US Patent Issued to Sentek Dynamics on Aug. 19 for "Safety apparatus for one degree of freedom electrodynamic shaker" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,683, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Sentek Dynamics Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Safety apparatus for one degree of freedom electrodynamic shaker" was invented by James Q. Zhuge (Palo Alto, Calif.), Michael Nichols (Charlotte, N.C.) and Weijie Zhao (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensors outside of a control loop are used in a single axis electrodynamic shaker where an armature exerts variable amounts of vibration with a single degree of freedom on a test unit affixed to a support table. The sensors are remote from the test unit, such as laser sensors measuring movement of the test unit. Typically an array of su...