Deformation-Control Design

• By leveraging insights from mechanical metamaterials, origami engineering, and compliant mechanisms, we create unique deformation functionalities through innovative geometric design.
• Our structures achieve a wide range of mechanical behaviors, including nonlinear load–displacement responses, morphing mechanisms that adapt to external forces, foldable and deployable structures, and monolithic components with built-in movable parts.
• Using our proprietary design and optimization platform, we provide effective design support for improving manufacturing processes involving deformable mechanisms—enabling weight reduction, part consolidation, and enhanced efficiency.
• Applications include: battery structural components, apparel, building materials, electronic parts, and optical devices, and more.

Vibration-Control Design

• By employing a novel geometry-based design approach—distinct from conventional methods—we control deformation and frequency characteristics to enhance performance in addressing complex vibration challenges.
• By utilizing simulations with varying levels of fidelity, we enable efficient design processes that contribute to solving challenges such as power saving through vibration amplification, vibration suppression, and weight reduction.
• By decomposing complex phenomena into constituent elements and focusing design efforts on the most influential factors, we deliver vibration solutions that address acoustic-structural coupling and structural strength challenges.
• Application Examples: brackets, bushings, haptic devices, manufacturing equipment, motors, turbines, and more.

Thermal and Fluid Control Design

• Leveraging our advanced design platform, we propose novel design solutions to address complex phenomena involving coupled fluid, thermal, structural, and acoustic interactions.
• We support everything from structural exploration to detailed design by utilizing various flow path representation methods and fidelity-appropriate computational models tailored to each design phase.
• Based on functional requirements, we derive optimal geometries that produce ideal flow and temperature fields.
• Application Examples: cooling channels, heating devices, mixing and transport flow paths, reactors, aerodynamic components, and more.

Acoustic Control Design

Crash Safety Design

• Our design platform enables extensive shape exploration that generates breakthrough designs, achieving performance improvements, weight reduction, miniaturization, and material substitution.
  
• By appropriately bridging fidelity levels—from component to system and from simplified to detailed models—we conduct effective design explorations tailored to each phase.
  
• We support shape exploration that maximizes potential for newly applied materials and manufacturing methods.
• Application Examples: vehicle body frame structures (designed for various collision scenarios), occupant and pedestrian protection components, packaging and cushioning materials, and more.

Design Utilizing Additive Manufacturing

• Development based on Additive Manufacturing (AM) increases design freedom, but simultaneously requires specialized shape processing, CAE, optimization techniques, and expertise on the characteristics of complex geometries to fully realize its potential.
• By leveraging our computational environment and expertise in metamaterials, we enable simulation-driven design exploration involving complex geometries.
• Utilizing Additive Manufacturing (AM), we accelerate product performance improvement, component integration, and functional consolidation.
• Application Examples: high-performance heat exchangers, deformation-adaptive components utilizing anisotropic elasticity, multifunctional integration, monomaterial design, and more.