Patent ID: 8324545

Claim:
A foldable deployable panel device attached to a body of an object, the device comprising: a panel, which is maneuverable from a posture wrapping said body with a broad surface of said panel substantially tangential to the external surface of said body when said panel is in a folded position, to a posture erect with respect to said body when said panel is in a deployed position; a first pivot coupled with said body and said panel, said first pivot operative to constrain the motion of said panel to a first turning about a first turning axis, substantially parallel to the surface of said body, from said folded position to a first erect posture with respect to said body, wherein said first pivot is inoperative to constrain said motion to said first turning when said panel is displaced along said first turning axis into a second erect posture; a second pivot coupled with said body and said panel, said second pivot operative to constrain the motion of said panel to a second turning about a second turning axis, substantially perpendicular to said first turning axis, from said second erect posture to said deployed position, wherein said second pivot is inoperative to constrain said motion to said second turning when said panel is in said first erect posture; and an energy storing element energized in said folded position, said energy storing element operative to urge said panel to turnabout said first turning axis from said folded position to said first erect posture, move along said first turning axis from said first erect posture to said second erect posture, and turnabout said second turning axis from said second erect posture to said deployed position.