公开(公告)号：US11518512B2

公开(公告)日：2022-12-06

申请号：US16778269

申请日：2020-01-31

Applicant: Textron Innovations Inc.

Inventor： Kirk Landon Groninga ,  Daniel Bryan Robertson ,  William Benjamin Johns

IPC: B64C39/02 ,  B64F3/02 ,  G01R31/08 ,  H02G1/02 ,  H04N7/18

Abstract: An exemplary unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mountable to a conductor of an aerial power transmission line system includes a body having a rotor system, a motivation system attached to the body to motivate the UAV along the conductor, a battery carried by the body and electrically connected to at least one of the rotor system and the motivation system, a monitoring tool mounted with the body and an inductive coil carried by the body and in electric connection with the battery, wherein the inductive coil is configured to harvest electricity from the aerial power transmission line system and charge the battery.

公开(公告)号：US11643206B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-09

申请号：US17902483

申请日：2022-09-02

Applicant: Textron Innovations Inc.

Inventor： Kirk Landon Groninga ,  Daniel Bryan Robertson ,  William Benjamin Johns

IPC: B64C39/02 ,  B64F3/02 ,  G01R31/08 ,  H02G1/02 ,  H04N7/18 ,  B64U30/20 ,  B64U50/34 ,  B64U101/30

CPC classification number: B64C39/024 ,  B64F3/02 ,  G01R31/085 ,  H02G1/02 ,  H04N7/18 ,  B64U30/20 ,  B64U50/34 ,  B64U2101/30

Abstract: An exemplary unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mountable to a conductor of an aerial power transmission line system includes a body having a rotor system, a motivation system attached to the body to motivate the UAV along the conductor, a battery carried by the body and electrically connected to at least one of the rotor system and the motivation system, a monitoring tool mounted with the body and an inductive coil carried by the body and in electric connection with the battery, wherein the inductive coil is configured to harvest electricity from the aerial power transmission line system and charge the battery.