公开(公告)号：US20220402604A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-22

申请号：US17354739

申请日：2021-06-22

申请人： Santh Sathya

发明人： Santh Sathya

IPC分类号： B64C37/00 ,  B64C29/00 ,  B60F5/02

摘要： The modular autonomous air and road mobility (AARM) vehicle with Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) capability provides combined air and road mobility solution.
AARM is clean energy powered, modular vehicle, which can be undocked and redocked into road module and air module, providing uninterrupted autonomous mobility between air and road. In addition, the modular design enables: Easy navigation through highly populated areas without the need to accommodate fixed wing aircraft on urban roads. Reduced energy consumption and noise levels in urban roads by not having to carry the air propulsion system into urban areas. The road and air modules dock with each other through a sensor guided docking and load carrying mechanism (SGDMS), allowing connectivity, command and control. The vehicle can be scaled appropriately to serve: personal mobility, shared car, air taxis, regional air transport, cargo and shipping, defense missions, medical evacuations and air ambulances.

公开(公告)号：US20220339983A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-27

申请号：US17728760

申请日：2022-04-25

申请人： Aigen, Inc.

发明人： Richard Wurden

IPC分类号： B60F5/02 ,  B62D57/032 ,  B64C25/66 ,  B64C29/00 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64D9/00 ,  B60L8/00 ,  G05D1/10

摘要： Walking VTOL vehicles and related systems and methods are disclosed. A representative system can include one or more vertical thrust propulsion systems for providing vertical thrust for the vehicle, one or more horizontal thrust propulsion systems for providing horizontal thrust for the vehicle, and leg elements that are rotatable between a first configuration in which each leg element extends downwardly and a second configuration different from the first configuration. A representative method of operating a vehicle includes using vertical thrust to raise the vehicle upward, rotating a leg element forward, lowering the vehicle, and then rotating the leg element rearward to propel the vehicle forward.

公开(公告)号：US11434611B2

公开(公告)日：2022-09-06

申请号：US17534581

申请日：2021-11-24

申请人： Ahmad Abu Elreich

发明人： Ahmad Abu Elreich

IPC分类号： E01C1/00 ,  B60K6/44 ,  E01C1/04 ,  G08G7/00 ,  B60F5/02 ,  B60K6/442

摘要： A transportation system for hybrid vehicles. The transportation system may include pillars and a raised pathway. Further, the pillars configured to be vertically mounted on the ground. Further, a first pillar of the pillars may include a first lower portion and a first upper portion. Further, a second pillar of the pillars may include a second lower portion and a second upper portion. Further, the raised pathway supported by the pillars. Further, a raised pathway of the raised pathway may include a first end and a second end. Further, the first end may be supported by the first upper portion of the first pillar. Further, the second end may be supported by the second upper portion of the second pillar. Further, the raised pathway may include a raised transportation surface configured to facilitate transportation of a hybrid vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US11413918B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-16

申请号：US16485740

申请日：2018-02-12

申请人： PAL-V IP B.V.

发明人： Michael Alwin William Stekelenburg ,  Hans Joore ,  Christiaan Cornelius Klok ,  Louis Petrus Valentijn Marie Van Rijn ,  Kevin Ricardo Van Der Beek ,  Erik Van De Ruit

IPC分类号： B60F5/02 ,  B64C11/28 ,  B64C37/00 ,  B64D35/08 ,  B63H5/07 ,  B64C29/00

摘要： A fly/drive vehicle has a road riding condition and a flying condition, and is easily convertible between the road riding condition and the flying condition. The vehicle includes a body with a passenger compartment and a drive compartment, at least one steered wheel and at least one driven wheel, and a propulsion propeller. The propulsion propeller has a central propeller base projecting outside a longitudinal end of the vehicle, and two propeller blades hinged to the central base. In the flying condition, the propeller blades are in an operative spread-out position, in which they extend substantially in line with each other substantially perpendicular to the propeller's rotation axis. In the road riding condition, the propeller blades are hinged about substantially vertical hinge axes to be directed more parallel to the longitudinal direction.

公开(公告)号：US20220242182A1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-04

申请号：US17612860

申请日：2020-05-20

申请人： Narenda H. Karadia

发明人： Narendra H Karadia

IPC分类号： B60F5/02 ,  B64C37/00 ,  B64C3/56 ,  B64C1/00

摘要： The present invention relates to a multi-modal vehicle operable in a first mode as a fixed wing aircraft and reconfigurable to be operable in a second mode as a ground vehicle. The vehicle comprises first and second ends configured to operate in a first direction, with the first end leading the second end, in the first mode and in a second direction, with the second end leading the first end, in normal operation in the second mode.

公开(公告)号：US20220227477A1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-21

申请号：US17614065

申请日：2020-05-20

申请人： Friedrich GRIMM

发明人： Friedrich GRIMM

IPC分类号： B64C3/56 ,  B64C39/06 ,  B60F5/02

摘要： An aircraft has an empennage and a folding system. The folding system has aerofoils and node bodies which are connected to one another. The aerofoils have at least two nose-side aerofoils and at least two tail-side aerofoils, of which one of the nose-side aerofoils and one of the tail-side aerofoils are port-side aerofoils and one of the nose-side aerofoils and one of the tail-side aerofoils are starboard-side aerofoils. The node bodies have fuselage-side node bodies and outer node bodies. The nose-side aerofoils and tail-side aerofoils are each articulated at a first end to an associated fuselage-side node body, and the nose-side aerofoils and tail-side aerofoils are each articulated at a second end to an outer node body. The tail-side node bodies are displaceable at least partially along an associated translation axis. The folding system functions as the empennage during flight.

公开(公告)号：US11358511B1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-14

申请号：US16747382

申请日：2020-01-20

申请人： Amazon Technologies, Inc.

发明人： Wicksell Metellus ,  Kristopher William Bell ,  Julius Chen ,  Wesley Scott Lauka ,  Ryan Scott Russell

IPC分类号： B60P3/025 ,  A47B96/00 ,  B60F5/02 ,  A47B81/00 ,  G08G9/00 ,  A47B49/00 ,  G06Q10/08

摘要： The present disclosure is directed toward a storage compartment vehicle (“SCV”) for use in the transport of items for delivery to one or more customers and/or retrieval of items from one or more customers. The SCV may include a plurality of storage compartments that are individually accessible, each of which can contain one or more items. The SCV may navigate to a delivery location and customers may retrieve ordered items from the storage compartments of the SCV. Likewise, customers may return items into storage compartments of the SCV.

公开(公告)号：US11333032B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-17

申请号：US16225951

申请日：2018-12-19

申请人： Hyalta Aeronautics, Inc.

发明人： Scott R. Kempshall

IPC分类号： F01D15/00 ,  F01D25/24 ,  B64C25/66 ,  B64C25/34 ,  B64C25/40 ,  B64C37/00 ,  B60F5/02 ,  F01D7/00 ,  B60F3/00 ,  F04D29/32 ,  F04D29/52 ,  B64C39/02

摘要： A convertible ducted fan engine having a shroud, a drive shaft connected to a mechanical fan, and a rotational drive motor configured to rotate the mechanical fan. An embodiment includes a linear drive motor configured to translate the drive shaft and mechanical fan in a direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of the shroud. The convertible ducted fan engine includes a fluid-propulsion configuration in which the mechanical fan rotates freely with respect to the shroud to produce thrust through fluid flow, and a drive-wheel configuration in which the shroud rotates about the rotational axis.

公开(公告)号：US11230363B2

公开(公告)日：2022-01-25

申请号：US16610047

申请日：2018-05-10

申请人： Stefan Klein

发明人： Stefan Klein

IPC分类号： B64C3/56 ,  B60F5/02 ,  B64C35/00 ,  B64C37/00

摘要： A system and method for transformation of motor transportation vehicle for ground and air transport, motor transportation vehicle are disclosed. The motor transportation vehicle consists of the body with the cabin, the front and rear axles, an actuation system, wings, covers, and tail including the support and the tail surfaces, and for transformation of the motor transportation vehicle for air transport to the motor transportation vehicle for ground transport the following transformation steps are preformed: minimization of the wings footprint area by turning the wings around their horizontal axes, which axes run through the halves or near the halves of the wing widths; opening two body covers; turning the folded wings into the vertical position; turning the folded wings from the vertical position towards rear position around the horizontal axis perpendicular to the length of the motor transportation vehicle, followed by closing the body covers; tilting the support cover/covers out; retracting the support/supports of the tail surfaces under the opened support covers; closing the support cover/covers.

公开(公告)号：US20210237849A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-05

申请号：US17234251

申请日：2021-04-19

申请人： TUDOR CROSSFELT, LLP

发明人： Samuel Hall BOUSFIELD

IPC分类号： B64C3/56 ,  B60F5/02 ,  B64C1/26 ,  B64C37/00

摘要： Some embodiments described herein relate to a wing that is coupled to a body of a vehicle and configured to rotate forward from a deployed configuration, in which the wing extends from the body to a retracted configuration in which a tip portion of the wing is closer to a nose portion of the body than a root portion of the wing is to the nose portion. A hinged beam having a first portion pivotably coupled to a second portion is configured to transmit loads associated with flight from the wing to the body.