Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Unmanned aerial vehicle drag augmentation by reverse propeller rotation
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Application No.: US14810386Application Date: 2015-07-27
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Publication No.: US10558225B2Publication Date: 2020-02-11
- Inventor: Martyn Cowley , Matthew Todd Keennon
- Applicant: AeroVironment, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Simi Valley
- Assignee: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.
- Current Assignee: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Simi Valley
- Agency: Brooks Acordia IP Law, PC
- Agent Pejman Yedidsion; Eric Aagaard
- Main IPC: B64C11/08
- IPC: B64C11/08 ; G05D1/06 ; B64C11/00 ; B64C11/04 ; B64C39/02

Abstract:
An air vehicle configured to augment effective drag to change the rate of descent of the air vehicle in flight via propeller shaft rotation direction reversal, i.e., thrust reversal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160147232A1 UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE DRAG AUGMENTATION BY REVERSE PROPELLER ROTATION Public/Granted day:2016-05-26
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