Patent ID: 7941978
Filing Date: 2011-05-17
Classification: B64G,E04H,H01Q

Abstract:
1. A collapsible and deployable hierarchical open lattice assembly comprised of a plurality of cube-shaped hub boxes and trusses connecting two or more hub boxes together, said assembly comprised of: a. a plurality of cube-shaped hub boxes; b. one or more trusses connecting two or more hub boxes, said trusses comprised of four straight and rigid longerons connecting four hinge nodes of a first hub box by said resilient joints to four hinge nodes of a second hub box by said resilient joints with the neutral shape of the flexures of the trusses' resilient joints being the deployed state, whereby multiple hub boxes connected by longerons may create a hierarchical truss of trusses in either two or three dimensions that can be collapsed first into two dimensions and then into a single dimension.