Patent 7800852 was granted and assigned to Corning Incorporated on September, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A positioning apparatus for providing relative movement between a first member and a second member has a lever element pivotably coupled to the first member along a fulcrum member and has an actuator arm and a positioner arm. First and second flexure elements extend between the positioner arm of the lever element and the second member. An actuator is coupled to the actuator arm of the lever element.