Invention Grant
- Patent Title: UAV for continuous ultrasound testing (UT) scans
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Application No.: US17445367Application Date: 2021-08-18
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Publication No.: US11885769B2Publication Date: 2024-01-30
- Inventor: Fadl Abdellatif , Jeff S. Shamma , Sultan Shaqaq , Abdullah Arab , Abdullah A. Alkhder , Sahejad Patel
- Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company , KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Applicant Address: SA Dhahran
- Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY,KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY,KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee Address: SA Dhahran; SA Thuwal
- Agency: Leason Ellis LLP
- Main IPC: G01N29/22
- IPC: G01N29/22 ; B60F5/02 ; G05D1/10 ; G01N29/04 ; G01N29/265 ; B64U10/70 ; B64U50/20 ; F16D48/00 ; B64U10/13 ; B64U101/26

Abstract:
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has a flight-only mode with a motor only rotating propellers and not rotating on-board wheels to configure the UAV to fly away from a surface of a structure, and a crawling-only mode in which the UAV is configured to crawl on the surface due to the motor only rotating the wheels while not rotating the propellers. In the flight-only mode, a clutch disengages a motor from the wheels so that the motor only engages the propellers to fly to lift from the surface. In the crawling-only mode, the clutch disengages the motor from the propellers so that the motor only engages the wheels to move the UAV on the surface.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230058202A1 UAV FOR CONTINUOUS ULTRASOUND TESTING (UT) SCANS Public/Granted day:2023-02-23
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