Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Compact SMA actuator
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Application No.: US17946301Application Date: 2022-09-16
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Publication No.: US11781534B2Publication Date: 2023-10-10
- Inventor: James Howarth , Andrew Benjamin Simpson Brown , Robin Eddington
- Applicant: CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS LIMITED
- Applicant Address: GB Cambridge
- Assignee: CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS LIMITED
- Current Assignee: CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridgeshire
- Agency: Haley Guiliano LLP
- Priority: GB 07542 2017.05.11
- Main IPC: F03G7/06
- IPC: F03G7/06 ; G02B27/64 ; G03B3/10 ; G03B5/00

Abstract:
Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present techniques provide an actuator that comprises segments of shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator wire that can be used to deliver a relatively large output stroke. In particular, two segments of SMA actuator wire may be mechanically coupled together around a corner of a static component of the actuator such that a displacement (e.g. contraction) of one segment causes a displacement (e.g. contraction) of the other segment. In this way, the displacement of each segment combines in an additive manner to generate a large output stroke that is able to move a moveable component of the actuator.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230014977A1 COMPACT SMA ACTUATOR Public/Granted day:2023-01-19
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