creator Nesch, Ivan N. creator Morrison, Timothy I. An apparatus and method for precise angular positioning of an object. A first pivot arm and a second pivot arm each is pivotally mounted with respect to a base. A pivot base flex member is operatively connected to the first pivot arm and allows the first pivot arm to pivot with respect to the base, within a particular plane. A second pivot base flex member is operatively connected to the second pivot arm and allows the second pivot arm to pivot with respect to the base, and also within either the same plane or a different plane as the plane within which the first pivot arm pivots. Support structures maintain each of the first pivot arm and the second pivot arm within the particular plane or planes. An interconnect flex member connects the first pivot arm and the second pivot arm. With a relatively small base and thus overall apparatus, an input movement, such as a linear input of about 10 mm can be translated into an output movement of about 7200 radians. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2012-03-20T14:42:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 7107693.pdf: 103964 bytes, checksum: 00eb04c04810558f8c0d8fcbb8601ead (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-03-20T14:42:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7107693.pdf: 103964 bytes, checksum: 00eb04c04810558f8c0d8fcbb8601ead (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-09-19 Illinois Institute of Technology 2009-05-19 2006-09-19 7,107,693 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2651 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access