Patent ID: 11879497
Assignee: UNIVERSITAT POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUNYA
Field: Mechanical elements (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F | IPC F

Claim 0:
1. Morphable sheet structure comprising a succession of adjacent flexible elongated rods laterally connected to each other defining a sheet structure, each rod having two ends and defining a longitudinal axis from one end to the other end; the rods are grouped in pairs, and:
each pair of adjacent rods are connected to each other through a first connector tightly connected to a second connector complementary with the first connector, being the first connector part of one rod of the pair of adjacent rods and being the second connector part of the other rod of the pair of adjacent rods;
being the first connector and the second connector slidably movable to each other in the direction of the longitudinal axis;
the first connector and/or the second connector extending along the entire longitude of the rod;
the flexible elongated rods are bendable or twistable along the longitudinal axis simultaneously with the sliding movement of the relative position between adjacent rods;
the morphable sheet structure is morphable from a flat or singly curved shape into a doubly curved shape with non-zero Gaussian curvature.