Nicholas,
The design seems sufficiently novel, but it has almost nothing to do with the Tripteron/Quadrupteron/Pentapreton family, and is therefore not even protected by the Tripteron patent (if I remember correctly). There are a lot of 6-PUS (prismatic-universal-spherical joint) parallel robots, so you have only replaced the U joints with a pair of R joints that have parallel axes. That said, your design is possibly great. For example, the robot has no link interferences, which is rare. This is something very positive!!!
Hmm, I need to think more about it.
Of course you don't need 6-DOF to do printing, but it's often cheaper to have six identical legs than five different ones. Otherwise, you can use a pentapod like this: [www.metrom.com].
Anyway, you deserve an honorary Master's degree. That's certain!
Keep on!
Ilian
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The design seems sufficiently novel, but it has almost nothing to do with the Tripteron/Quadrupteron/Pentapreton family, and is therefore not even protected by the Tripteron patent (if I remember correctly). There are a lot of 6-PUS (prismatic-universal-spherical joint) parallel robots, so you have only replaced the U joints with a pair of R joints that have parallel axes. That said, your design is possibly great. For example, the robot has no link interferences, which is rare. This is something very positive!!!
Hmm, I need to think more about it.
Of course you don't need 6-DOF to do printing, but it's often cheaper to have six identical legs than five different ones. Otherwise, you can use a pentapod like this: [www.metrom.com].
Anyway, you deserve an honorary Master's degree. That's certain!
Keep on!
Ilian
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