GB2594663B - Shape memory alloy actuator - Google Patents

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GB2594663B
GB2594663B GB2110817.0A GB202110817A GB2594663B GB 2594663 B GB2594663 B GB 2594663B GB 202110817 A GB202110817 A GB 202110817A GB 2594663 B GB2594663 B GB 2594663B
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Benjamin Simpson Brown Andrew
Carr Joshua
Scholz Marc-Sebastian
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F03MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; WIND, SPRING, OR WEIGHT MOTORS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F03GSPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS; MECHANICAL-POWER PRODUCING DEVICES OR MECHANISMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR OR USING ENERGY SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F03G7/00Mechanical-power-producing mechanisms, not otherwise provided for or using energy sources not otherwise provided for
    • F03G7/06Mechanical-power-producing mechanisms, not otherwise provided for or using energy sources not otherwise provided for using expansion or contraction of bodies due to heating, cooling, moistening, drying or the like
    • F03G7/065Mechanical-power-producing mechanisms, not otherwise provided for or using energy sources not otherwise provided for using expansion or contraction of bodies due to heating, cooling, moistening, drying or the like using a shape memory element
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JPS61297091A (en) * 1985-06-26 1986-12-27 沖電気工業株式会社 Actuator made of shape memory alloy
JP2009047179A (en) * 2008-12-04 2009-03-05 Panasonic Electric Works Co Ltd Shape memory alloy actuator
DE102012002119B3 (en) * 2012-02-03 2013-07-18 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. Actuator i.e. solid body actuator, for use in medical application to generate control path for dosage of medicament, has shape memory alloy elements arranged between and connected to segments and oppositely bent from each other
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