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US 10,882,643 B2Granted
Capturing plate, on-orbit device and method for capturing
AssigneeAstroscale Japan Inc.
InventorMitsunobu Okada
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Abstract
A capturing plate is attached to an on-orbit device, and the capturing plate is attached to a part of the on-orbit device where a capturing device bonds to the on-orbit device in space with a bonding component, including adhesive, of the capturing device. A method for capturing the on-orbit device includes moving the capturing device including the bonding component to the on-orbit device and letting the bonding component of the capturing device adhere to the on-orbit device.
Claims9
A capturing plate, the capturing plate comprising:
- a base;
- a surface treated layer disposed on a front side of the base;
- and
- a magnetic layer disposed on a back side of the base,
- wherein the capturing plate is included on an on-orbit device, the on-orbit device being configured to be captured by a capturing device, and
- wherein the magnetic layer is configured to serve as a guide structure that defines a bonding position of the on-orbit device with the capturing device by a magnetic force and the surface treated layer is configured to permanently bond the on-orbit device to a bonding component including adhesive in the capturing device by an adhesive force of the adhesive, and
- wherein the surface treated layer is a metal-oxide coating layer formed by anodic oxidation of aluminum of the base and includes a plurality of holes each having a diameter in a range from 100 nm to 150 nm to facilitate permeation of the adhesive into the plurality of holes.
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A capture system, the capture system comprising:
- a capturing plate included on an on-orbit device;
- and
- a capture device configured to capture the on-orbit device and including a bonding component, the bonding component including adhesive,
- wherein the capturing plate includes:
- a base;
- a surface treated layer disposed on a front side of the base;
- and
- a magnetic layer disposed on a back side of the base,
- wherein the magnetic layer is configured to serve as a guide structure that defines a bonding position of the on-orbit device with the capturing device by a magnetic force and the surface treated layer is configured to permanently bond the on-orbit device to the bonding component of the capturing device by an adhesive force of the adhesive.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.