US Patent Issued to Joby Aero on Aug. 4 for "Compact offset outrunner harmonic drive rotary actuator and deployment system using same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,784, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Joby Aero Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Compact offset outrunner harmonic drive rotary actuator and deployment system using same" was invented by Jordin Gischler (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Baixi Pei (Newark, Calif.), Rob Thodal (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and JoeBen Bevirt (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact harmonic drive system with a motor residing within the flexspline cup. The motor may reside further into the flexspline cup than the wave generator, and the air gap of the motor may be further out radially than the interior of the wave generator bearing. The motor may use an outrun...