Flexible panel
AssigneePolitecnico Di Milano
InventorsAlessandra Zanelli, Salvatore Viscuso
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Abstract
A flexible panel includes: a plurality of first blades made of semi-rigid material, of rectangular shape, having a pair of long sides and a pair of short sides; a pair of textile membranes which connect each pair of said first blades along said long sides; each of the plurality of first blades include at least one second blade, of quadrilateral shape, connected in a folding manner to one of the short sides, along a line of contact between one of the plurality of first blades and the at least one second blade; when the panel opens it creates vertical tubular hollow areas laterally delimited by the plurality of first blades and by the one pair of textile membranes which joins them.
Claims10
A flexible panel comprising:
- a pair of flexible textile membranes comprising a first flexible textile membrane and a second flexible textile membrane;
- a plurality of first blades made of semi-rigid material, of rectangular shape, having a pair of long sides and a pair of short sides, each pair of long sides comprising a first long side and an opposing second long side, the first long side of each of the plurality of first blades being connected to the first flexible textile membrane at spaced apart locations and the second long side of each of the plurality of first blades being connected to the second flexible textile membrane at spaced apart locations;
- each first blade of said plurality of first blades comprising a pair of second blades, of quadrilateral shape, each second blade of the pair of second blades being connected to and folding with respect to a corresponding one of the pair of opposing short sides along a line of contact;
- wherein a vertical tubular hollow area is laterally delimited by each adjacent pair of said plurality of first blades and by said pair of said flexible textile membranes.
A method for producing a flexible panel comprising:
- joining a first flexible textile membrane to a first long lateral edge of each of a plurality of first rectangular semi-rigid blades;
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- joining a second flexible textile membrane to a second long lateral edge of each of the plurality of first rectangular semi-rigid blades;
- a short side of each of said plurality of first rectangular semi-rigid blades being connected to a respective second blade, the second blades being foldable along a line of contact between said short side of the plurality of first blades and said respective second blade, so as to create vertical tubular hollow areas delimited laterally by adjacent pairs of said plurality of first blades and by said first and second flexible textile membranes which joins them.
A flexible panel comprising:
- a plurality of first blades made of semi-rigid material and being laterally spaced apart, each of the plurality of first blades having a rectangular shape with a first long side and an opposing second long side that longitudinally extend between a pair of opposing short sides;
- a pair of flexible textile membranes comprising a first flexible textile membrane and a second flexible textile membrane, the first flexible textile membrane extending between and being connected to the first long side of each of the plurality of first blades, the second flexible textile membrane extending between and being connected to the second long side of each of the plurality of first blades, the pair of flexible textile membranes being connected to the plurality of first blades such that for each adjacent pair of the plurality of first blades, a vertical tubular hollow area is laterally delimited by the adjacent pair of the first blades and the pair of flexible textile membranes;
- each first blade of the plurality of first blades comprising a pair of second blades, of quadrilateral shape, each second blade of the pair of second blades being foldably connected to a corresponding one of the pair of opposing short sides along a line of contact.
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