Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Table tennis robot with improved serving head movement
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Application No.: US15123598Application Date: 2015-02-09
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Publication No.: US10252142B2Publication Date: 2019-04-09
- Inventor: Lawrence Michael Thoman , Burak Cevik
- Applicant: Newgy Industries, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TN Hendersonville
- Assignee: NEWGY INDUSTRIES, INC.
- Current Assignee: NEWGY INDUSTRIES, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US TN Hendersonville
- Agency: Sandberg Phoenix & Von Gontard PC
- International Application: PCT/US2015/014966 WO 20150209
- International Announcement: WO2015/134151 WO 20150911
- Main IPC: A63B47/02
- IPC: A63B47/02 ; A63B69/40 ; A63B71/06 ; A63B102/16

Abstract:
A robot server assembly for serving table tennis balls comprising a body defining an internal ball path, means for introducing balls into the internal ball path at the lower end of the body; a ball guide at the upper end of the back panel, a serving head assembly at the upper end of the body having a ball discharge tube in communication with the ball guide; a pair of opposed discharge wheel operatively associated with the discharge tube; a plurality of gears associated with the serving head; at least one servo motor associated with at least one of the gears to actuate rotation of the gear; whereby actuation of a least one of said gears affects 180° rotation of the serving head about a longitudinal axis of the serving head, up and down movement of the serving head and side to side movement of the serving head.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170072284A1 TABLE TENNIS ROBOT WITH IMPROVED SERVING HEAD MOVEMENT Public/Granted day:2017-03-16
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