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US 12,760,512 B2Granted
Systems and methods for manufacturing and deploying modular buildings
AssigneeRohe Homes Ltd.
InventorsRohan Kulkarni, Ankush Abbi, Hyun Kyo Joo
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Abstract
A foldable modular building having a fixed portion and at least one foldable portion where the foldable portions are hingedly connected. Methods of assembling, folding and deploying the foldable modular building utilizing hinges, cables and winches.
Claims18
A foldable modular building comprising:
- a fixed portion comprising:
- a central floor panel;
- a central roof panel above the central floor panel;
- a pair of central sidewalls, each one of the pair of central sidewalls being disposed at opposite ends of the central floor panel, the pair of central sidewalls interposing the central floor panel and the central roof panel;
- the central floor panel, the central roof panel, and the pair of central sidewalls together providing the fixed portion of the foldable modular building;
- at least one foldable portion comprising:
- a lateral floor panel hingedly connected to an outside lateral edge of the central floor panel;
- a lateral roof panel hingedly connected to an outside lateral edge of the central roof panel;
- a pair of outside wall panels, each one of the pair of outside wall panels being hingedly connected to an outside lateral edge of a corresponding one of the pair of central sidewalls;
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- an outer lateral sidewall, the outer lateral sidewall being hingedly connected to an outside lateral edge of the lateral floor panel;
- and
- a lateral support beam, the lateral support beam being dimensioned to contact an outside lateral edge of the lateral floor panel and a bottom edge of the outer lateral sidewall to interpose the outer lateral sidewall and a foundation, wherein the lateral support beam is positioned under the lateral floor panel and vertically supports the lateral floor panel when the foldable modular building is in a folded configuration.
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A method of deploying a foldable modular building, the method comprising the steps of:
- rotating a unit comprising an outer lateral sidewall and a lateral floor panel outwardly and downwardly away from a fixed portion of the foldable modular building until the unit extends parallel to a central floor panel of the fixed portion with the lateral floor panel extending in the same plane as the central floor panel and the outer lateral sidewall stacked above the lateral floor panel;
- positioning a lateral support beam adjacent an outer lateral edge of the lateral floor panel, wherein the lateral support beam is positioned under the lateral floor panel and vertically supports the lateral floor panel when the foldable modular building is in a folded configuration prior to said rotating;
- rotating the outer lateral sidewall upwardly and outwardly relative to the lateral floor panel until the outer lateral sidewall extends perpendicularly upwardly from the lateral floor panel, with the lateral support beam interposing the outer lateral sidewall and a foundation on which the foldable modular building is deployed;
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- rotating outside wall panels horizontally and outwardly away from the fixed portion until the outside wall panels extend parallel to and in the same plane as central sidewalls of the fixed portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.