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US 2022/0042298 A1Published application
Gigacubes block system
OwnerJonathan Hendrik Van Eeinventor
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Abstract
The Invention is a series of blocks and block areas with interfaces and dimensions that enable them to be assembled into a wide range of useful 3D objects. The blocks, poles, spheres, and their interfaces can build a wide range of useful constructions in the manner similar to how an alphabet describes a wealth of human experience. With knobs, screws, hooks, snaps, magnetic interfaces and combinations of these interfaces, the pieces of the Invention pull themselves together with the strength needed in a particular circumstance. They can also be easily disassembled to form new constructions as needed. The blocks, and their interfaces, are modular and they can in turn build modular objects and constructions, like modular homes.
Claims3
A building system comprising
- interchangeable flexible (rubber, flexible plastics like vinyl, hollow or thin objects with flexible metals) and rigid materials (cement, ceramics, glass, steel, cast iron) building objects, objects that assemble and disassemble through a series of standard interfaces that include sticks, nails, knobs, hooks, gears, snaps, screws, latches, magnets, kawai tsugite, bearings and hinges;
- where the objects, in addition to assembling further to those standard interfaces, are also locked and reinforced with poles or spheres;
- objects that have standard dimensions relative to each other in which the above interfaces and the poles and spheres are half the size of the objects themselves and in which objects are either of the same size as other objects, or half the size, or twice the size, four times the size and so on;
- objects that can be transported in spheres and other containers through constructions of the building system made up of the building objects themselves so that constructions can be built like an organism that grows without the need for external scaffolding and other external supports;
- simplified manufacturing, storage, transportation and assembly brought about because many pieces fit into themselves (they are reversible) and into other pieces in the building system;
- assemblies of cubes that can interface with existing building methods because beams, poles, nails, screws, wires, cables, ropes can interface with them seamlessly;
- cubes and assemblies of cubes that are toys, puzzles and games because they can be assembled into playful structures, structures that are made up of cubes that are puzzle pieces, and they can be game pieces or be built into game pieces that empower players to move, or place, pieces in three dimensions on game boards.
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A block system comprising
- modular objects that assemble and disassemble with simple rotational movements or insertion of the objects relative to each other and relative to other objects that are not part of the block system;
- where the objects are tools for assembling and disassembling the objects themselves;
- with the strength of a 12-year-old girl assemble into, and disassemble from, structures useful for human habitation, commercial properties, government properties, educational properties, research institution structures and exploratory mission structures, comprising houses, chairs, tables, walkways, bookshelves, desks, drawers, doors, fences, walls, floating pontoons, boats, rafts, sticks, poles, panels, windows and window shutters;
- to enable construction, refurbishment, reconstruction, remodel, changes to and extensions to, those properties in urban or rural areas, in remote isolated areas, on other planets like Mars;
- without the need to get lumber, tools, materials, or other matter from a hardware store that is ordinarily necessary for building, re-building, refurbishing, remodeling, altering, converting or otherwise changing, maintaining or upgrading those properties, objects and structures.
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A set of shapes comprising:
- basic mathematically defined shapes that include spheres, cubes, poles and beams;
- that represent hard objects, soft objects, flexible objects, magnetic objects and virtual objects with mathematically defined strengths, tolerances, variances, endurance and breaking points under mechanical, thermal, chemical and ultraviolet stresses;
- that interface with each other in mathematically defined shapes and interfaces that include sticks, nails, knobs, hooks, gears, snaps, screws, latches, magnets, kawai tsugite, bearings and hinges;
- where the shapes bear standard mathematical relationships towards each other and, in addition to assembling further to those standard interfaces, are locked and reinforced with poles or sphere shapes with specific standard mathematically defined dimensions;
- that break down the reality comprised of structures useful for human habitation, commercial properties, government properties, educational properties, research institution structures and exploratory mission structures, comprising houses, chairs, tables, walkways, bookshelves, desks, drawers, doors, fences, walls, floating pontoons, boats, rafts, sticks, poles, panels, windows and window shutters into pieces of mathematical puzzles;
- whose optimal solutions can be calculated to enable construction, refurbishment, reconstruction, remodel, changes to and extensions to, those properties by adult humans, children, robots, or a combination thereof;
- in all environments that humans currently live in or are capable of living in or of having useful structures in, like urban or rural areas, in remote isolated areas, in orbits or on intergalactic trajectories, on other planets like Mars;
- so that flexible and updatable solutions to the most efficient, or speedy, or sustainable, or cost-effective way to build structures can be calculated, built, updated, changed and edited without the need to get lumber, tools, materials, non-renewable plastics, metals or other matter that fills landfills, or other matter from a hardware store that is ordinarily necessary for building, re-building, refurbishing, remodeling, altering, converting or otherwise changing, maintaining or upgrading those properties, objects, structures or shapes in three dimensions that empower builders to build structures with the same ease that alphabets spell the words in books.
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