Method for providing a self-assembled extended field of view receiver for a lidar system
AssigneeMouro Labs, S.L.
InventorEduardo Margallo Balbás
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Abstract
The method comprises fabricating a plurality of sub-units on a planar substrate, where each sub-unit comprises an optical sensing structure configured to receive at least a portion of an optical wavefront that impinges on one or more of the sub-units, and material forming at least a portion of a hinge in a vicinity of a border with at least one adjacent sub-unit; removing at least a portion of the substrate on respective borders between each of at least three different pairs of sub-units to enable relative movement between the sub-units in each pair constrained by one of the hinges formed from the material; and providing one or more actuators configured to apply a force to fold a connected network of multiple sub-units into a non-planar formation.
Claims17
A method for providing a self-assembled extended field of view receiver for a LIDAR system, the method comprising:
- fabricating a plurality of sub-units on a planar substrate, where each sub-unit comprises:
- an optical sensing structure configured to receive at least a portion of an optical wavefront that impinges on one or more of the sub-units, and
- material forming at least a portion of a hinge in a vicinity of a border with at least one adjacent sub-unit;
- removing at least a portion of the substrate on respective borders between each of at least three different pairs of sub-units to enable relative movement between the sub-units in each pair constrained by one of the hinges formed from the material;
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- providing one or more actuators configured to apply a force to fold a connected network of multiple sub-units into a non-planar formation.
A device comprising:
- a plurality of sub-units fabricated on a planar substrate, where each sub-unit comprises:
- an optical sensing structure configured to receive at least a portion of an optical wavefront that impinges on one or more of the sub-units, and
- material forming at least a portion of a hinge in a vicinity of a border with at least one adjacent sub-unit;
- at least one gap along respective borders between each of at least three different pairs of sub-units to enable relative movement between the sub-units in each pair constrained by one of the hinges formed from the material;
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- one or more actuators configured to apply a force to fold a connected network of multiple sub-units into a non-planar formation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.