Invention Grant
- Patent Title: High throughput fabrication of soft machines
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Application No.: US15991008Application Date: 2018-05-29
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Publication No.: US10704537B2Publication Date: 2020-07-07
- Inventor: Jason Ming Ting , Alok Suryavamsee Tayi , Bobak Mosadegh , George M. Whitesides
- Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Applicant Address: US MA Cambridge
- Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Current Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Cambridge
- Agency: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
- Main IPC: F03G7/06
- IPC: F03G7/06 ; F15B15/10 ; B32B27/40 ; B32B7/02 ; B32B5/02 ; B32B27/08 ; B32B3/26 ; B32B37/04 ; B32B37/18 ; B29C65/02 ; B29C65/00

Abstract:
A soft robot device includes at least a first thermoplastic layer and a second thermoplastic layer, wherein at least one layer is comprised of an extensible thermoplastic material; at least one layer is an inextensible layer; and at least one layer comprises a pneumatic network, wherein the pneumatic network is configured to be in fluidic contact with a pressurizing source, wherein the first and second thermoplastic layers are thermally bonded to each other.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190024644A1 High Throughput Fabrication of Soft Machines Public/Granted day:2019-01-24
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