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US 12,472,080 B2Granted
Scalable microfluidic double-helix weave architecture for 3D-printable biomimetic artificial muscles
AssigneeThe Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorEmil Paskalev Kartalov
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Abstract
A double-helix weave architecture for an artificial muscle is described. The artificial muscle includes a number of microfluidic channels that are arranged into artificial muscles fibers, where each artificial muscle fiber includes two independent mutually-unconnected microfluidic channels that are entwined in a double helix weave and maintained at opposite electrical polarity.
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An artificial muscle comprising:
- an artificial muscle fiber comprising a first plurality of microfluidic channels of a first polarity and a second plurality of microfluidic channels of a second polarity, the first plurality of microfluidic channels and the second plurality of microfluidic channels are entwined in a double helix weave;
- wherein the first polarity and the second polarity are electrically opposite charges;
- a parallel array of artificial muscle fibers that comprises the artificial muscle fiber, the parallel array having the first plurality of microfluidic channels of each of the artificial muscle fibers are fluidically connected and the second plurality of microfluidic channels of each of the N artificial muscle fibers are fluidically connected;
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- wherein the parallel array is a power of base 2 so that only a first polarity input and a second polarity input of the artificial muscle fiber and a first polarity output and a second polarity output of the artificial muscle fiber are included in the parallel array.
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