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公开(公告)号：US20170174318A1
公开(公告)日：2017-06-22
申请号：US14975249
申请日：2015-12-18
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Brian C. Beckman , Gur Kimchi , Allan Ko
CPC classification number: B64C11/18 , B64C27/463 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/024 , B64C2201/027 , B64C2201/108 , B64C2201/128
Abstract: Sounds are generated by an aerial vehicle during operation. For example, the motors and propellers of an aerial vehicle generate sounds during operation. Disclosed are systems, methods, and apparatus for actively adjusting the position of one or more propeller blade treatments of a propeller blade of an aerial vehicle during operation of the aerial vehicle. For example, the propeller blade may have one or more propeller blade treatments that may be adjusted between two or more positions. Based on the position of the propeller blade treatments, the airflow over the propeller is altered, thereby altering the sound generated by the propeller when rotating. By altering the propeller blade treatments on multiple propeller blades of the aerial vehicle, the different sounds generated by the different propeller blades may effectively cancel, reduce, and/or otherwise alter the total sound generated by the aerial vehicle.
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公开(公告)号：US09676477B1
公开(公告)日：2017-06-13
申请号：US14467716
申请日：2014-08-25
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Gur Kimchi , Daniel Buchmueller , Brian C. Beckman , Amir Navot
CPC classification number: B64D31/06 , B64C1/30 , B64C27/00 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/027 , B64C2201/108 , B64C2201/128 , B64C2201/141 , B64C2201/20 , G05D1/0858
Abstract: This disclosure describes an unmanned aerial vehicle that may be configured during flight to optimize for agility or efficiency.
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公开(公告)号：US09573684B2
公开(公告)日：2017-02-21
申请号：US14502707
申请日：2014-09-30
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Gur Kimchi , Daniel Buchmueller , Scott A. Green , Brian C. Beckman , Scott Isaacs , Amir Navot , Fabian Hensel , Avi Bar-Zeev , Severan Sylvain Jean-Michel Rault
CPC classification number: G08G5/0069 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/027 , B64C2201/042 , B64C2201/128 , B64D1/12 , G01C21/20 , G05D1/00 , G05D1/0088 , G06Q10/083 , G06Q30/0641
Abstract: This disclosure describes an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) configured to autonomously deliver items of inventory to various destinations. The UAV may receive inventory information and a destination location and autonomously retrieve the inventory from a location within a materials handling facility, compute a route from the materials handling facility to a destination and travel to the destination to deliver the inventory.
Abstract translation: 本公开描述了一种无人驾驶飞行器（“UAV”），被配置为自动地向多个目的地递送库存物品。 无人机可以接收库存信息和目的地位置，并自动从材料处理设施中的位置检索库存，计算从材料处理设施到目的地的路线，并前往目的地传送库存。
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公开(公告)号：US20150277440A1
公开(公告)日：2015-10-01
申请号：US14225161
申请日：2014-03-25
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Gur Kimchi , Scott Isaacs , Amir Navot , Brian C. Beckman , Frederik Schaffalitzky , Scott A. Green
CPC classification number: G01S17/08 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/027 , B64C2201/042 , B64C2201/108 , B64C2201/128 , B64C2201/141 , G01S7/4817 , G01S13/08 , G01S15/08 , G01S17/42 , G01S17/87 , G01S17/933 , G05D1/102 , G08G5/0008 , G08G5/0013 , G08G5/0021 , G08G5/0052 , G08G5/0069 , G08G5/0078 , G08G5/0086 , G08G5/045
Abstract: This disclosure describes an automated mobile vehicle that includes one or more distance determining elements configured to detect the presence of objects and to cause the automated mobile vehicle to alter its path to avoid the object. For example, a distance determining element may be incorporated into one or more of the motors of the automated mobile vehicle and configured to determine a distance to an object. Based on the determined distance, a path of the automated mobile vehicle may be altered.
Abstract translation: 本公开描述了一种自动移动车辆，其包括一个或多个距离确定元件，其被配置为检测物体的存在并使自动移动车辆改变其路径以避免物体。 例如，距离确定元件可以被结合到自动移动车辆的一个或多个电动机中并且被配置为确定到物体的距离。 基于所确定的距离，可以改变自动移动车辆的路径。
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公开(公告)号：US20210309346A1
公开(公告)日：2021-10-07
申请号：US17351037
申请日：2021-06-17
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Howard Lee Huddleston, JR. , Brian C. Beckman , Allan Ko
Abstract: Aerial vehicles may be operated with discrete sets of propellers, which may be selected for a specific purpose or on a specific basis. The discrete sets of propellers may be operated separately or in tandem with one another, and at varying power levels. For example, a set of propellers may be selected to optimize the thrust, lift, maneuverability or efficiency of an aerial vehicle based on a position or other operational characteristic of the aerial vehicle, or an environmental condition encountered by the aerial vehicle. At least one of the propellers may be statically or dynamically imbalanced, such that the propeller emits a predetermined sound during operation. A balanced propeller may be specifically modified to cause the aerial vehicle to emit the predetermined sound by changing one or more parameters of the balanced propeller and causing the balanced propeller to be statically or dynamically imbalanced.
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公开(公告)号：US10822077B1
公开(公告)日：2020-11-03
申请号：US16222973
申请日：2018-12-17
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Brian C. Beckman , Allan Ko
Abstract: An aerial vehicle may be equipped with propellers having reconfigurable geometries. Such propellers may have blade tips or other features that may be adjusted or reconfigured while the aerial vehicle is operating, on any basis. Propellers having reconfigurable blade tips joined to blade roots may cause the blade tips to be aligned with the blade roots, or substantially perpendicular to the blade roots, e.g., in order to counter adverse effects of tip vortices, or at any intervening angle. The propellers may be reconfigured at predetermined times during operation of an aerial vehicle, or upon sensing one or more operational characteristics or environmental conditions, as may be desired or required.
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公开(公告)号：US10762797B2
公开(公告)日：2020-09-01
申请号：US15726330
申请日：2017-10-05
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Amir Navot , Gur Kimchi , Brian C. Beckman , Frederik Schaffalitzky , Daniel Buchmueller , Robert John Anderson
Abstract: This disclosure describes an automated aerial vehicle that includes one or more object detection elements configured to detect the presence of objects and an avoidance determining element configured to cause the automated aerial vehicle to automatically determine and execute an avoidance maneuver to avoid the objects. For example, an object may be detected and an avoidance maneuver determined based on a position of the object and an object vector representative of a direction and a magnitude of velocity of the object.
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公开(公告)号：US10526070B2
公开(公告)日：2020-01-07
申请号：US15194473
申请日：2016-06-27
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Brian C. Beckman , John Raymond Brodie , Vedran Coralic , Taylor David Grenier , Gur Kimchi , Dominic Timothy Shiosaki , Ricky Dean Welsh , Richard Philip Whitlock
IPC: B64C11/48 , B64C11/00 , B64C39/02 , B64C11/28 , B64C11/30 , B64C27/80 , B64C3/14 , B64C3/46 , B64C3/54
Abstract: Sounds are generated by an aerial vehicle during operation. For example, the motors and propellers of an aerial vehicle generate sounds during operation. Systems, methods, and apparatus may actively adjust the position and/or configuration of one or more propeller blades of a propulsion mechanism to generate different sounds and/or lifting forces from the propulsion mechanism.
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99.发明申请公开(公告)号：US20190337534A1
公开(公告)日：2019-11-07
申请号：US16515681
申请日：2019-07-18
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Brian C. Beckman , Nicholas Bjone
IPC: B61D3/16 , B61L27/00 , B61L15/00 , B25J11/00 , G06Q30/02 , B65G1/137 , B65G1/04 , B61L25/02 , G06Q10/08
Abstract: Intermodal vehicles may be loaded with items and an aerial vehicle, and directed to travel to areas where demand for the items is known or anticipated. The intermodal vehicles may be coupled to locomotives, container ships, road tractors or other vehicles, and equipped with systems for loading one or more items onto the aerial vehicle, and for launching or retrieving the aerial vehicle while the intermodal vehicles are in motion. The areas where the demand is known or anticipated may be identified on any basis, including but not limited to past histories of purchases or deliveries to such areas, or events that are scheduled to occur in such areas. Additionally, intermodal vehicles may be loaded with replacement parts and/or inspection equipment, and configured to conduct repairs, servicing operations or inspections on aerial vehicles within the intermodal vehicles, while the intermodal vehicles are in motion.
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公开(公告)号：US10370098B1
公开(公告)日：2019-08-06
申请号：US14975308
申请日：2015-12-18
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Brian C. Beckman , Gur Kimchi
Abstract: Sounds are generated by an aerial vehicle during operation. For example, the motors and propellers of an aerial vehicle generate sounds during operation. Disclosed is an adjustable propeller that may alter shapes during operation or rotation of the propeller such that the sound generated by the rotation of the propeller changes. The propeller may include multiple sections and joints that allow movement of the sections in any direction. Likewise, the propeller may include one or more sound flaps that may be opened or closed to further alter the sound generated as the propeller rotates.
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