US 11,988,249 B2
Joint
Reinhard Hübner, Waldbronn (DE)
Assigned to PHYSIK INSTRUMENTE (PI) GMBH & CO. KG, Karlsruhe (DE)
Appl. No. 17/040,435
Filed by PHYSIK INSTRUMENTE (PI) GMBH & CO. KG, Karlsruhe (DE)
PCT Filed Mar. 20, 2019, PCT No. PCT/DE2019/100263
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 22, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/179579, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 26, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 102018107015.2 (DE), filed on Mar. 23, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0018039 A1, Jan. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. F16C 11/12 (2006.01)
CPC F16C 11/12 (2013.01) [F16C 2240/30 (2013.01); F16C 2300/02 (2013.01); Y10T 403/45 (2015.01); Y10T 403/54 (2015.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A joint having at least three degrees of freedom of rotation, the joint comprising:
a rigid carrier element and at least a first and a second elastically deformable joint device extending from different sides of the rigid carrier element;
each of the first and the second elastically deformable joint devices comprises at least two joint elements;
wherein the at least two joint elements of each of the first and the second elastically deformable joint devices each include a fastening section and a first elongated web section having a first terminal end and a second terminal end and a second elongated web section having a first terminal end and a second terminal end, the fastening section configured for fastening the joint to a higher-level unit;
wherein the first terminal ends of the first and the second elongated web sections of the first and second joint elements of the first elastically deformable joint device is affixed to a first side of the rigid carrier and the first terminal ends of the first and the second elongated web sections of the first and second joint elements of the second elastically deformable joint device is affixed to a second side of the rigid carrier;
wherein the first and second joint elements of each of the first and second elastically deformable joint devices crisscrosses each other within each of the joint devices;
wherein the first elongated web section and the second elongated web section cross each other within each of the joint elements;
wherein the first terminal ends of the first joint element of the first elastically deformable joint device is affixed to a first surface section of the first side of the rigid carrier and the first terminal ends of the second joint element of the first elastically deformable joint device is affixed to a second surface section of the first side of the rigid carrier; and
wherein the first terminal ends of the first joint element of the second elastically deformable joint device is affixed to a first surface section of the second side of the rigid carrier and the first terminal ends of the second joint element of the second elastically deformable joint device is affixed to a second surface section of the second side of the rigid carrier.