Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems for mechanical logic based on additively manufacturable micro-mechanical logic gates
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Application No.: US16178690Application Date: 2018-11-02
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Publication No.: US10678293B2Publication Date: 2020-06-09
- Inventor: Andrew Pascall , Julie Mancini , Robert Matthew Panas , Yuanping Song , Jonathan Hopkins
- Applicant: Andrew Pascall , Julie Mancini , Robert Matthew Panas , Yuanping Song , Jonathan Hopkins
- Applicant Address: US CA Livermore US CA Oakland
- Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC,The Regents of the University of California
- Current Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC,The Regents of the University of California
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Livermore US CA Oakland
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, PLC
- Main IPC: G06C21/04
- IPC: G06C21/04 ; H03K19/20 ; H03K19/02

Abstract:
The present disclosure is directed to various mechanical logic gates. In one example a mechanical logic NOT gate system is formed which has a first pair of bi-stable buckling structures each being operatively connected at a first connection point thereof to one another, and also to a first rigid structure at second connection points, the first rigid structure being held stationary. A second pair of bi-stable buckling flexures is each operatively connected at first connection points thereof to each other and at second connection points thereof to a second rigid structure being held stationary. An output element is coupled a first one of each of the first and second pairs of bi-stable buckling structures. An input element is coupled to a second one of each of the first and second pairs of bi-stable buckling structures. The output element moves from a logic 1 position to a logic 0 position in response to movement of the input element from a logic 0 position to a logic 1 positions, respectively.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200142440A1 SYSTEMS FOR MECHANICAL LOGIC BASED ON ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURABLE MICRO-MECHANICAL LOGIC GATES Public/Granted day:2020-05-07
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