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公开(公告)号：US20240109658A1
公开(公告)日：2024-04-04
申请号：US18536837
申请日：2023-12-12
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Robert Roy Champagne, JR. , Gur Kimchi , Louis Leroi LeGrand, III , Nicholas Hampel Roberts , Ricky Dean Welsh
CPC classification number: B64C39/024 , B64C39/02 , G05D1/0858 , B64U10/10
Abstract: This disclosure describes an aerial vehicle, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”), which includes a plurality of propulsion mechanisms that enable the aerial vehicle to move independently in any of six degrees of freedom (surge, sway, heave, roll, pitch, and yaw).
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公开(公告)号：US10526070B2
公开(公告)日：2020-01-07
申请号：US15194473
申请日：2016-06-27
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Brian C. Beckman , John Raymond Brodie , Vedran Coralic , Taylor David Grenier , Gur Kimchi , Dominic Timothy Shiosaki , Ricky Dean Welsh , Richard Philip Whitlock
IPC: B64C11/48 , B64C11/00 , B64C39/02 , B64C11/28 , B64C11/30 , B64C27/80 , B64C3/14 , B64C3/46 , B64C3/54
Abstract: Sounds are generated by an aerial vehicle during operation. For example, the motors and propellers of an aerial vehicle generate sounds during operation. Systems, methods, and apparatus may actively adjust the position and/or configuration of one or more propeller blades of a propulsion mechanism to generate different sounds and/or lifting forces from the propulsion mechanism.
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公开(公告)号：US10518880B2
公开(公告)日：2019-12-31
申请号：US15435121
申请日：2017-02-16
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Gur Kimchi , Louis LeRoi LeGrand, III , Dominic Timothy Shiosaki , Ricky Dean Welsh
Abstract: Described is an apparatus and method of an aerial vehicle, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) that can operate in either a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) orientation or a horizontal flight orientation. The aerial vehicle includes a plurality of propulsion mechanisms that enable the aerial vehicle to move in any of the six degrees of freedom (surge, sway, heave, pitch, yaw, and roll) when in the VTOL orientation. The aerial vehicle also includes a ring wing that surrounds the propulsion mechanisms and provides lift to the aerial vehicle when the aerial vehicle is operating in the horizontal flight orientation.
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公开(公告)号：US10377483B2
公开(公告)日：2019-08-13
申请号：US15384899
申请日：2016-12-20
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Robert Roy Champagne, Jr. , Gur Kimchi , Louis LeRoi LeGrand, III , Nicholas Hampel Roberts , Ricky Dean Welsh
Abstract: This disclosure describes an aerial vehicle, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”), which includes a plurality of maneuverability propulsion mechanisms that enable the aerial vehicle to move in any of the six degrees of freedom (surge, sway, heave, pitch, yaw, and roll). The aerial vehicle may also include a lifting propulsion mechanism that operates to generate a force sufficient to maintain the aerial vehicle at an altitude.
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公开(公告)号：US10373104B2
公开(公告)日：2019-08-06
申请号：US15134821
申请日：2016-04-21
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Daniel Buchmueller , Jack Erdozain , Gur Kimchi , Brandon William Porter , Ricky Dean Welsh
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.
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公开(公告)号：US20190217511A1
公开(公告)日：2019-07-18
申请号：US15871521
申请日：2018-01-15
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Steven McGinnis , Prescott Gee Glynn , Kader Chellabi , Adrian Timothy Wallace , Ricky Dean Welsh
CPC classification number: B29C44/583 , B29C33/485 , B29C33/505 , B29C44/355 , B29C44/42 , B29D99/0025 , B29L2031/3085
Abstract: Lightweight and strong components may be manufactured using self-skinning foam material compositions by the processes described herein. One or more mandrels may be inserted into a molding tool, and a self-skinning foam material composition may be injected into the molding tool. After closing the molding tool, the self-skinning foam material composition may expand and cure to form a component, and one or more skins may be formed on exterior and/or interior surfaces of the component. For example, an external skin may be formed on an exterior surface of the component in contact with surfaces of the molding tool, and one or more internal skins may be formed on one or more interior surfaces of negative space spars of the component in contact with surfaces of the one or more mandrels.
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公开(公告)号：US20190118944A1
公开(公告)日：2019-04-25
申请号：US15789192
申请日：2017-10-20
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Gur Kimchi , Louis LeRoi LeGrand, III , Ricky Dean Welsh
Abstract: Systems and methods to form distributed and reconfigurable aerial vehicle configurations are described. An aerial vehicle configuration may include a plurality of aerial vehicles that are connected to a payload via respective tethers in order to complete a task, e.g., delivery of the payload to a location. The plurality of aerial vehicles selected as part of the aerial vehicle configuration may be of various types and may form a particular initial configuration. During operation, the aerial vehicle configuration may be modified based on changes to various operating parameters associated with aerial vehicles, the aerial vehicle configuration, the task, and/or the environment. The modifications may include changing positions, altitudes, and/or orientations of aerial vehicles with respect to each other and/or the payload, releasing aerial vehicles from the configuration, or adding new aerial vehicles to the configuration.
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公开(公告)号：US10096255B1
公开(公告)日：2018-10-09
申请号：US15440533
申请日：2017-02-23
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Jon Lewis Lindskog , Daniel Buchmueller , Samuel Park , Louis LeRoi LeGrand, III , Ricky Dean Welsh , Fabian Hensel , Christopher Aden Maynor , Ishwarya Ananthabhotla , Scott Michael Wilcox
Abstract: This disclosure describes an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) and system that may perform one or more techniques for protecting objects from damage resulting from an unintended or uncontrolled impact by a UAV. As described herein, various implementations utilize a damage avoidance system that detects a risk of damage to an object caused by an impact from a UAV that has lost control and takes steps to reduce or eliminate that risk. For example, the damage avoidance system may detect that the UAV has lost power and/or is falling at a rapid rate of descent such that, upon impact, there is a risk of damage to an object with which the UAV may collide. Upon detecting the risk of damage and prior to impact, the damage avoidance system activates a damage avoidance system having one or more protection elements that work in concert to reduce or prevent damage to the object upon impact by the UAV.
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公开(公告)号：US20180229839A1
公开(公告)日：2018-08-16
申请号：US15435121
申请日：2017-02-16
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Gur Kimchi , Louis LeRoi LeGrand, III , Dominic Timothy Shiosaki , Ricky Dean Welsh
Abstract: Described is an apparatus and method of an aerial vehicle, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) that can operate in either a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) orientation or a horizontal flight orientation. The aerial vehicle includes a plurality of propulsion mechanisms that enable the aerial vehicle to move in any of the six degrees of freedom (surge, sway, heave, pitch, yaw, and roll) when in the VTOL orientation. The aerial vehicle also includes a ring wing that surrounds the propulsion mechanisms and provides lift to the aerial vehicle when the aerial vehicle is operating in the horizontal flight orientation.
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公开(公告)号：US20180099745A1
公开(公告)日：2018-04-12
申请号：US15849374
申请日：2017-12-20
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Ricky Dean Welsh , Gur Kimchi
CPC classification number: B64C39/024 , A63H27/12 , B64C2201/027 , B64C2201/042 , B64C2201/108
Abstract: This disclosure describes a configuration of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that includes a frame that provides both structural support for the UAV and protection for foreign objects that may come into contact with the UAV. The UAV may have any number of lifting motors. For example, the UAV may include four lifting motors (also known as a quad-copter), eight lifting motors (octo-copter), etc. Likewise, to improve the efficiency of horizontal flight, the UAV may also include one or more pushing motor and propeller assemblies that are oriented at approximately ninety degrees to one or more of the lifting motors. When the UAV is moving horizontally, the pushing motor(s) may be engaged and the pushing propeller(s) will aid in the horizontal propulsion of the UAV.
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