Fluidic actuator system and method

Madrone, Leila Marcia; Betts, Kyle Douglas; Lynn, Peter Sturt; Basel, Louis Hong; Ridley, Brent; Griffith, Saul Thomas; McBride, James Dylan; Lamb, Jeffrey; Suan, Eric Preston Lien; Lin, Erica; Erickson, Joshua; Romanin, Vincent Domenic

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A - human necessities
A01 - agriculture
A21 - baking
A22 - butchering
A23 - foods or foodstuffs
A24 - tobacco
A41 - wearing apparel
A42 - headwear
A43 - footwear
A44 - haberdashery
A45 - hand or travelling articles
A46 - brushware
A47 - furniture
A61 - medical or veterinary science
A62 - life-saving
A63 - sports
A99 - subject matter not otherwise provided for in this section
B - performing operations
B01 - physical or chemical processes or apparatus in general
B02 - crushing, pulverising, or disintegrating
B03 - separation of solid materials using liquids or using pneumatic tables or jigs
B04 - centrifugal apparatus or machines for carrying-out physical or chemical processes
B05 - spraying or atomising in general
B06 - generating or transmitting mechanical vibrations in general
B07 - separating solids from solids
B08 - cleaning
B09 - disposal of solid waste
B21 - mechanical metal-working without essentially removing material
B22 - casting
B23 - machine tools
B24 - grinding
B25 - hand tools
B26 - hand cutting tools
B27 - working or preserving wood or similar material
B28 - working cement, clay, or stone
B29 - working of plastics
B30 - presses
B31 - making articles of paper, cardboard or material worked in a manner analogous to paper
B32 - layered products
B33 - additive manufacturing technology
B41 - printing
B42 - bookbinding
B43 - writing or drawing implements
B44 - decorative arts
B60 - vehicles in general
B61 - railways
B62 - land vehicles for travelling otherwise than on rails
B63 - ships or other waterborne vessels
B64 - aircraft
B65 - conveying
B66 - hoisting
B67 - opening, closing {or cleaning} bottles, jars or similar containers
B68 - saddlery
B81 - microstructural technology
B82 - nanotechnology
B99 - subject matter not otherwise provided for in this section
C - chemistry
C01 - inorganic chemistry
C02 - treatment of water, waste water, sewage, or sludge
C03 - glass
C04 - cements
C05 - fertilisers
C06 - explosives
C07 - organic chemistry
C08 - organic macromolecular compounds
C09 - dyes
C10 - petroleum, gas or coke industries
C11 - animal or vegetable oils, fats, fatty substances or waxes
C12 - biochemistry
C13 - sugar industry
C14 - skins
C21 - metallurgy of iron
C22 - metallurgy
C23 - coating metallic material
C25 - electrolytic or electrophoretic processes
C30 - crystal growth
C40 - combinatorial technology
C99 - subject matter not otherwise provided for in this section
D - textiles
D01 - natural or man-made threads or fibres
D02 - yarns
D03 - weaving
D04 - braiding
D05 - sewing
D06 - treatment of textiles or the like
D07 - ropes
D10 - indexing scheme associated with sublasses of section d, relating to textiles
D21 - paper-making
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E01 - construction of roads, railways, or bridges
E02 - hydraulic engineering
E03 - water supply
E04 - building
E05 - locks
E06 - doors, windows, shutters, or roller blinds in general
E21 - earth drilling
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F01 - machines or engines in general
F02 - combustion engines
F03 - machines or engines for liquids
F04 - positive - displacement machines for liquids
F05 - indexing schemes relating to engines or pumps in various subclasses of classes f01-f04
F15 - fluid-pressure actuators
F16 - engineering elements and units
F17 - storing or distributing gases or liquids
F21 - lighting
F22 - steam generation
F23 - combustion apparatus
F24 - heating
F25 - refrigeration or cooling
F26 - drying
F27 - furnaces
F28 - heat exchange in general
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F42 - ammunition
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G - physics
G01 - measuring
G02 - optics
G03 - photography
G04 - horology
G05 - controlling
G06 - computing
G07 - checking-devices
G08 - signalling
G09 - education
G10 - musical instruments
G11 - information storage
G12 - instrument details
G16 - information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for specific application fields
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H02 - generation
H03 - basic electronic circuitry
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Title: Fluidic actuator system and method

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A pneumatically actuated solar panel array system that includes a plurality of separate actuator assemblies that each have a top plate and bottom plate and a first and second bellows that each extend between and are coupled to the top and bottom plates at a respective top head and bottom head, the first and second bellows being configured to be separately pneumatically inflated, where the pneumatic inflation expands the bellows along a length. The pneumatically actuated solar panel array system can also include a plurality of solar panels coupled to the actuator assemblies with the solar panels being configured to be actuated based on inflation of one or more bellows associated with the plurality of actuator assembles.

Inventors:: Madrone, Leila Marcia; Betts, Kyle Douglas; Lynn, Peter Sturt; Basel, Louis Hong; Ridley, Brent; Griffith, Saul Thomas; McBride, James Dylan; Lamb, Jeffrey; Suan, Eric Preston Lien; Lin, Erica; Erickson, Joshua; Romanin, Vincent Domenic

Issue Date:: Tue Nov 20 00:00:00 EST 2018

Research Org.:: Sunfolding, Inc., San Francisco, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1531373

Patent Number(s):: 10135388

Application Number:: 15/012,715

Assignee:: Sunfolding, Inc. (San Francisco, CA)

Patent Classifications (CPCs):: F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F15 - FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS F15B - SYSTEMS ACTING BY MEANS OF FLUIDS IN GENERAL

H - ELECTRICITY H02 - GENERATION H02S - GENERATION OF ELECTRIC POWER BY CONVERSION OF INFRA-RED RADIATION, VISIBLE LIGHT OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, e.g. USING PHOTOVOLTAIC [PV] MODULES

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F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F15 - FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS F15B - SYSTEMS ACTING BY MEANS OF FLUIDS IN GENERAL
F15B15/10 - the motor being of diaphragm type

H - ELECTRICITY H02 - GENERATION H02S - GENERATION OF ELECTRIC POWER BY CONVERSION OF INFRA-RED RADIATION, VISIBLE LIGHT OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, e.g. USING PHOTOVOLTAIC [PV] MODULES
H02S20/30 - Supporting structures being movable or adjustable, e.g. for angle adjustment
H02S20/32 - specially adapted for solar tracking

Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y02 - TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
Y02E10/47 - Mountings or tracking

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DOE Contract Number:: AR0000330

Resource Type:: Patent

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2016-02-01

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 14 SOLAR ENERGY

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                    Madrone, Leila Marcia, Betts, Kyle Douglas, Lynn, Peter Sturt, Basel, Louis Hong, Ridley, Brent, Griffith, Saul Thomas, McBride, James Dylan, Lamb, Jeffrey, Suan, Eric Preston Lien, Lin, Erica, Erickson, Joshua, and Romanin, Vincent Domenic. Fluidic actuator system and method.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Madrone, Leila Marcia, Betts, Kyle Douglas, Lynn, Peter Sturt, Basel, Louis Hong, Ridley, Brent, Griffith, Saul Thomas, McBride, James Dylan, Lamb, Jeffrey, Suan, Eric Preston Lien, Lin, Erica, Erickson, Joshua, & Romanin, Vincent Domenic. Fluidic actuator system and method.  United States.

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                    Madrone, Leila Marcia, Betts, Kyle Douglas, Lynn, Peter Sturt, Basel, Louis Hong, Ridley, Brent, Griffith, Saul Thomas, McBride, James Dylan, Lamb, Jeffrey, Suan, Eric Preston Lien, Lin, Erica, Erickson, Joshua, and Romanin, Vincent Domenic. Tue .  
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  title        = {Fluidic actuator system and method},

  author       = {Madrone, Leila Marcia and Betts, Kyle Douglas and Lynn, Peter Sturt and Basel, Louis Hong and Ridley, Brent and Griffith, Saul Thomas and McBride, James Dylan and Lamb, Jeffrey and Suan, Eric Preston Lien and Lin, Erica and Erickson, Joshua and Romanin, Vincent Domenic},

  abstractNote = {A pneumatically actuated solar panel array system that includes a plurality of separate actuator assemblies that each have a top plate and bottom plate and a first and second bellows that each extend between and are coupled to the top and bottom plates at a respective top head and bottom head, the first and second bellows being configured to be separately pneumatically inflated, where the pneumatic inflation expands the bellows along a length. The pneumatically actuated solar panel array system can also include a plurality of solar panels coupled to the actuator assemblies with the solar panels being configured to be actuated based on inflation of one or more bellows associated with the plurality of actuator assembles.},

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Title: Fluidic actuator system and method

Abstract

Citation Formats

Mirror for motor vehicles patent, September 1988

Flexible Beam Structures patent, November 1966

Gripping actuator with independently flexible cylinders patent, October 1992

Bellows actuator patent, January 1993

Servo Pressure Transducer patent, August 1971

Thermoplastic jounce bumpers patent, February 2014

Flexible robotic links and manipulator trunks made thereform patent, January 1992

Shear flexibility for structures patent, May 1976

Flexible arm, particularly a robot arm patent, January 1985

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Robotic arm systems patent, September 1990

Strain Amplification Devices and Methods patent-application, May 2009

Worm-like mechanism patent, June 2012

Robot arm structure patent, February 1990

Actuators for simulating muscle activity in robotics patent, December 1997

Method and system employing double-acting, fluid-driven twistor-pairs as combined joints and motors in arthrobots patent, June 1988

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Directional stabilizer ring and fluid spring assembly including same patent, November 2009

Method and system employing strings of opposed gaseous-fluid inflatable tension actuators in jointed arms, legs, beams and columns for controlling their movements patent, November 1988

Axially contractable actuator patent, July 1990

Reinforced Bellows patent, January 1960

Solar collector structure patent, January 1980

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Antenna with positionable reflector patent, June 1991

Method for mass producing solar radiation reflectors patent, January 1986

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patent, November 1966

Gripping actuator with independently flexible cylinders
patent, October 1992

Bellows actuator
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Thermoplastic jounce bumpers
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patent, January 1992

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patent, May 1976

Flexible arm, particularly a robot arm
patent, January 1985

Hydraulic-Based Rotational System for Solar Concentrators that Resists High Wind Loads Without a Mechanical Lock
patent-application, February 2010

Robotic arm systems
patent, September 1990

Strain Amplification Devices and Methods
patent-application, May 2009

Worm-like mechanism
patent, June 2012

Robot arm structure
patent, February 1990

Actuators for simulating muscle activity in robotics
patent, December 1997

Method and system employing double-acting, fluid-driven twistor-pairs as combined joints and motors in arthrobots
patent, June 1988

Fluid actuators
patent, August 1991

Directional stabilizer ring and fluid spring assembly including same
patent, November 2009

Method and system employing strings of opposed gaseous-fluid inflatable tension actuators in jointed arms, legs, beams and columns for controlling their movements
patent, November 1988

Axially contractable actuator
patent, July 1990

Reinforced Bellows
patent, January 1960

Solar collector structure
patent, January 1980

Turning collectors for solar radiation
patent, September 1976

Flexidigit robotic manipulator
patent, July 1989

Control Systems and Methods for Estimating Engine Coolant Heat Loss
patent-application, May 2010

Servo tracking apparatus
patent, December 1977

Positioning, exploration, and/or intervention device, in particular in the field of endoscopy and/or mini-invasive surgery
patent, April 2005

Flexible Corrugated-Metal Wall for Collapsible and Expansible Vessels
patent, December 1910

Operating mechanism
patent, January 2001

Articulated arm
patent, March 2018

Lightweight solar panel support
patent, May 1989

Multi-Axis Metamorphic Actuator and Drive System and Method
patent-application, May 2011

Antenna with positionable reflector
patent, June 1991

Method for mass producing solar radiation reflectors
patent, January 1986

Method of Fabricating Multiple-Ply Bellows
patent, April 1974

Solar Panel System and Methods of Passive Tracking
patent-application, November 2012

Testable and Pressurized Multiple Ply Bellows
patent, October 1969

Blends of and methods of blending EVOH polymers and ethylene based polymers having improved environmental stress cracking or environmental fatigue resistance, and products therefrom
patent, April 2000

Fluid-Operated Manipulator
patent-application, August 2012

Flexible manipulator
patent, October 1998

Pressurizable structures comprising different surface sections
patent-application, March 2006

Blow mold for the production of bellows made of a highly elastic plastic
patent, October 1978

Bellows actuator
patent, August 1984

Control apparatus and control method of elastic body actuator as well as control program thereof
patent, April 2014

Pneumatic drive for solar concentrators
patent, January 1984

Pneumatic actuator
patent, February 2008

Fluidic solar actuator
patent, April 2017

Fluid-operated manipulator
patent, October 2014

Tentacle-like manipulators with adjustable tension lines
patent, June 1994