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公开(公告)号:US11655031B2
公开(公告)日:2023-05-23
申请号:US17664754
申请日:2022-05-24
申请人: ELROY AIR, INC.
发明人: Terik Weekes , Isaiah Jones , Sean Belardo , Clint Cope , Colin Owen , David Merrill
CPC分类号: B64D1/22 , B64C17/02 , B64C29/0008 , B64C39/024 , B64U10/13 , B64U2101/60
摘要: An autonomous cargo container retrieval and delivery system locates a select cargo container and maneuvers an unmanned aerial vehicle proximate to the container for retrieval. The vehicle positions itself to engage the cargo container using a grasping mechanism, and, responsive to engaging the cargo container, retracts the cargo container toward the vehicle. As the cargo container is retracted toward the vehicle, weight sensors within the retrieval mechanism sense the weight and the weight distribution of the cargo container, and, can modify the cargo container's location on the vehicle to optimize vehicle flight operations or replace the container on the ground and alert the operator that the cargo container is too heavy or has an improper weight distribution. Upon mating the cargo container with the vehicle, a coupling mechanism latches or secures the cargo container to the vehicle for further flight and/or ground operations.
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公开(公告)号:US11628933B2
公开(公告)日:2023-04-18
申请号:US16172470
申请日:2018-10-26
申请人: ELROY AIR, INC.
发明人: Terik Weekes , Sean Belardo , Clint Cope , Colin Owen , David Merrill
摘要: A compound aircraft embodies an array of rotors for vertical flight positioned on support booms and wing elements for cruise flight coupled to a central fuselage housing avionics and a pusher propeller for forward propulsion. The aircraft accommodates a cargo-carrying container with mating of the surfaces between container and fuselage and latching mechanisms for attaching and detaching the container and vehicle.
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公开(公告)号:US20230034316A1
公开(公告)日:2023-02-02
申请号:US17815828
申请日:2022-07-28
申请人: ELROY AIR, INC.
发明人: Terik Weekes
摘要: A reliable and redundant hybrid VTOL UAV power architecture includes two or more channels of high voltage AC power generated from at least one generator, the generator coupled to one or more liquid fueled turbine engines. Two or more high voltage domain modules, one for each channel, receive the high voltage AC power and, using a rectifier change it to high voltage DC power. A power distribution unit accepts the newly converted channel of high voltage DC power and thereafter bidirectionally provides it to a domain battery and to a primary set of motors. Two or more high voltage busses, each coupled separately to one of the two or more high voltage domain modules, each redundantly transport converted channel of high voltage DC power to, in one embodiment, primary sets of motors forming a primary high power domain bus for these select motors.
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公开(公告)号:US20210039783A1
公开(公告)日:2021-02-11
申请号:US16932371
申请日:2020-07-17
申请人: ELROY AIR, INC.
发明人: Terik Weekes , Bernard Michini , Sean Belardo , David Merrill , Clint Cope , Colin Owen , Isaiah Jones , Matthew Michini
摘要: The invention relates, generally, to systems and methods for optimizing the performance of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) by optimizing the UAV's drivetrain, extending the UAV's battery life; by monitoring and reporting on payload imbalance or overweight conditions; and by improving the aerodynamics and streamlining of certain drag-producing elements.
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公开(公告)号:US20190127056A1
公开(公告)日:2019-05-02
申请号:US16172470
申请日:2018-10-26
申请人: ELROY AIR, INC.
发明人: Terik WEEKES , Sean BELARDO , Clint COPE , Colin OWEN , David MERRILL
摘要: A compound aircraft embodies an array of rotors for vertical flight positioned on support booms and wing elements for cruise flight coupled to a central fuselage housing avionics and a pusher propeller for forward propulsion. The aircraft accommodates a cargo-carrying container with mating of the surfaces between container and fuselage and latching mechanisms for attaching and detaching the container and vehicle.
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公开(公告)号:US12091229B2
公开(公告)日:2024-09-17
申请号:US17480298
申请日:2021-09-21
申请人: ELROY AIR, INC.
发明人: Terik Weekes , Sean Belardo , Clint Cope , Colin Owen , Isaiah Jones , Shane Hills , David Merrill
摘要: A modular aerial cargo aerodynamic encasement and a method for modular aviation cargo transport is provided. The aviation cargo aerodynamic encasement comprises a platform having a planar upper surface configured to accept cargo and a lower surface. The lower surface includes two or more ground supports displacing a portion of the platform from contact with a supporting surface. The platform includes two or more load transfer structures. The aviation cargo aerodynamic encasement further comprises a fairing configured to detachably couple to the platform, wherein the fairing, when coupled to the platform, forms an aerodynamic encasement, and wherein the aerodynamic encasement is detachably mountable to an aircraft by the two or more load transfer structures.
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公开(公告)号:US11884391B2
公开(公告)日:2024-01-30
申请号:US17070037
申请日:2020-10-14
申请人: ELROY AIR, INC.
发明人: Colin Owen , Bernard Michini , David Merrill , Clint Cope , Sean Belardo , Isaiah Jones
CPC分类号: B64C39/024 , B64C7/00 , B64C2211/00
摘要: A mission pod configured to be carried by a UAV or other aerial vehicle and accompanying systems and methods to allow the unattended accomplishment of diverse mission types is described. The mission pod having means for communication between the pod and UAV, mechanisms for removably attaching the pod to, and detaching the pod from, the UAV without the intervention of ground crew, mechanisms for facilitating power, fuel, and/or data transfer between the pod and UAV, means for securing various mission components within the pod, and pod configurations supporting various sensing modalities and other mission requirements.
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公开(公告)号:US11787525B2
公开(公告)日:2023-10-17
申请号:US17070170
申请日:2020-10-14
申请人: ELROY AIR, INC.
发明人: Terik Weekes , Sean Belardo , David Merrill , Clint Cope , Shane Hills
CPC分类号: B64C1/30 , B64C3/56 , B64C29/0025 , B64C39/024 , B64U80/70
摘要: A reconfigurable hybrid Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) vehicle includes a turntable bearing coupling a conventional wing to a fuselage. The fuselage, designed to couple to and release a cargo pod from its undercarriage, is configured to accept a high wing juncture such that the wing can rotate from a flight configuration to a transport configuration. The transport configuration aligns the wing with the fuselage sufficient to enable the hybrid VTOL vehicle to fit within a standard intermodal container or transport aircraft.
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公开(公告)号:USD966148S1
公开(公告)日:2022-10-11
申请号:US29769855
申请日:2021-02-08
申请人: Elroy Air, Inc.
设计人: David Merrill , Terik Weekes , Colin Owen , Clinton Cope , Isaiah Jones , Shane Hills , William Peters
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公开(公告)号:USD966147S1
公开(公告)日:2022-10-11
申请号:US29769854
申请日:2021-02-08
申请人: Elroy Air, Inc.
设计人: David Merrill , Terik Weekes , Colin Owen , Clinton Cope , Isaiah Jones , Shane Hills , William Peters
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