Lift-generating device having axial fan(s), and heavier-than-air aircraft fitted with such a device

    公开(公告)号:US09694907B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-07-04

    申请号:US14904597

    申请日:2014-07-03

    Applicant: HUTCHINSON

    CPC classification number: B64C29/0025

    Abstract: The invention relates to a device which includes two longitudinal deflecting surfaces or two pluralities of longitudinal deflecting surfaces, which are symmetrical on either side of the plane formed by the roll and yaw axes of the device and substantially in line with the roll axis and parallel to same, an air flow generator including at least one axial fan suctioning ambient air by means of at least one propeller faired in a flow path and, downstream of said propeller, an air distributor-diffuser, consisting of two adjacent semi-distributors each defining a curved duct directing the air to an outlet opening and toward the longitudinal deflecting surface or plurality of longitudinal deflecting surfaces.

    VTOL aerodyne with supporting axial blower(s)

    公开(公告)号:US09902493B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-27

    申请号:US15550392

    申请日:2016-02-08

    Applicant: HUTCHINSON

    Abstract: Disclosed is an aerodyne including a supporting structure, to which are connected: at least one supporting axial blower, attached to the supporting structure; at least one main engine driving the supporting blower; at least three attitude blowers controlling roll and pitch, each attitude blower having an electrical motor and being attached, respectively, to one of the elongate arms that are distributed in a laterally, outwardly projecting manner around the supporting structure, to which each arm is connected by an inner end portion, the axis of rotation of each attitude blower being attached relative to the supporting structure, and all the attitude blowers being located outside the space centrally occupied by the supporting blower; at least one battery for supplying power to the electrical motors of the attitude blowers; a landing gear attached under the supporting structure; and a nacelle for holding the battery and a payload.

    Single-blade aircraft rotor
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    公开(公告)号:US11987347B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-21

    申请号:US17774285

    申请日:2020-11-04

    Abstract: A rotor for a rotary wing aircraft having a single blade with a longitudinal pitch axis and that is hinge mounted on the rotary shaft for rotating the rotor, the hinge being about an axis that is transversal relative to the rotary shaft, said rotary wing describing a cone when its pitch angle is not zero, the rotor possessing a balancing flyweight device for balancing the resultant of the horizontal component of the lift force and of the rotary drag force of the blade, the device being mounted to rotate with the rotary wing about its rotary shaft and, under the effect of the centrifugal force to which it is subjected while the rotary wing is rotating, generating a horizontal force that is applied to the rotary shaft of the motor and that opposes the above-mentioned resultant with a magnitude of that is a function of the position of the flyweight(s) of the balancing device relative to the rotary shaft of the rotor.

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