Patent ID: 11958639
Assignee: THALES ALENIA SPACE ITALIA S.P.A. CON UNICO SOCIO
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  E | IPC B

Claim 6:
7. An aerospace supporting frame comprising:
a plurality of rods each comprising two opposite ends; said rods being arranged so as to define two bases parallel and opposite each other, and two sides, which are parallel and opposite each other and are coupled to each other by said bases;
a plurality of joint nodes that couple said ends in a mutually rotating manner so as to be able to configure said supporting frame between a deployed operating condition and a compacted operating condition; said nodes being spaced apart from one another in the deployed operating condition and each being hinged to at least two of said rods; in the compacted operating condition, each of said nodes being placed side by side with two adjacent nodes so as to be arranged in series and form, together, two supporting members arranged at opposite longitudinal ends of the supporting frame;
wherein, when said supporting frame is in the compacted operating condition, for any pair of adjacent nodes, the two nodes of said pair define a first node having first shoulders and a second node having second shoulders, the first shoulders of said first node are coupled in contact respectively with the second shoulders of said second node along respective directions that are orthogonal to each other and to the corresponding first and second shoulders.