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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 13, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Haruo Kunieda, Otsu, JP;
Yoshihiro Kono, Hirakata, JP;
Assignee:
Taiyo Kogyo Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E04B 1/32 ; E04B 7/08 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E04B 1/32 ; E04B 7/08 ;
Abstract
A framed structure includes a plurality of base units each formed of three elongate compression members disposed so as to cross one another. Tension members are arranged to be interconnected with respective compression members forming a triangular planar units. The triangular planar units being arranged to form a self-supporting structure or base unit. A plurality of base units being interconnected in a continuous fashion such that one of the compression members in one of the base units serves as one of the compression members in an adjacent base unit.