MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641050866 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on April 21, for 'a mechanism to control movement of fingers in prosthetic hand.'
Inventor(s) include Dhruv Swarup; D. Subitha; and Kavitha J C.
The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An actuation mechanism 200 to move fingers 104 of a prosthetic hand 102 includes a shape memory alloy wire 202 having one end coupled to tip of finger 104 at distal end 104-D, and other end of the shape memory alloy wire 202 is stretchably coupled to a rotary joint 206 located at proximal end 104-P of the finger 104 near upper edge of the palm 106 such that when the shape memory alloy wires 202 configured with the five fingers 104 are progressively heated, the shape memory alloy wires 202 contracts to pull the respective fingers 104 inwardly in deployed position to perform assigned task, and when heating condition is withdrawn, the fingers 104 return to extended position biased by respective springs configured with the fingers 104."
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