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公开(公告)号：US20230039018A1
公开(公告)日：2023-02-09
申请号：US17397686
申请日：2021-08-09
Inventor： Rolf Rysdyk , Kelsey Nichole Underwood , Dustin Honea Volentine
Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles including wing capture devices and related methods are disclosed. An example unmanned aerial vehicle includes a fuselage and a wing assembly, the wing assembly including a shoulder coupled to the fuselage, the shoulder including a joint, the joint distal to the fuselage, a wing coupled to the joint, and a hook, the hook coupled to the shoulder, the hook including a groove to receive a cable to arrest flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle.
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公开(公告)号：US11492141B2
公开(公告)日：2022-11-08
申请号：US16614632
申请日：2018-05-25
Applicant: INSITU, INC.
Inventor： Bradley Louis Schrick
Abstract: Systems and methods for capturing unmanned aircraft and controlling post-recovery motion of the aircraft are disclosed herein. An aircraft system in accordance with one embodiment of the technology, for example, includes a base assembly and an aircraft capture member attached to and extending from the base assembly. The aircraft capture member has a distal region positioned to intercept an unmanned aircraft in flight. The aircraft capture member comprises an elongated telescoping rod including a plurality of discrete segments having a telescoping arrangement relative to each other. The aircraft capture member is configured to elongate or pay out from a first initial length to a second extended length greater than the first length after an unmanned aircraft intercepts and engages the distal region of the aircraft capture member.
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公开(公告)号：US20220332434A1
公开(公告)日：2022-10-20
申请号：US17586225
申请日：2022-01-27
Inventor： Harold A. Brown , Danny Ray Nalley
Abstract: Adapter assemblies for aircraft and launchers for deploying aircraft are described herein. An example adapter assembly for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a first adapter to be removeably coupled to a first side of a fuselage of the UAV. The first adapter includes first and second posts to interface with a carriage of a launcher. The adapter assembly also includes second adapter to be removeably coupled to a second side of the fuselage of the UAV. The second adapter includes third and fourth posts to interface with the carriage of the launcher.
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公开(公告)号：US11447246B2
公开(公告)日：2022-09-20
申请号：US16090162
申请日：2018-05-07
Applicant: Insitu, Inc.
Inventor： Peter Josef Kunz , David Wayne Goodrich , Jacob Scott Allen , Matthew Jacob Bartow
Abstract: An aircraft includes a fuselage module and at least two vertical lift rotor modules supporting at least four rotor assemblies. Each rotor assembly is supported by a rotor boom having at least one boom free end and a boom mounting portion. Each rotor assembly has at least one vertical lift rotor mounted on the boom free end. Each boom mounting portion is removably couplable to the fuselage module. The vertical lift rotor modules are configured such that when coupled to the fuselage module, a pair of the rotor assemblies are located on each of laterally opposite sides of the fuselage module, and the rotor assemblies of each pair are respectively located forward of and aft of a wing center portion. A pair of wings are configured to be removably couplable to the wing center portion. The aircraft includes a forward thrust module removably couplable to the fuselage body.
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45.发明授权公开(公告)号：US11338911B2
公开(公告)日：2022-05-24
申请号：US16134458
申请日：2018-09-18
Applicant: Insitu, Inc.
Inventor： John R. Wong
Abstract: Example magnetic recovery systems and magnetic docking mechanisms for fixed-wing UAVs are disclosed herein. An example capture mechanism for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a first member attached to a capture vehicle, the first member having a first portion having a first shape and a magnetic portion; and a second member attached to the UAV, the second member having a second portion having a second shape, wherein the first member and the second member mutually self-align responsive to incidental contact of the first shape and the second shape, and the magnetic portion is to capture the second member.
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公开(公告)号：US20220119090A1
公开(公告)日：2022-04-21
申请号：US17467885
申请日：2021-09-07
Inventor： Greg Minarik , Danny R. Nalley , Harold A. Brown , Joel M. Reiter
Abstract: A modular unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) connection system is disclosed. A disclosed example connection system for use with a UAV includes a tab extending from one of an aerodynamic body or a frame, and a slot to receive the tab, the slot positioned on another of the aerodynamic body or the frame, the tab to be inserted into the slot in a direction that is opposite to a direction of travel of the UAV.
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公开(公告)号：US20210396269A1
公开(公告)日：2021-12-23
申请号：US16909027
申请日：2020-06-23
Inventor： Chad Nichols Blundell
Abstract: Retention washers include a washer body having a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The washer body has a perimeter having one or more lobes, and the retention washer further includes a multi-point star-shaped hole extending through the washer body from the first side to the second side. The retention washer is configured to maintain an installation torque of an installed nut when the retention washer is positioned such that the hole circumscribes the nut. Systems for retaining a propeller assembly on a shaft may include a nut installed on a bolt, and a retention washer positioned such that the hole of the retention washer circumscribes the nut, thereby limiting rotation of the nut with respect to the bolt and retaining the nut on the bolt. The system may include a circular array of nuts and bolts, each nut having a respective retention washer positioned thereon.
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公开(公告)号：US20210371126A1
公开(公告)日：2021-12-02
申请号：US17445067
申请日：2021-08-13
Inventor： Brian D. Dennis , Jacob Allen , Jeff Alldredge
Abstract: Launch and/or recovery for unmanned aircraft and/or other payloads, including via parachute-assist, and associated systems and methods are disclosed. An example unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system includes a lift device, a parachute, and a capture line. The lift device includes a canister. The parachute is stowed in and deployable from the canister. The capture line is attached to the parachute and to a line control device. The capture line is configured to be engaged by a capture device located at an end of a wing of a UAV.
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公开(公告)号：US11101557B2
公开(公告)日：2021-08-24
申请号：US16859648
申请日：2020-04-27
Applicant: Insitu, Inc.
Inventor： Torsten Mack , Peter Kunz
IPC: H01Q3/02 , H01Q3/00 , H01Q1/28 , H04B7/185 , H01Q1/12 , H01Q3/04 , H01Q3/08 , H01Q19/30 , H01Q1/40
Abstract: A mechanically steered, horizontally polarized, directional antennae for aerial vehicles, such as UAVs. The antenna system can include a planar substrate with a horizontally polarized antenna embedded therein. A rotation member, on one end, can be attached to the planar substrate, and can extend from an external surface of the aerial vehicle. An actuator can be coupled to the rotation member to rotate the rotation member. A communication controller of the aerial vehicle can control the actuator to beam horizontally polarized radiofrequency (RF) waves to a target receiver or receive a wave front from a target transmitter.
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公开(公告)号：US20200283145A1
公开(公告)日：2020-09-10
申请号：US16665547
申请日：2019-10-28
Inventor： Daniel Lewis Shaw
IPC: B64C39/02
Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) recovery is disclosed. An example apparatus to recover an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a support rail to support a cable. The apparatus also includes a pivot arm to rotate about a pivot, where the cable is suspended between the support rail and the pivot arm, and where the pivot arm is rotated to a first orientation when the UAV contacts the cable and rotated to a second orientation when the UAV is brought to a stop. The apparatus also includes at least one of a friction device or a damper operatively coupled to the cable to resist motion of the cable during rotation of the pivot arm from the first orientation to the second orientation.
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