Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Deployable KiriForm flexures
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Application No.: US16630922Application Date: 2018-07-18
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Publication No.: US11697585B2Publication Date: 2023-07-11
- Inventor: Saurabh Avinash Mhatre , Martin Bechthold , Allen Sayegh
- Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Applicant Address: US MA Cambridge
- Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Current Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Cambridge
- Agency: Modern Times Legal
- Agent Robert J. Sayre
- International Application: PCT/US2018/042719 2018.07.18
- International Announcement: WO2019/018546A 2019.01.24
- Date entered country: 2020-01-14
- Main IPC: B81B3/00
- IPC: B81B3/00 ; B25J15/00 ; B29C53/36 ; B29C53/80

Abstract:
A deployable Kiriform flexure includes first and second sections. The first section of the Kiriform flexure includes a plurality of curved fins arranged about a central axis. The second section of the Kiriform flexure includes a plurality of curved fins arranged about a central axis. Each fin of the second section is joined with a fin of the first section such that the first and second sections share a common central axis in a configuration that produces out-of-plane elastic buckling of the fins to actuate the Kiriform flexure from a substantially flat structure that extends substantially only in two dimensions orthogonal to the central axis to an expanded structure extending substantially in a third dimension parallel to the central axis when at least one of the first and second sections is rotated relative to the other section.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200231430A1 Deployable KiriForm Flexures Public/Granted day:2020-07-23
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