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公开(公告)号：US20160196755A1
公开(公告)日：2016-07-07
申请号：US14315952
申请日：2014-06-26
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Amir Navot , Brian C. Beckman , Daniel Buchmueller , Gur Kimchi , Fabian Hensel , Scott A. Green , Brandon William Porter , Severan Sylvain Jean-Michel Rault
CPC classification number: G08G5/0086 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/108 , B64C2201/141 , B64D45/04 , G01S2007/4975 , G05D1/0088 , G05D1/0676 , G05D1/0858 , G07C5/0808
Abstract: This disclosure describes a system and method for operating an automated aerial vehicle wherein influences of a ground effect may be utilized for sensing the ground or other surfaces. In various implementations, an operating parameter of the automated aerial vehicle may be monitored to determine when a ground effect is influencing the parameter, which correspondingly indicates a proximity to a surface (e.g., the ground). In various implementations, the ground effect based sensing techniques may be utilized for determining a proximity to the ground, as a backup for a primary sensor system, for determining if a landing location is uneven, etc.
Abstract translation: 本公开描述了用于操作自动航空器的系统和方法，其中地面效应的影响可以用于感测地面或其它表面。 在各种实施方案中，可以监测自动航空器的操作参数，以确定地面效应何时影响参数，其相应地指示与表面（例如地面）的接近。 在各种实施方案中，基于地面效应的感测技术可以用于确定接近地面，作为主传感器系统的备用，用于确定着陆位置是否不均匀等。
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公开(公告)号：US09348333B1
公开(公告)日：2016-05-24
申请号：US14563647
申请日：2014-12-08
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Daniel Buchmueller , Jack Erdozain, Jr. , Gur Kimchi , Brandon William Porter , Ricky Dean Welsh
IPC: G05D1/00 , G05D3/00 , G06F7/00 , G06F17/00 , B64D1/08 , B64F5/00 , B64D31/00 , B64D45/00 , B64C39/02 , G06Q10/08
CPC classification number: G06Q10/08355 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/128 , B64C2201/146 , B64C2211/00 , B64D1/08 , B64D31/00 , B64D45/00 , B64F5/10 , G05D1/0011 , G06Q10/083 , G08G5/0069
Abstract: Aspects of modular airborne delivery are described. When a shipping container is provided to an airborne carrier for delivery, the airborne carrier may assess weather across a route for airborne delivery of the shipping container, evaluate an approach to drop the shipping container at a delivery zone, and calculate a remaining amount of time until a target delivery time, for example. The airborne carrier may then select components to assemble a modular unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based on those or other factors, and assemble the UAV using the selected components. The modular UAV may then be directed to deliver the shipping container according to instructions from the airborne carrier. According to the concepts described herein, flexibility and other advantages may be achieved using modular UAVs for airborne delivery.
Abstract translation: 描述模块化机载交付的方面。 当运输集装箱提供给空中运输工具进行运输时，机载运输公司可以评估运输集装箱航空运输路线上的天气，评估运送集装箱在运送区域的方法，并计算剩余的时间量 直到目标交付时间为止。 然后，机载运营商可以基于这些或其他因素选择组件来组装模块化无人驾驶飞行器（UAV），并使用所选择的部件组装UAV。 然后，可以根据来自机载运营商的指示，将模块化UAV引导到运送集装箱。 根据本文描述的概念，可以使用用于机载传送的模块化UAV实现灵活性和其他优点。
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13.发明授权Single blade rotor system for use in a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft 有权用于垂直起飞和着陆（VTOL）飞机的单叶片转子系统公开(公告)号：US09334049B1
公开(公告)日：2016-05-10
申请号：US14559529
申请日：2014-12-03
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Louis LeRoi LeGrand, III , Ricky Dean Welsh , Walker Chamberlain Robb , Robert Roy Champagne, Jr. , Daniel Buchmueller , Joshua White Traube , Gur Kimchi
CPC classification number: B64C27/30 , B64C13/00 , B64C27/26 , B64C27/32 , B64C27/473 , B64C29/0025 , B64D27/24 , G05D1/00 , G05D1/08 , G05D1/0858
Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a single blade propeller and systems, devices, and techniques pertaining to assisting in critical stages of flight (e.g., takeoff, landing, emergency situations, etc.) in vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft. The single blade propeller may be incorporated into fixed and rotary wing VTOL aircraft as part of a first propulsion system. The first propulsion system may include one or more single blade propellers driven by electric motors, combustion engines, and/or hybrid engines. Each of the single blade propellers may include a lift-producing blade and a counterweight opposite the lift-producing blade. As each of the single blade propellers spins, it may produce lift in a direction approximately perpendicular to the horizon to effect vertical flight.
Abstract translation: 本公开涉及一种涉及在垂直起飞和着陆（VTOL）飞机中辅助关键飞行阶段（例如起飞，着陆，紧急情况等）的单个桨叶螺旋桨和系统，装置和技术。 作为第一推进系统的一部分，单桨螺旋桨可以并入固定和旋转翼型垂直起降飞机中。 第一推进系统可以包括由电动机，燃烧发动机和/或混合发动机驱动的一个或多个单个叶片螺旋桨。 单个叶片螺旋桨中的每一个可以包括提升产生叶片和与提升产生叶片相对的配重。 当每个单刀片螺旋桨旋转时，它可能在大致垂直于地平线的方向上产生升力以实现垂直飞行。
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公开(公告)号：US20150379876A1
公开(公告)日：2015-12-31
申请号：US14315213
申请日：2014-06-25
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Amir Navot , Gur Kimchi , Brian C. Beckman , Frederik Schaffalitzky , Daniel Buchmueller , Robert John Anderson
IPC: G08G5/04
CPC classification number: G08G5/045 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/027 , B64C2201/042 , B64C2201/108 , B64C2201/128 , B64C2201/145 , B64D45/00 , G05D1/101 , G05D1/102 , G08G5/0021 , G08G5/0069 , G08G5/0078
Abstract: This disclosure describes an automated aerial vehicle that includes one or more object detection elements configured to detect the presence of objects and an avoidance determining element configured to cause the automated aerial vehicle to automatically determine and execute an avoidance maneuver to avoid the objects. For example, an object may be detected and an avoidance maneuver determined based on a position of the object and an object vector representative of a direction and a magnitude of velocity of the object.
Abstract translation: 本公开描述了一种自动航空器，其包括配置成检测物体的存在的一个或多个物体检测元件和被配置为使自动航空器自动确定并执行回避机动以避免物体的回避确定元件。 例如，可以检测对象并且基于对象的位置和表示对象的速度的方向和大小的对象向量来确定回避机动。
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公开(公告)号：US11195422B2
公开(公告)日：2021-12-07
申请号：US16522211
申请日：2019-07-25
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Gur Kimchi , Daniel Buchmueller , Scott A. Green , Brian C. Beckman , Scott Isaacs , Amir Navot , Fabian Hensel , Avi Bar-Zeev , Severan Sylvain Jean-Michel Rault
Abstract: This disclosure describes an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) configured to autonomously deliver items of inventory to various destinations. The UAV may receive inventory information and a destination location and autonomously retrieve the inventory from a location within a materials handling facility, compute a route from the materials handling facility to a destination and travel to the destination to deliver the inventory.
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16.发明授权公开(公告)号：US10984663B2
公开(公告)日：2021-04-20
申请号：US16556062
申请日：2019-08-29
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Amir Navot , Brian C. Beckman , Daniel Buchmueller , Gur Kimchi , Fabian Hensel , Scott A. Green , Brandon William Porter , Severan Sylvain Jean-Michel Rault
Abstract: A system and method for operating an automated aerial vehicle are provided wherein influences of ground effects (e.g., which may increase the effective thrusts of propellers by interfering with the respective airflows) are utilized for sensing the ground or other surfaces. In various implementations, operating parameters of the automated aerial vehicle are monitored to determine when ground effects are influencing the parameters associated with the propellers, which correspondingly indicate proximities to a surface (e.g., the ground). Such ground effect sensing techniques may be utilized as a backup to other sensors (e.g., which may be determined to not be functioning properly and/or may be otherwise inhibited due factors such as to rain, snow, fog, reflections, bright sunlight, etc.).
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公开(公告)号：US10858103B1
公开(公告)日：2020-12-08
申请号：US16101311
申请日：2018-08-10
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Daniel Buchmueller , Louis LeRoi LeGrand, III , Lowell Timothy Neal , Scott Michael Wilcox
Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can deliver a package to a delivery destination. Packages delivered by a UAV may be lowered towards the ground while the UAV continues to fly rather than the UAV landing on the ground and releasing the package. Packages may sway during lowering as a result of wind or movement of the UAV. By modulating a rate of descent of a package, a package sway may mitigated. The lowering mechanism includes wrapping a tether in various directions around the package such that the package rotates in a first and second direction as the package descends. Additionally, a rip-strip lowering mechanism that separates under tension to lower the package and a rappel mechanism that slides the package down a tether may be used. Accordingly, the tether can control a descent of the package assembly.
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公开(公告)号：US10543918B1
公开(公告)日：2020-01-28
申请号：US15618044
申请日：2017-06-08
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Gur Kimchi , Fabian Thomas Hensel , Scott A. Green , Daniel Buchmueller
IPC: B64C39/02
Abstract: This disclosure describes a configuration of a multi-propeller aerial vehicle (MPAV). The components of the MPAV are designed for easy manufacture, assembly, configuration and replacement. Likewise, the configuration of the MPAV is designed for increased flight duration.
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公开(公告)号：US10450065B2
公开(公告)日：2019-10-22
申请号：US15595556
申请日：2017-05-15
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Daniel Buchmueller , Louis LeRoi LeGrand, III , Jack Erdozain, Jr. , Scarlett Elizabeth Koller , Eric Alexander Riehl , Trevor Barr Walker
Abstract: Stabilized delivery using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is described. In one embodiment, the UAV includes a flight controller configured to control a flight path of the UAV, a winch mechanism secured to an underside of the UAV, a platform tethered to and extendable from the winch mechanism, and a ballast system configured to stabilize the platform. The winch mechanism may be relied upon to drop an item for delivery without landing the UAV. The winch mechanism can include a first winch mechanism secured to the UAV at a first orientation and a second winch mechanism secured to the UAV at a second orientation. Because the winch mechanism may give rise to certain design and operating considerations, various active and passive flight and/or ballast control systems are described. These systems maintain an orientation of the UAV, the platform, and/or the item during one or more stages of airborne drop delivery.
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公开(公告)号：US10259591B1
公开(公告)日：2019-04-16
申请号：US15851545
申请日：2017-12-21
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Gur Kimchi , Daniel Buchmueller , Brian C. Beckman , Amir Navot
Abstract: This disclosure describes an unmanned aerial vehicle that may be configured during flight to optimize for agility or efficiency.
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