Patent ID: 6970143

Claim:
A boom structure that is deployable from a collapsed, stowable configuration to an elongated truss configuration, comprising a plurality of truss-forming multi-sided bays, a respective one of which contains a pair of battens joined together at corresponding corner regions thereof by foldable longerons therebetween, and wherein a respective side of a bay contains a plurality of diagonal cord members crossing one another and connected to diagonally opposed corner regions of said respective side, such that when said foldable longerons are in their folded positions, said battens are nested together against one another in a stacked arrangement and said diagonal cord members flex into a compact stowed configuration between adjacent battens; and wherein a corner region of a batten includes clamping members that are configured to engage an elongated structural tube in the stowed configuration of said boom structure and, in the course of deployment of said boom structure outwardly from its stowed configuration, said clamping members travel along and leave said elongated structural tube, and engage threads of an elongated threaded shaft that is coaxial with and extends outwardly from said elongated structural tube.