Fluidic actuator manufacturing method
OwnerJames Chau, Linus Park +1inventors
InventorsJames Chau, Linus Park, Timothy Alan Swift
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Abstract
A method of constructing an inflatable fluidic actuator. The method includes coupling a first interface to a tube configuration of membrane material at a first tube end by coupling the first interface to the tube configuration at the first tube end by generating at least one of: a first bond between the membrane material and one or more first sidewalls of the first interface and a first external face bond between membrane material at the first tube end onto a first external face of the first interface.
Claims20
A method of constructing an inflatable fluidic actuator, the method comprising:
- generating a tube configuration with one or more shapes of membrane material, the tube configuration having a first tube end and a second tube end and an internal tube face and external tube face;
- coupling a first interface to the tube configuration at the first tube end by:
- coupling the first interface to the tube configuration at the first tube end by generating at least one of:
- a first bond between the membrane material and one or more first sidewalls of the first interface;
- and,
- a first external face bond between membrane material at the first tube end onto a first external face of the first interface;
- and
- coupling a second interface to the tube configuration at the second tube end by:
- coupling the second interface to the tube configuration at the second tube end by generating at least one of:
- a second bond between the membrane material and one or more second sidewalls of the second interface, and
- a second external face bond between membrane material at the second tube end onto a second external face of the second interface.
A method of constructing an inflatable fluidic actuator, the method comprising:
- coupling a first interface to a tube configuration of membrane material at a first tube end by:
- coupling the first interface to the tube configuration at the first tube end by generating at least one of:
- a first bond between the membrane material and one or more first sidewalls of the first interface;
- and,
- a first external face bond between membrane material at the first tube end onto a first external face of the first interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.