Patent ID: 7389612

Claim:
A geodesic structure comprising a plurality of conical elements, each conical element of said plurality of conical elements being a structurally single component having a cone base, a cone wall and a vertex, said cone wall defined by straight lines that extend from said base and intersect each other at said vertex, the length of a straight line from said vertex to said cone base defining a cone-wall length, wherein said plurality of conical elements are arranged in an overlapping arrangement, so as to form a shell that surrounds an inner volume, wherein a portion of said base of a first conical element overlaps with a portion of said cone wall of an adjacent conical element, such that at least one straight line of said cone wall of said first conical element extends substantially parallel to at least one straight line in said cone wall of said adjacent conical element so as to form together a straight strut between said vertex of said first conical element and said vertex of said adjacent conical element, and wherein said plurality of conical elements are arranged such that a distance and a direction of displacement between any two vertexes of adjacently placed conical elements provides an adjustability of said straight strut that is a strut distance that is infinitely variable between a minimum limit and a maximum limit by adjusting an amount of overlap, said maximum limit of said straight strut being slightly less than a sum of cone-wall lengths of any two adjacent conical elements and said minimum limit of said straight strut is being slightly greater than said cone wall length of one of said two adjacent conical elements.