Deployable boom and deployable boom with solar blanket

A deployable boom structure is provided that, in one embodiment, includes one or more perforated tapes, a drive mechanism with a sprocket mechanism for engaging each of the perforated tapes to transition the tapes between an undeployed state and a deployed state, and three battens that each extend b...

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Hauptverfasser:	Harvey, Thomas J, Ring, Timothy J, Harvey, Colleen R
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	BUILDING BUILDING MATERIALS BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER ELECTRICITY FENCING FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS GENERATION GENERATION OF ELECTRIC POWER BY CONVERSION OF INFRA-REDRADIATION, VISIBLE LIGHT OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, E.G. USINGPHOTOVOLTAIC [PV] MODULES MASTS STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL
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Zusammenfassung:	A deployable boom structure is provided that, in one embodiment, includes one or more perforated tapes, a drive mechanism with a sprocket mechanism for engaging each of the perforated tapes to transition the tapes between an undeployed state and a deployed state, and three battens that each extend between the tapes. At least one of the battens is a sliding batten, i.e., a batten that engages each of the tapes but through which each of the tapes can slide. Lanyards and detents cooperate to fix the location of a sliding batten relative to the tapes after a predetermined length of each of the tapes has slid through the batten. In a particular embodiment, the deployable boom structure is coupled with a solar blanket that can be Z-folded.