Biological Prototype Acquisition Based on Biological Coupling in Bionic Design

Table 2

The invention principles corresponding to the structures and biological prototypes.

	Invention principle	Biological prototypes
Upper skewer structure	1 Segmentation	A gecko breaking its tail; a cicada shedding its shell; a broken lotus root.
	15 Dynamicity	The visual processing system; rock ants nesting.
	19 Periodic action	Insects circulating nutrients; clownfish avoiding sea anemone thorns.
Skewer-pushing structure	1 Segmentation	A gecko breaking its tail; photosynthesis respiration.
	2 Extraction	Fireflies glowing; snail eyes; purple sea urchin vision.
	4 Asymmetry	Passive ventilation in black-tailed prairie rat caves.
Walking plate structure	1 Segmentation	A gecko breaking its tail.
	15 Dynamicity	Frog predation; spiral flow.
	19 Periodic action	Gaboon viper.
	34 Rejecting and regenerating parts	Shelling; molting.
Packaging structure	1 Segmentation	A gecko breaking its tail.
	3 Local condition	The visual processing system; shark skin.
	5 Consolidation	Antigen-antibody reaction; hermit crab.
	25 Self-service	Kangaroo pouches; auditory feedback; bat positioning; fruit maturation.
	40 Composite materials	Hedgehog spines...

Note: Some biological examples in this table were derived from the ontology biological instance database developed by Vincent and the online database AskNature (http://www.asknature.org), and their respective information was sourced from web search engines such as Wikipedia.