US 12,070,854 B2
Repositionable robot riser
Jordan Cedarleaf-Pavy, Mountain View, CA (US); Austen Poteet, San Francisco, CA (US); Timothy Ryan, San Francisco, CA (US); Adam Kell, Millbrae, CA (US); Robert Holmberg, Mountain View, CA (US); Salvador Perez, Jersey City, NJ (US); and Devon Weinberger, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to Dexterity, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US)
Filed by Dexterity, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/716,396.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/175,794, filed on Apr. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0331946 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. B25J 5/02 (2006.01); B25J 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC B25J 5/02 (2013.01) [B25J 9/0009 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A repositionable riser, comprising:
a riser having one or more mounting locations at or near an upper end of the riser configured to fixedly mount an equipment on the riser;
a lateral translation subsystem comprising a carriage on which the riser is mounted and a set of one or more elongated structures that define a constrained lateral path along which the carriage is movable, the path including a first end associated with active use of the equipment and a second end not associated with active use of the equipment; and
an anchor structure to which one or both of the carriage and the riser are configured to be coupled to secure the riser at the first end, the anchor structure comprising:
one or more anchor blocks comprising one or more coupling holes via which one or both of the carriage and the riser is coupled with a fastener; and
one or more bearing springs that are configured to apply a biasing force against the riser in a direction perpendicular to the constrained lateral path along which the carriage is movable;
wherein:
the one or more bearing springs lift the riser off the one or more anchor blocks in response to removal of the fastener from the one or more holes in the anchor block.