METHOD OF CONFIGURING A WING-MOUNTED TURBINE FOR GENERATING ELECTRICITY AND INCREASING THRUST

    公开(公告)号:US20240270404A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-15

    申请号:US18440997

    申请日:2024-02-14

    IPC分类号: B64D27/31 B64C11/20 F01D15/10

    摘要: A method of modeling a turbine mounted behind an aircraft wing for providing a specified proportion of a propulsive force in the aircraft flight direction to an amount of power generated by the turbine when driven by the airflow trailing the wings. The turbine converts a portion of the otherwise wasted energy in the rotational vortices trailing the aircraft wings into thrust that reduces aircraft drag while also providing electricity to power electrical systems on the aircraft. The method is also capable of modeling a turbine construction that will use the energy in the wake solely to generate electricity without increasing drag on the aircraft or solely to reduce drag without generating electricity. In one embodiment, the method saves computation time by using a recursive routine to define a preliminary turbine configuration based on an idealized vortex model and then matches it to the flow trailing an actual aircraft wing.

    VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20240233532A9

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-11

    申请号:US17607596

    申请日:2019-04-29

    发明人: Jiyong CAI

    摘要: There is disclosed a vehicle control device and method, wherein a vehicle and other vehicles within a certain range around the present vehicle exchange one of respective vehicle dimension information and vehicle model information as well as vehicle motion information, and the vehicle controls a motion of the vehicle according to information of the vehicle and information of other vehicles received. There is also disclosed a vehicle control system and method, wherein each vehicle transmits one of its respective vehicle dimension information and vehicle model information as well as vehicle motion information to a server, wherein the server calculates a travel scheme for each vehicle according to the information received.

    Method of designing a shape of an airframe of a supersonic aircraft, production method of a supersonic aircraft, and supersonic aircraft

    公开(公告)号:US12017800B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-25

    申请号:US17042720

    申请日:2019-02-21

    发明人: Tatsunori Yuhara

    摘要: [Object] To realize an improvement in design accuracy and a reduction in design time in a process of matching an equivalent cross-sectional area of a design shape of a supersonic aircraft to a target equivalent cross-sectional area in a sonic boom reduction method based on an equivalent cross-sectional area.
    [Solving Means] The technique includes: setting an initial shape of the airframe and a target equivalent cross-sectional area of the airframe; estimating a near field pressure waveform for the initial shape of the airframe assuming that the supersonic aircraft flies at a cruising speed; evaluating an equivalent cross-sectional area from the estimated near field pressure waveform for the initial shape of the airframe; and setting a Mach plane corresponding to the cruising speed, and setting a design curve on the Mach plane, the design curve corresponding to an initial curve at which the initial shape of the airframe and the Mach plane intersect so that the equivalent cross-sectional area approaches the target equivalent cross-sectional area. Then, the shape of the airframe is designed based on the design curve.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEFINING A SPECIFICATION OF A VEHICLE

    公开(公告)号:US20240176923A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-30

    申请号:US18284547

    申请日:2022-04-03

    IPC分类号: G06F30/15 B62D65/00

    CPC分类号: G06F30/15 B62D65/00

    摘要: Methods, systems, and networks for controlling design and manufacture of mechanically and electrically compliant VCM-based vehicles, in which a user manually and explicitly defines at least one vehicle characteristic and at least one VCM characteristic. User selection of one or more vehicle characteristics ensures that the selection of VCM characteristics will be that of VCM characteristics compatible with the selected vehicle characteristics. Similarly, user selection of one or more VCMs or VCM characteristics ensures that the selection of vehicle characteristics will be that of vehicle characteristics compatible with the selected VCM or VCM characteristics.