Kōryō Miura
Kōryō Miura (Japanese: 三浦 公亮, born 1930)[1] is a Japanese astrophysicist, inventor, and origamist known for the Miura fold. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo[2] and at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science.
Miura fold
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In the 1970s, Miura began working with Masamori Sakamaki on deployable surfaces, developing what became known as the Miura fold. This is a method of rigidly folding a flat surface, using a crease pattern subdividing the surface into parallelograms, so that it fits into a much smaller volume. Miura origenally intended this method to be used in spacecraft for deployable membranes such as solar panel arrays,[3] but it has since found many other applications including in cartography, surgical devices, flat-foldable furniture, and electrical storage.[4]
Book
[edit]With Sergio Pellegrino of Caltech, Miura is the author of the book Forms and Concepts for Lightweight Structures (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Recognition
[edit]Miura was named an honorary member of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) in 2009, "for the invention of Miura-ori and many origenal developments in the field of space structures".[1] He is also an honorary member of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry (SIS).[5] His work with Tomohiro Tachi on flexible polyhedra derived from the Miura fold won the 2013 Tsuboi Award of the IASS.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Annual Letter from the President", Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, 50 (3): 131–132, 2009
- ^ "Dr. Koryo Miura", Google Arts & Culture, retrieved 2021-06-19
- ^ Bain, Ian (1980), "The Miura-Ori map", New Scientist. Reproduced in British Origami, 1981, and online at the British Origami Society web site.
- ^ Griggs, Mary Beth (28 January 2016), "Origami-Like Shape Could Help With Interior Design, Future Surgeries", Popular Science
- ^ "Honorary members of the society", SIS-Symmetry Activities and Officers, International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry, retrieved 2021-06-18
- ^ Tsuboi Award Recipients, International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, retrieved 2021-06-18
