Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Scissoring propeller with centripetally actuated centering lever lock
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Application No.: US16843498Application Date: 2020-04-08
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Publication No.: US11608159B2Publication Date: 2023-03-21
- Inventor: Oliver Daniel Ensslin
- Applicant: Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company
- Applicant Address: US VA Manassas
- Assignee: Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee: Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee Address: US VA Manassas
- Agency: Gates & Cooper LLP
- Main IPC: B64C11/28
- IPC: B64C11/28 ; B64C29/00
Abstract:
A propeller assembly including a shaft having a rotational axis; a plurality of propellers connected to the shaft; means for deploying the plurality of propellers using a centrifugal force generated from a rotation of the shaft, so as to provide vertical thrust during a vertical take-off and landing of the aircraft; and means for restoring the propellers into a stowed configuration.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210316851A1 SCISSORING PROPELLER WITH CENTRIPETALLY ACTUATED CENTERING LEVER LOCK Public/Granted day:2021-10-14
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