Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ornithopter
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Application No.: US14759321Application Date: 2014-02-19
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Publication No.: US09745058B2Publication Date: 2017-08-29
- Inventor: Satoshi Kuroda , Tomoyuki Mori , Kazuya Hattori , Masato Tahara , Oki Takayama
- Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2013-032544 20130221
- International Application: PCT/JP2014/053924 WO 20140219
- International Announcement: WO2014/129502 WO 20140828
- Main IPC: B64C33/02
- IPC: B64C33/02 ; A63H27/00

Abstract:
An ornithopter includes a main wing mounted on a fuselage, and a control system configured to control a flapping motion of the main wing. The main wing includes an inner spar, an outer spar, and a wrist portion disposed between the inner spar and the outer spar and which varies a bending angle, which is a relative angle between the inner spar and the outer spar, within a predetermined angle range. The control system includes an actuator which performs a raising motion and a lowering motion of the inner spar by moving the inner spar in an upward direction and in a downward direction, an angle sensor which measures the bending angle, and a control unit which controls the actuator to move the inner spar in response to the measured bending angle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160009389A1 ORNITHOPTER Public/Granted day:2016-01-14
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