Document Type
Patent
Publication Date
September 2019
Patent Number
10422124
CPC
E04B 1/34357, E04B 1/34384, E04B 9/0414, F16H 21/54
Abstract
A bistable collapsible compliant mechanism including a first sub-mechanism comprising opposed first and second quaternary links and multiple binary links, each link being connected to at least two other links in the sub-mechanism, and a second sub-mechanism connected to the first sub-mechanism, the second sub-mechanism also comprising opposed first and second quaternary links and multiple binary links, each link being connected to at least two other links in the sub-mechanism, wherein the bistable collapsible compliant mechanism can be alternatively be placed in a stable extended orientation in which the bistable collapsible compliant mechanism has a trapezoidal shape and in a stable contracted orientation in which the bistable collapsible compliant mechanism has a polygonal spiral shape.
Application Number
15/594132
Recommended Citation
Alfattani, Rami A. and Lusk, Craig, "Bistable collapsible compliant mechanisms and shape-changing structures that comprise them" (2019). USF Patents. 1026.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_patents/1026
Assignees
University of South Florida
Filing Date
05/12/2017
