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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2022
Applicant:
Brigham Young University (Byu), Provo, UT (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16F 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16F 1/027 (2013.01);
Abstract
A lamina emergent torsional (LET) joint that includes an integrated membrane to reduce, or eliminate, certain unwanted motions and/or displacements associated with the operation of the LET joint is disclosed. The membrane-integrated LET joint (i.e., M-LET) can be used as a hinge for a lamina emergent mechanism and/or as a surrogate fold for an origami application to ensure accurate and repeatable transitions from a planar (i.e., lamina) state to a non-planar (i.e., lamina-emergent) state, and vice versa.