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US 9,669,949 B2Granted
Tape spring deployable structure
AssigneeThales
InventorsYannick Baudasse, Stéphane Vezain, François Guinot
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Abstract
A deployable structure comprises: a support, a tape spring fixed to the support, able to pass from a wound configuration wound about an axis Z, to a deployed configuration, and a mobile arm able to rotate with respect to the support about the Z-axis, able to form a first contact with the tape spring so as to control the deployment of the tape spring.
Claims5
A deployable structure, comprising:
- a support,
- a tape spring fixed to the support, able to pass from a wound configuration wound about an axis Z, to a deployed configuration, the tape spring having two ends,
- a mobile arm able to rotate with respect to the support about the Z-axis, able to form a first contact with the tape spring so as to control the deployment of the tape spring, wherein the tape spring is fixed between its two ends to a single fixing point on the support,
- wherein the arm is able to form a second contact with the tape spring so as to control the deployment of the tape spring,
- wherein a first end of the tape spring is able to deploy with respect to the single fixing point along a first axis perpendicular to the Z axis in a first direction, and
- a second end of the tape spring is able to simultaneously unfold along a second axis perpendicular to the Z axis in a second direction different from the first direction.
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