Patent classifications
E04B1/34384
Rapidly deployable air supported structure systems and related methods
Transportable and rapidly deployable air supported structure systems and related methods are disclosed. The air supported structure systems include at least one transportable container. The systems also include a flexible outer membrane configured to couple to a base in a substantially air-tight manner. The systems further include at least one air handling mechanism contained within the at least one container configured to force air between the outer membrane and the base to form an enclosure therebetween via internal air pressure. The systems are configurable between a packaged state with the outer membrane contained within the at least one container, and a deployed state with the outer membrane being coupled to the base and the at least one air handling mechanism forming the enclosure via the internal air pressure. The at least one container may form a portion of the base and/or provide for ingress and egress with the enclosure.
Exhibition stand
A structural system for constructing a stand, such as a promotional stand as used at trade fairs, exhibitions and events. The structural system includes at least two base elements and at least four support elements. The at least two base elements can be releasably connected to the at least four support elements so that, in an assembled state of the structural system, the at least four support elements extend between the two base elements in order to form with the at least two base elements one of a bottom partition and an upper partition of the stand. In a disassembled state of the structural system the at least two base elements and the at least four support elements are stackable.
MOBILE OFFICE STRUCTURE
A mobile office structure and comprises a base frame set including multiple first base frames and multiple second base frames. Multiple wheel sets are connected to the underside of each of the second base frames. A top frame set includes multiple first top frames and multiple second top frames. Multiple upright frames are located at four corners of a combination of the base frame sets and the top frame sets. Multiple separators are respectively connected between any two of the upright frames. Multiple linings are assembled between any of the two upright frames, and each lining is located corresponding to the inside of each of the separators. Multiple outer plates are assembled between any of the two upright frames, and each outer plate is located relative to the outside of each of the separators. A door plate assembly is installed between the base frame set and the top frame set.
MOBILE OFFICE STRUCTURE
A mobile office structure and comprises a base frame set including multiple first base frames and multiple second base frames. Multiple wheel sets are connected to the underside of each of the second base frames. A top frame set includes multiple first top frames and multiple second top frames. Multiple upright frames are located at four corners of a combination of the base frame sets and the top frame sets. Multiple separators are respectively connected between any two of the upright frames. Multiple linings are assembled between any of the two upright frames, and each lining is located corresponding to the inside of each of the separators. Multiple outer plates are assembled between any of the two upright frames, and each outer plate is located relative to the outside of each of the separators. A door plate assembly is installed between the base frame set and the top frame set.
OUTDOOR TO INDOOR SWIMMING POOL APPARATUS
A foldable enclosure can turn an outdoor spa or swimming pool into its indoor counterpart, allowing the pool or spa to be used when the outdoor temperature is cold or when the weather is bad. An expandable room-like structure can cover the pool or spa in the back yard of the house. When the structure is not used, it can be retracted so it does not occupy much space in the house or in the back yard. The enclosure can include a sliding cover that can be used to cover up the pool and to allow people to walk on it. The expandable structure includes a sliding outer wall, two rotating side walls, a sliding wall seal, and several roof blocks.
MULTI-PANEL FOLDABLE SHELTER SYSTEM
A compactable and portable shelter can include side panels, front and rear panels roof panels and a spine panel that are hingedly connected by continuous hinges in a manner that enables the panels to collapse onto each other and into a small profile unit for ease of transport, deployment and recovery. A window and door can be formed in at least one front or rear wall panel. Support brackets can hold wall panels upright at ninety degrees with respect to floor panels. A solar power system can provide electrical power for lighting and electronic device charging to occupants of the shelter. Adjustable legs connected at exterior corners of the base can level the left base flow panel and the right base floor panel. Panels can be thermally insulated.
ROLLABLE ROOF MOBILE HOUSE
An expandable house that has a roof that can be adjusted to a set angle. The house can be expanded to more than three times the space as compared to its original size when it is extended. The unique design in the method of making an expandable house is that the roof is very flexible, so it can be angled whenever it is required. When the house is retracted, the roof is stored on the side of the house, so the height of the house can be reduced in its compact form. This house can expand in two opposite directions. The walls and floors of the expandable rooms are stored on the sides of the main structure where the house expands, behind the stored roof. The entire expanding and retracting processes are aided with electric motors, so no manual labor is required.
SYSTEM AND METHODS EMPLOYING PREFABRICATED VOLUMETRIC CONSTRUCTION MODULES INCLUDING TRANSFORMING TRUSS ELEMENTS
Disclosed herein is the fabrication and implementation of prefabricated volumetric construction modules that include transitioning members that adjust between vertical support columns and structural trusses via lateral joints. Modification of vertical support columns to trusses enables open space configurations in volumetric construction. Each volumetric module includes a habitation zone and a truss zone. Folding or transitioning a vertical support column at the lateral joint positions a lower region of the support column from the habitation zone into the truss zone. The vertical support columns are transitioned in a specified order where within a given row of vertical support columns. Beginning from a first interior column on an edge-positioned transforming volumetric module, workers fold half of the vertical support columns of the given row into the truss arrangement in a first direction toward the edge-positioned transforming volumetric module. Continuing from a second interior column on an opposite edge-positioned transforming volumetric module, a worker folds a remaining half of the vertical support columns of the given row into the truss arrangement in a second direction toward the opposite edge-positioned transforming volumetric module.
SYSTEM AND METHODS EMPLOYING PREFABRICATED VOLUMETRIC CONSTRUCTION MODULES INCLUDING TRANSFORMING TRUSS ELEMENTS
Disclosed herein is the fabrication and implementation of prefabricated volumetric construction modules that include transitioning members that adjust between vertical support columns and structural trusses via lateral joints. Modification of vertical support columns to trusses enables open space configurations in volumetric construction. Each volumetric module includes a habitation zone and a truss zone. Folding or transitioning a vertical support column at the lateral joint positions a lower region of the support column from the habitation zone into the truss zone. The vertical support columns are transitioned in a specified order where within a given row of vertical support columns. Beginning from a first interior column on an edge-positioned transforming volumetric module, workers fold half of the vertical support columns of the given row into the truss arrangement in a first direction toward the edge-positioned transforming volumetric module. Continuing from a second interior column on an opposite edge-positioned transforming volumetric module, a worker folds a remining half of the vertical support columns of the given row into the truss arrangement in a second direction toward the opposite edge-positioned transforming volumetric module.
Portable segmentable/expandable module structures
A modular enclosure structure having at least three walls and comprised of at least three elongated posts selected from at least two elongated upright/vertical posts. Each post has a longitudinal hollow a flexible and durable compacted sheet material therein and wherein a narrow longitudinal through-slot aligned with the free end of each of the compacted sheet materials. Sheet material in each hollow is able to be externally drawn and retracted with manipulation of the free end. The free end of each sheet material has a latching member attached to either an elongated upright/vertical post member, having at least two latching members or to the two elongated posts having hollows and also cooperative latching members, wherein walls of sheet material are externally drawn from the posts with compacted sheet material to form an enclosure comprising at least three walls of sheet material.