameters possible

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Contact person:
V. Platl, M. Sc.

Subject:
CoMSys - Compliant Mechanism Synthesis
Software:
Design tool for the analysis and synthesis of freely designable planar compliant mechanisms
Application:
• Design and modeling of compliant mechanisms
• Analysis of deformation behavior
• Analysis of force-displacement dependencies
• Optimization of the hinge position along a given rod axis

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Contact person:
H. Jahn, M. Sc.