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公开(公告)号:US20020070313A1
公开(公告)日:2002-06-13
申请号:US10073828
申请日:2002-02-11
Inventor: Paul B. MacCready , Bart D. Hibbs , Robert F. Curtin , Kyle D. Swanson , Paul Belik
IPC: B64B001/20 , B64C001/00 , B64C017/00
CPC classification number: B64D27/24 , B64C1/26 , B64C3/10 , B64C3/14 , B64C9/24 , B64C39/024 , B64C39/10 , B64C2201/021 , B64C2201/028 , B64C2201/042 , B64C2201/086 , B64C2201/104 , B64C2201/122 , B64C2201/141 , B64C2201/146 , B64C2201/165 , B64C2201/187 , B64D27/02 , B64D37/30 , B64D2041/005 , Y02T50/12 , Y02T50/32 , Y02T50/44 , Y02T50/64 , Y02T90/36
Abstract: Disclosed is an aircraft, configured to have a wide range of flight speeds, consuming low levels of power for an extended period of time, while supporting a communications platform with an unobstructed downward-looking view. The aircraft includes an extendable slat at the leading edge of the wing, and a reflexed trailing edge. The aircraft comprises a flying wing extending laterally between two ends and a center point. The wing is swept and has a relatively constant chord. The aircraft also includes a power module configured to provide power via a fuel cell. The fuel cell stores liquid hydrogen as fuel, but uses gaseous hydrogen in the fuel cell. A fuel tank heater is used to control the boil-rate of the fuel in the fuel tank. The aircraft of the invention includes a support structure including a plurality of supports, where the supports form a tetrahedron that affixes to the wing.
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公开(公告)号:US20020070312A1
公开(公告)日:2002-06-13
申请号:US10073518
申请日:2002-02-11
Inventor: Paul B. MacCready , Bart D. Hibbs , Robert F. Curtin , Kyle D. Swanson , Paul Belik
IPC: B64B001/20 , B64C001/00 , B64C017/00
CPC classification number: B64D27/24 , B64C1/26 , B64C3/10 , B64C3/14 , B64C9/24 , B64C39/024 , B64C39/10 , B64C2201/021 , B64C2201/028 , B64C2201/042 , B64C2201/086 , B64C2201/104 , B64C2201/122 , B64C2201/141 , B64C2201/146 , B64C2201/165 , B64C2201/187 , B64D27/02 , B64D37/30 , B64D2041/005 , Y02T50/12 , Y02T50/32 , Y02T50/44 , Y02T50/64 , Y02T90/36
Abstract: Disclosed is an aircraft, configured to have a wide range of flight speeds, consuming low levels of power for an extended period of time, while supporting a communications platform with an unobstructed downward-looking view. The aircraft includes an extendable slat at the leading edge of the wing, and a reflexed trailing edge. The aircraft comprises a flying wing extending laterally between two ends and a center point. The wing is swept and has a relatively constant chord. The aircraft also includes a power module configured to provide power via a fuel cell. The fuel cell stores liquid hydrogen as fuel, but uses gaseous hydrogen in the fuel cell. A fuel tank heater is used to control the boil-rate of the fuel in the fuel tank. The aircraft of the invention includes a support structure including a plurality of supports, where the supports form a tetrahedron that affixes to the wing.
Abstract translation: 公开了一种被配置为具有宽范围的飞行速度的飞机,在延长的时间段内消耗低水平的功率,同时以无阻碍的向下观看的方式支持通信平台。 飞机在翼的前缘包括可延伸的板条,以及反射的后缘。 飞机包括在两端之间横向延伸的飞翼和中心点。 机翼被扫掠并具有相对恒定的和弦。 该飞机还包括被配置为经由燃料电池提供电力的功率模块。 燃料电池将液态氢作为燃料储存,而在燃料电池中使用气态氢。 燃料箱加热器用于控制燃料箱中的燃料的沸腾率。 本发明的飞行器包括支撑结构,该支撑结构包括多个支撑件,其中支撑件形成固定在机翼上的四面体。
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公开(公告)号:US11724801B2
公开(公告)日:2023-08-15
申请号:US16178892
申请日:2018-11-02
Applicant: Textron Systems Corporation
Inventor: Sean Marshall Baity , David D. Billingsley , Brad S. Galloway , Richard M. Chapman
CPC classification number: B64C29/0033 , B64C39/10 , B64C1/26 , B64C11/44 , B64C11/46 , B64C39/024 , B64C2039/105 , B64C2201/021 , B64C2201/024 , B64C2201/028 , B64C2201/042 , B64C2201/088 , B64C2201/104 , B64C2201/108 , B64C2201/165 , B64C2211/00 , B64D27/24 , G05D1/0858
Abstract: An aircraft includes an airframe having a fixed-wing section and a plurality of articulated electric rotors, at least some of which are variable-position rotors having different operating configurations based on rotor position. A first operating configuration is a vertical-flight configuration in which the rotors generate primarily vertical thrust for vertical flight, and a second operating configuration is a horizontal-flight configuration in which the rotors generate primarily horizontal thrust for horizontal fixed-wing flight. Control circuitry independently controls rotor thrust and rotor orientation of the variable-position rotors to provide thrust-vectoring maneuvering. The fixed-wing section may employ removable wing panels so the aircraft can be deployed both in fixed-wing and rotorcraft configurations for different missions.
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公开(公告)号:US11656638B1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-23
申请号:US17133610
申请日:2020-12-23
Applicant: Wing Aviation LLC
Inventor: Dinuka Abeywardena , Damien Jourdan
CPC classification number: G05D1/106 , B64D47/08 , G01C11/06 , G01C21/32 , G06V20/13 , B64C2201/028 , B64C2201/123 , B64C2201/127 , B64C2201/141 , B64C2201/146
Abstract: Described is a method that involves operating an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to begin a flight, where the UAV relies on a navigation system to navigate to a destination. During the flight, the method involves operating a camera to capture images of the UAV's environment, and analyzing the images to detect features in the environment. The method also involves establishing a correlation between features detected in different images, and using location information from the navigation system to localize a feature detected in different images. Further, the method involves generating a flight log that includes the localized feature. Also, the method involves detecting a failure involving the navigation system, and responsively operating the camera to capture a post-failure image. The method also involves identifying one or more features in the post-failure image, and determining a location of the UAV based on a relationship between an identified feature and a localized feature.
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公开(公告)号:US11649053B2
公开(公告)日:2023-05-16
申请号:US17384979
申请日:2021-07-26
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Gur Kimchi , Louis Leroi LeGrand, III , Dominic Timothy Shiosaki , Ricky Dean Welsh
CPC classification number: B64C39/024 , B64C11/46 , B64C27/20 , B64C27/26 , B64C29/02 , B64C39/062 , B64C2201/027 , B64C2201/028 , B64C2201/042 , B64C2201/104 , B64C2201/128 , B64C2201/165
Abstract: Described is an apparatus and method of an aerial vehicle, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) that can operate in either a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) orientation or a horizontal flight orientation. The aerial vehicle includes a plurality of propulsion mechanisms that enable the aerial vehicle to move in any of the six degrees of freedom (surge, sway, heave, pitch, yaw, and roll) when in the VTOL orientation. The aerial vehicle also includes a ring wing that surrounds the propulsion mechanisms and provides lift to the aerial vehicle when the aerial vehicle is operating in the horizontal flight orientation.
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公开(公告)号:US20180281942A1
公开(公告)日:2018-10-04
申请号:US15544698
申请日:2015-11-19
Applicant: Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
Inventor: Mark W. Scott , Colin Kemater Bunting
CPC classification number: B64C29/02 , B64C25/04 , B64C2201/028 , B64C2201/048 , B64C2201/088 , B64D31/06
Abstract: A flying wing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is provided and includes an empennageless-fuselage from which foldable wings extend outwardly, an empennageless-nacelle supported on each of the wings and a rigid rotor propeller disposed on each empennageless-nacelle, each of the propellers being drivable to rotate about only a single rotational axis defined along a longitudinal axis of the corresponding empennageless-nacelle and being fully cyclically controllable.
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公开(公告)号:US10054958B2
公开(公告)日:2018-08-21
申请号:US14695693
申请日:2015-04-24
Applicant: Son F. Creasman
Inventor: Son F. Creasman
IPC: G05D1/10 , B64C29/02 , B64C3/56 , B64C9/00 , B64C39/02 , B64C11/48 , B64F1/00 , B64C3/54 , B64C25/04 , G05D1/00
CPC classification number: G05D1/102 , B64C3/546 , B64C3/56 , B64C9/00 , B64C11/48 , B64C25/04 , B64C29/02 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/028 , B64C2201/102 , B64C2201/108 , B64F1/007 , G05D1/0011
Abstract: One example embodiment includes a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The VTOL UAV includes a flight control system configured to provide avionic control of the VTOL UAV in a hover mode and in a level-flight mode. The VTOL UAV also includes a body encapsulating an engine and the flight control system. The VTOL UAV further includes a propeller disk coupled to the engine and configured to provide vertical thrust in the hover mode and to provide horizontal thrust for flight during the level-flight mode.
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公开(公告)号:US09944383B2
公开(公告)日:2018-04-17
申请号:US15052558
申请日:2016-02-24
Applicant: David R. Williams , Jürgen Seidel
Inventor: David R. Williams , Jürgen Seidel
CPC classification number: B64C15/14 , B64C39/024 , B64C39/10 , B64C2201/028 , B64C2201/104 , B64D33/00
Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling a yaw moment of a flight vehicle, such as an aircraft. A wing structure of the flight vehicle has a first opening or actuator positioned by a first apex section of a first side of the wing, and has a second opening or actuator positioned away from or at a distance from a second apex section of a second side of the wing. The first side and the second side can each be positioned or located opposite a centerline of the wing or wing structure. A pressure source or other pressure supply device is in communication with the first opening or actuator and the second opening or actuator to which a pressurized fluid, such as air, is controlled and delivered to control or vary the yaw moment of the flight vehicle.
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公开(公告)号:US20180039271A1
公开(公告)日:2018-02-08
申请号:US15672246
申请日:2017-08-08
Applicant: PARROT DRONES
Inventor: Ariel RIMOUX , Frédéric PIRAT
CPC classification number: G05D1/0088 , A63H27/12 , A63H30/04 , B64C13/18 , B64C39/024 , B64C39/10 , B64C2201/021 , B64C2201/028 , B64C2201/127 , B64C2201/141 , B64C2201/146 , G05D1/0016 , G05D1/0038 , G05D1/042 , G05D1/0653 , G05D1/0808
Abstract: A drone that includes an automatic piloting system that receives internal and/or external piloting instructions, as well as data of instantaneous attitude (φ*, θ*), altitude (z*) and speed (V*) delivered by sensors. Set point calculation circuits calculate, as a function of a model of the aerodynamic behaviour of the drone in flight, roll (φ) and/or pitch (θ) set points and/or speed set points (V) and/or altitude set points (z) corresponding to the internal and/or external piloting instructions received. Correction and control circuits control the propulsion system and the drone control surface servomechanisms. A system further allows generating internally piloting instructions for autonomous flight modes such as automatic take-off or automatic landing.
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公开(公告)号:US09849968B2
公开(公告)日:2017-12-26
申请号:US14560964
申请日:2014-12-04
Applicant: Jonathon J. Linch , Kyle M. Rahrig
Inventor: Jonathon J. Linch , Kyle M. Rahrig
CPC classification number: B64C11/001 , B64C11/08 , B64C11/18 , B64C39/024 , B64C39/10 , B64C2039/105 , B64C2201/028 , B64C2201/162 , B64C2220/00 , Y02T50/12
Abstract: A propeller includes a hub coaxially surrounding a longitudinal axis. A ring shroud coaxially surrounds the longitudinal axis and is spaced radially from the hub. At least one propeller blade is fixedly attached to both the hub and ring shroud and extends radially therebetween for mutual rotation therewith. At least one stub blade has a first stub end radially spaced from a second stub end. The first stub end is fixedly attached to a selected one of the hub and ring shroud. The second stub end is cantilevered from the first stub end and is radially interposed between the first stub end and the selected one of the hub and ring shroud.
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