US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY on Jan. 13 for "Hybrid drive omni-directional motion actuator based on origami structure" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,897, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Hybrid drive omni-directional motion actuator based on origami structure" was invented by Jituo Li (Hangzhou, China), Haipeng Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Juncai Long (Hangzhou, China) and Guodong Lu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid drive omni-directional motion actuator based on an origami structure, comprising at least one actuating module. The actuating module comprises a columnar shell deforming based on the origami structure, an upper cover plate and a lower cover plate. The columnar shell is the origami structure derived from Wat...