Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Small unmanned aerial vehicle (SUAV) shipboard recovery system
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Application No.: US14698770Application Date: 2015-04-28
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Publication No.: US09669947B2Publication Date: 2017-06-06
- Inventor: John Peter Zwaan , Robert James Johnston , Cris James Cornell , Philip Martin Finn , Glenn Arnold Blevins , David Wayne Ganzer
- 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, P.C.
- Agent Eric Aagaard
- Main IPC: B64F1/02
- IPC: B64F1/02 ; B63B17/00 ; B64C39/02
Abstract:
Systems, devices, and methods for impacting, by a small unmanned aerial vehicle (SUAV), a net having at least three sides; and converting the kinetic energy of the SUAV into at least one of: elastic potential energy of one or more tensioned elastic cords connected to at least one corner of the net, gravitational potential energy of a frame member connected to at least one corner of the net, rotational kinetic energy of the frame member connected to at least one corner of the net, and elastic potential energy of the frame member connected to at least one corner of the net.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160016675A1 SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (SUAV) SHIPBOARD RECOVERY SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2016-01-21
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