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Apparatus for supporting an imaging device

  • US 4,728,974 A
  • Filed: 05/30/1986
  • Issued: 03/01/1988
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/31/1985
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An apparatus for supporting in which a camera supporting device having a camera therein and a fiber scope are attached to and supported the wrist of a robot having a swing axis and a twist axis, comprising:

  • a tube having high rigidity into which said fiber scope is inserted and which connects said camera supporting device with said robot wrist;

    first identical moving means for allowing the camera supporting device to perform the same motion as said swing axis in the direction of the swing axis around the rotational center of the swing axis as the rotational center; and

    second identical moving means for allowing the camera supporting device to perform the same motion as said twist axis such that the rotational center of the camera supporing device is located on the rotational center of the twist axis.

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