Adjustable inflatable structures using silver-coated twisted coil polymer fibers
AssigneesToyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuyang Song, Shinnosuke Shimokawa
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Abstract
Systems and methods described herein relate to using silver-coated twisted-coil polymer fibers to adjust the shape of inflatable structures, such as to provide an adjustable curved projection screen. In one embodiment, a method includes providing an adjustable inflation system capable of providing an electrical stimulus to a set of fibers within an inflatable structure where the set of fibers can adjust a surface of the inflatable structure from a first state to a second state based on the electrical stimulus.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- an inflatable structure having a set of fibers that can adjust a surface of the inflatable structure from a first state to a second state based on an electrical stimulus applied to the set of fibers;
- a processor;
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- a memory communicably coupled to the processor and storing machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- provide the electrical stimulus to the set of fibers.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:
- provide an electrical stimulus to a set of fibers within an inflatable structure where the set of fibers can adjust a surface of the inflatable structure from a first state to a second state based on the electrical stimulus.
A method, comprising:
- providing an electrical stimulus to a set of fibers within an inflatable structure where the set of fibers can adjust a surface of the inflatable structure from a first state to a second state based on the electrical stimulus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.