Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Air vehicle flight mechanism and control method
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Application No.: US15923878Application Date: 2018-03-16
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Publication No.: US10266258B2Publication Date: 2019-04-23
- Inventor: Matthew Todd Keennon , Karl Robert Klingebiel , Alexander Andryukov , Bart Dean Hibbs , John Peter Zwaan
- Applicant: AeroVironment, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Monrovia
- Assignee: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.
- Current Assignee: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Monrovia
- Agency: Brooks Acordia IP Law, PC
- Agent Pejman Yedidsion; Eric Aagaard
- Main IPC: B64C33/02
- IPC: B64C33/02 ; B64C19/00

Abstract:
Heavier-than-air, aircraft having flapping wings, e.g., ornithopters, where angular orientation control is effected by variable differential sweep angles of deflection of the flappable wings in the course of sweep angles of travel and/or the control of variable wing membrane tension.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180208306A1 AIR VEHICLE FLIGHT MECHANISM AND CONTROL METHOD Public/Granted day:2018-07-26
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