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US 9,789,542 B2Granted
Fixture apparatus
AssigneeROLLS-ROYCE plc
InventorsStewart Lowth, Dragos A. Axinte, Mark H. Raffles, Kiran Kolluru
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Abstract
Fixture Apparatus and methods of manufacturing fixture apparatus. Fixture apparatus comprising: a first body to at least partially support an object, the first body including a structure having variable stiffness along at least a first axis of the first body.
Claims15
Fixture apparatus comprising:
- a first body to at least partially support an object, the first body including a structure having variable stiffness along at least a first axis of the first body,
- wherein the structure comprises a plurality of support members, at least one characteristic of the plurality of support members varies along at least the first axis of the first body to provide the variable stiffness,
- wherein the structure includes a plurality of elongate members, and the plurality of support members form a plurality of cross links that extend between adjacent ones of the plurality of elongate members,
- wherein at least some of the plurality of elongate members have a serpentine configuration and are arranged to define a plurality of adjacent columns, and
- wherein a first portion of the support members extend between adjacent columns in a first dimension, and a second portion of the support members extend between adjacent elongate members within a column in a second dimension.
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A method of manufacturing fixture apparatus, the method comprising:
- providing a first body to at least partially support an object, the first body including a structure having variable stiffness along at least a first axis of the first body, the structure comprising a plurality of support members and a plurality of elongate members, at least one characteristic of the plurality of support members varying along at least the first axis of the first body to provide the variable stiffness, the plurality of support members forming a plurality of cross links that extend between adjacent ones of the plurality of elongate members,
- wherein at least some of the plurality of elongate members have a serpentine configuration and are arranged to define a plurality of adjacent columns, and
- wherein a first portion of the support members extend between adjacent columns in a first dimension, and a second portion of the support members extend between adjacent elongate members within a column in a second dimension.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.