Deployable electromagnetic waveguides
AssigneeThe Penn State Research Foundation
InventorsSven Gunnar Bilen, Xin Ning, Nikhil Ashok
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Abstract
Embodiments relate to a deployable and/or reconfigurable waveguide and waveguide-based components that can be configured to various states of length along a longitudinal axis such that the waveguide is an expandable structure. The waveguide can be expanded or unfolded to an expanded (or deployed) state, and the waveguide can be compressed or folded to a compressed state. The deployable waveguide comprises a hollow tube extending in a longitudinal direction. The hollow tube may be folded according to various different origami-inspired folding patterns.
Claims20
A deployable waveguide, comprising:
- a hollow tube extending in a longitudinal direction and comprising a first side wall, a second side wall, a top wall, and a bottom wall,
- wherein the hollow tube is folded according to an origami-inspired folding pattern,
- wherein the hollow tube is folded according to the folding pattern such that:
- the first side wall has a plurality of first cross-sectional creases,
- the second side wall has a plurality of second cross-sectional creases opposite of the first cross-sectional creases of the first side wall,
- the top wall has a first longitudinal crease, and
- the bottom wall has a second longitudinal crease opposite of the first longitudinal crease of the top wall.
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