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公开(公告)号：US11693407B2
公开(公告)日：2023-07-04
申请号：US16866458
申请日：2020-05-04
Applicant: Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation
Inventor： Jessica E. Duda , John Tylko , David Mindell , Fabrice Kunzi , Michael Piedmonte , John Allee , Joshua Torgerson , Jason Ryan , James Donald Paduano , John Brooke Wissler , Andrew Musto , Wendy Feenstra
CPC classification number: G05D1/0088 , B25J11/00 , B64D43/00 , B64D45/00 , G05D1/101 , B64D2045/0075 , B64D2045/0085 , G06N5/02
Abstract: An aircrew automation system that provides a pilot with high-fidelity knowledge of the aircraft's physical state, and notifies that pilot of any deviations in expected state based on predictive models. The aircrew automation may be provided as a non-invasive ride-along aircrew automation system that perceives the state of the aircraft through visual techniques, derives the aircraft state vector and other aircraft information, and communicates any deviations from expected aircraft state to the pilot.
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公开(公告)号：US11623418B2
公开(公告)日：2023-04-11
申请号：US16504720
申请日：2019-07-08
Applicant: The Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation
Inventor： Chathuranga Kuruppuarachchige , Edward Albert Wen , Josiah Hughes , Michelle Mahon
IPC: B29C70/54 , B29C73/34 , B29C35/02 , B64F5/10 , B29K307/04 , B29L31/30 , B29K101/10 , B29K105/08
Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for curing a composite part. The method includes the steps of: disposing a heat blanket at a composite material; applying, with a controller, power to heaters distributed across multiple cells of a heat blanket to heat the composite material at the heat blanket; monitoring, with the controller, a temperature of the composite material at each of the multiple cells via thermocouples distributed across the multiple cells; and individually adjusting, with the controller, an amount of power applied to the heaters, for each of the multiple cells, in response to the monitored temperature and a target temperature.
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公开(公告)号：US20230063152A1
公开(公告)日：2023-03-02
申请号：US17409887
申请日：2021-08-24
Inventor： Tony Shuo Tao
Abstract: Examples include an apparatus for delivering a payload. The apparatus includes a first autonomous vehicle and a second autonomous vehicle that are configured to be coupled to an aircraft. The first autonomous vehicle includes a wing and a first propulsion system configured to deliver the second autonomous vehicle to a first destination. The second autonomous vehicle includes a payload and a second propulsion system configured to deliver the payload to a second destination.
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14.发明授权公开(公告)号：US11584512B2
公开(公告)日：2023-02-21
申请号：US16886878
申请日：2020-05-29
Inventor： Andrew Mark Heafitz , Jason Grzywna , Felipe Bohorquez , Anna Zolnikov , Jose Antonio L. Turalba
Abstract: Presented are weight distribution systems for aircraft center of gravity (CG) management, methods for making/operating such systems, and aircraft equipped with CG management systems. A method is presented for managing the CG of an aircraft. The aircraft includes first and second landing gears and an airframe that removably attaches thereto one or more payloads and/or hardware modules. The method includes supporting the aircraft on a support leg that operatively attaches to the airframe and, while supported on the support leg, determining if the aircraft pivots onto the first or second landing gear. If the aircraft pivots onto either landing gear, the method responsively identifies a new airframe position for the payload/hardware module that will shift the aircraft's CG to within a calibrated “acceptable” CG range; doing so should balance the aircraft on the support leg. The payload/hardware module is then relocated to the new airframe position.
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15.发明授权公开(公告)号：US11548636B2
公开(公告)日：2023-01-10
申请号：US16896377
申请日：2020-06-09
Inventor： Daniel W. Dichter
Abstract: Presented are passive-release, snap-fit coupling devices for attaching cargo to cargo suspension systems, methods for making/using such devices, and aircraft equipped with underbody suspension systems using passive-release, snap-fit coupling devices for securing payloads. An object mounting device is presented for securing an object, such as a cargo container, to a tether hook of a suspension system, such as an aircraft's payload suspension system. The object mounting device includes a base plate that affixes to the object, and a hook latch mounted onto the base plate. The hook latch includes a guide surface adjacent a catch cavity. The catch cavity releasably receives therein the tether hook. The guide surface is oriented at an oblique angle with respect to the base plate in order to slidably engage the tether hook, upon release from the catch cavity and under the force of gravity, to thereby eject the tether hook from the hook latch.
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16.发明申请公开(公告)号：US20230005378A1
公开(公告)日：2023-01-05
申请号：US17305284
申请日：2021-07-02
Inventor： Martin Kearney-Fischer
Abstract: A method is provided for detecting and avoiding conflict along a current route of a robot. The method includes accessing or determining trajectories of the robot and a nearby moving object forward in time from their respective current positions, and detecting a conflict from a comparison of the trajectories. The method includes selecting a maneuver to avoid the conflict, and outputting an indication of the maneuver for use in at least one of guidance, navigation or control of the robot to avoid the conflict. Selection of the maneuver includes determining a plurality of angles that describe the conflict such as those at which the robot and moving object observe one another, and/or an angle between their trajectories, and evaluating the plurality of angles to select the maneuver.
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公开(公告)号：US11535989B2
公开(公告)日：2022-12-27
申请号：US16524974
申请日：2019-07-29
Applicant: Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation
Inventor： Shekhar Mahadev Sarpotdar , Yahia A. Ismail
Abstract: A vertiport for an aircraft. The vertiport includes a landing platform that includes a landing surface and a plurality of primary through-openings, wherein the landing platform at least partially defines a primary chamber subjacent to the landing platform, the primary chambering having a primary chamber volume, and wherein the plurality of primary through-openings are in fluid communication with the primary chamber. The disclosed vertiport further includes an air moving unit positioned to withdraw air from the primary chamber.
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公开(公告)号：US20220284823A1
公开(公告)日：2022-09-08
申请号：US17457614
申请日：2021-12-03
Inventor： Francisco A. Navarro Félix , Zarrin Chua , Alfredo Giuliano , Martin Kearney-Fischer , Tim Moser , Christopher John Devine , Jakob Widauer
Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for operating air vehicles. Missions for the air vehicles are grouped into categories based on durations of the missions. The missions within the categories are clustered into subsets of the missions that can be concurrently performed to meet a set of mission performance criteria. The subsets of the missions are assigned to a set of air vehicle supervisors.
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19.发明申请公开(公告)号：US20220212804A1
公开(公告)日：2022-07-07
申请号：US17409700
申请日：2021-08-23
Inventor： Shekhar Sarpotdar
Abstract: Presented are passive temperature control systems for thermal management of electrical components, methods for making/using such thermal management systems, and aircraft equipped with smart-material activated temperature control systems for passive cooling of battery modules. A thermal management system is presented for passively cooling an electrical component stored inside a module housing. The thermal management system includes a cooling chamber that movably attaches adjacent a module housing that contains an electrical component, such as a rechargeable battery module. The cooling chamber contains a sublimable cooling agent, such as dry ice. A biasing member biases the cooling chamber away from the module housing. A smart material actuator is attached to and interposed between the cooling chamber and module housing. The smart material actuator extracts thermal energy from the module housing and, once heated to a phase transformation temperature, contracts and thereby pulls the cooling chamber into contact with the module housing.
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公开(公告)号：US20220197265A1
公开(公告)日：2022-06-23
申请号：US17643286
申请日：2021-12-08
Applicant: Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation
IPC: G05B19/418
Abstract: A production utilization planner (PUP) core for a manufacturing cell has a simulation manager configured to simulate the processing of workpieces arranged in a workpiece order, by performing the steps of: creating an instance of a simulation controller and an instance of a software model of the manufacturing cell, determining a next timed action to be performed by state machines, incrementing the simulation to the next timed action, updating the software model and the simulation controller each time a state machine performs a timed action, and repeating the steps of determining the next timed action, incrementing the simulation, and updating the software model and the simulation controller, until all of the workpieces have been processed. The simulation manager is configured to output a simulated completion time for processing the workpiece order.
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