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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2018
Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, JP;
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (US);
Tomohiro Tachi, Tokyo, JP;
Yasushi Yamaguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Evgueni T. Filipov, Urbana, IL (US);
Glaucio H. Paulino, Atlanta, GA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (US);
Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, JP;
Abstract
To provide a foldable structure to which stiffness is imparted so that non-uniform extension and contraction is inhibited even when each surface is formed of a flexible material, a manufacturing method and a manufacturing device of the foldable structure, and a non-transitory computer-readable computer medium storing a program. A foldable structure including at least two tubular structures in which the two tubular structures include a shared surface array which is continuous shared surfaces shared by each other, and a twisting characteristic in the shared surface array of one tubular structure is in a direction opposite to that of the twisting characteristic in the shared surface array of the other tubular structure.