Methods and Apparatus for Aerial Recovery of Flying Apparatus
    91.
    发明申请
    Methods and Apparatus for Aerial Recovery of Flying Apparatus 有权
    飞行器具空中恢复方法与装置

    公开(公告)号:US20120211588A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-08-23

    申请号:US13465220

    申请日:2012-05-07

    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided which may allow a first vehicle to recover a second air vehicle while both are moving. The first vehicle and the second air vehicle may be traveling at different velocities. An attachment member of the second air vehicle may attach to a recovery member of the first vehicle while the first vehicle and the second air vehicle are traveling at different velocities. The recovery member attached to the second air vehicle may move relative to and along an exterior surface of the first vehicle in a direction substantially parallel to a direction of travel of the first vehicle.

    Abstract translation: 提供了方法和系统,其可以允许第一车辆在移动时都恢复第二空中车辆。 第一车辆和第二空中车辆可以以不同的速度行驶。 当第一车辆和第二空中车辆以不同的速度行驶时,第二空中车辆的附接构件可以附接到第一车辆的回收构件。 附接到第二空气车辆的回收构件可以在与第一车辆的行进方向基本平行的方向上相对于第一车辆的外表面移动并沿其移动。

    Method and apparatus for retrieving a hovering aircraft
    92.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for retrieving a hovering aircraft 有权
    用于检索悬停飞机的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US08245968B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-08-21

    申请号:US13024843

    申请日:2011-02-10

    Abstract: For retrieval of a hovering aircraft, a cable, bar, or similar fixture is suspended in an approximately horizontal orientation across the retrieval area between two well-separated supports. The aircraft slowly flies into this fixture, which then slides along the aircraft in a direction approximately parallel with the aircraft's thrust line. This leads to the aircraft becoming fastened to the fixture by an interceptor or aircraft capturer, which in alternative embodiments are respectively on the aircraft or the fixture or both. Thrust is then reduced, and the aircraft comes to rest hanging from the fixture for subsequent removal. Retrieval is thus accomplished with simple and economical apparatus, light and unobtrusive elements on the aircraft, low risk of damage, and only moderate piloting accuracy.

    Abstract translation: 为了检索悬停的飞行器,电缆,杆或类似的固定装置悬挂在两个分离好的支撑件之间的取回区域的大致水平的方向上。 飞机慢慢地飞入这个固定装置,然后沿着与飞机的推力线大致平行的方向沿飞机滑动。 这导致飞行器通过拦截器或飞行器捕获器被固定到固定装置上,在替代实施例中飞行器或飞机捕获器分别在飞行器或固定装置上或两者上。 然后减小推力,飞机从固定装置上休息,以便随后拆卸。 因此,在飞机上使用简单经济的装置,轻便和不引人注意的元件来实现检索,损坏风险低,而且只有适度的驾驶准确性。

    Parallel Hybrid-Electric Propulsion Systems for Unmanned Aircraft
    93.
    发明申请
    Parallel Hybrid-Electric Propulsion Systems for Unmanned Aircraft 审中-公开
    无人机并联混合动力推进系统

    公开(公告)号:US20120209456A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-08-16

    申请号:US13396760

    申请日:2012-02-15

    Abstract: An unmanned air vehicle is provided, which includes an airframe and a parallel hybrid-electric propulsion system mounted on the airframe. The parallel hybrid-electric propulsion system includes an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. A hybrid controller is configured to control both the internal combustion engine and the electric motor. A propeller is connected to a mechanical link. The mechanical link couples the internal combustion engine and the electric motor to the propeller to drive the propeller. An alternate unmanned air vehicle includes a second propeller driven by the electric motor. In this alternate unmanned air vehicle, the internal combustion engine is decoupled from the electric motor.

    Abstract translation: 提供了一种无人驾驶飞行器,其包括安装在机身上的机身和并联混合动力推进系统。 并联混合动力推进系统包括内燃机和电动马达。 混合控制器被配置为控制内燃机和电动马达。 螺旋桨连接到机械连杆。 机械连杆将内燃机和电动马达连接到螺旋桨以驱动螺旋桨。 备用的无人驾驶飞行器包括由电动机驱动的第二螺旋桨。 在这种替代的无人驾驶飞行器中,内燃机与电动机分离。

    Parachute release device for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
    94.
    发明授权
    Parachute release device for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) 有权
    无人机(UAV)降落伞释放装置

    公开(公告)号:US08191831B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-06-05

    申请号:US11992188

    申请日:2005-11-30

    Applicant: Ronen Nadir

    Inventor: Ronen Nadir

    Abstract: The disclosure provides a parachute release device which may include a connecting element capable of connecting to an aircraft and to a parachute and a locking mechanism capable of releasing the connecting element from the aircraft upon being actuated by an actuator, wherein the parachute may be connected to the connecting element by a multiplicity of points, wherein the locking mechanism is adapted to inhibit a force from being applied to the actuator and wherein the device may be suitable for use in small weights aircrafts due to its small size and weight. The disclosure further provides a method for releasing a parachute from an aircraft, the method may include activating an actuator capable of releasing a locking mechanism, wherein the locking mechanism is adapted to release a connecting element from an aircraft upon being actuated, wherein the connecting element is adapted to connect a parachute and wherein the locking mechanism is adapted to inhibit a force from being applied to the actuator.

    Abstract translation: 本公开提供了一种降落伞释放装置,其可以包括能够连接到飞机和降落伞的连接元件,以及能够由致动器致动时能够从飞行器释放连接元件的锁定机构,其中降落伞可以连接到 所述连接元件由多个点组成,其中所述锁定机构适于阻止施加到所述致动器的力,并且其中所述装置由于其小的尺寸和重量而适合用于小型重量飞机。 本发明还提供了一种用于从飞行器释放降落伞的方法,所述方法可包括激活能够释放锁定机构的致动器,其中所述锁定机构适于在致动时从飞行器释放连接元件,其中所述连接元件 适于连接降落伞,并且其中所述锁定机构适于阻止施加在所述致动器上的力。

    Frangible fasteners for aircraft components and associated systems and methods
    95.
    发明授权
    Frangible fasteners for aircraft components and associated systems and methods 有权
    用于飞机部件和相关系统和方法的易碎紧固件

    公开(公告)号:US08136766B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-03-20

    申请号:US12024861

    申请日:2008-02-01

    Inventor: Brian D. Dennis

    Abstract: Frangible fasteners and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, for example, an unmanned aircraft can include a fuselage portion, a wing portion, and a winglet carried by the wing portion. The aircraft can also include at least one frangible fastener coupling the winglet to the wing portion. The fastener is coupled to only partially release the winglet from the wing portion when a force on the winglet exceeds a threshold value.

    Abstract translation: 本文公开了易碎紧固件及相关系统和方法。 在一个实施例中,例如,无人飞行器可以包括机身部分,翼部分和由翼部分承载的小翼。 飞机还可以包括将小翼片连接到机翼部分的至少一个易碎紧固件。 当小翼上的力超过阈值时,紧固件联接成仅从翼部分部分地释放小翼。

    MODULAR ARTICULATED-WING AIRCRAFT
    97.
    发明申请
    MODULAR ARTICULATED-WING AIRCRAFT 有权
    MODULAR ARTICULATED-WING飞机

    公开(公告)号:US20110144834A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-06-16

    申请号:US12805434

    申请日:2010-07-30

    Abstract: Systems and/or methods for forming a multiple-articulated flying system (skybase) having a high aspect ratio wing platform, operable to loiter over an area of interest at a high altitude are provided. In certain exemplary embodiments, autonomous modular flyers join together in a wingtip-to-wingtip manner. Such modular flyers may derive their power from insolation. The autonomous flyers may include sensors which operate individually, or collectively after a skybase is formed. The skybase preferably may be aggregated, disaggregated, and/or re-aggregated as called for by the prevailing conditions. Thus, it may be possible to provide a “forever-on-station” aircraft.

    Abstract translation: 提供了用于形成具有高纵横比翼平台的多关节飞行系统(天基)的系统和/或方法,其可操作以在高海拔地区的感兴趣区域上游荡。 在某些示例性实施例中,自主模块化飞行器以翼尖到翼尖的方式连接在一起。 这样的模块化飞行器可以从日晒中获得其功率。 自主传单可以包括单独操作的传感器,或者在形成天空基础之后集体运行。 天空基优选地可以按照主要条件的要求进行聚合,分解和/或再聚集。 因此,可能提供“永远在车”的飞机。

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RETRIEVING A HOVERING AIRCRAFT
    98.
    发明申请
    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RETRIEVING A HOVERING AIRCRAFT 有权
    检测飞机的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20110133024A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-06-09

    申请号:US13024843

    申请日:2011-02-10

    Abstract: For retrieval of a hovering aircraft, a cable, bar, or similar fixture is suspended in an approximately horizontal orientation across the retrieval area between two well-separated supports. The aircraft slowly flies into this fixture, which then slides along the aircraft in a direction approximately parallel with the aircraft's thrust line. This leads to the aircraft becoming fastened to the fixture by an interceptor or aircraft capturer, which in alternative embodiments are respectively on the aircraft or the fixture or both. Thrust is then reduced, and the aircraft comes to rest hanging from the fixture for subsequent removal. Retrieval is thus accomplished with simple and economical apparatus, light and unobtrusive elements on the aircraft, low risk of damage, and only moderate piloting accuracy.

    Abstract translation: 为了检索悬停的飞行器,电缆,杆或类似的固定装置悬挂在两个分离好的支撑件之间的取回区域的大致水平的方向上。 飞机慢慢地飞入这个固定装置,然后沿着与飞机的推力线大致平行的方向沿飞机滑动。 这导致飞行器通过拦截器或飞行器捕获器被固定到固定装置上,在替代实施例中飞行器或飞机捕获器分别在飞行器或固定装置上或两者上。 然后减小推力,飞机从固定装置上休息,以便随后拆卸。 因此,在飞机上使用简单经济的装置,轻便和不引人注意的元件来实现检索,损坏风险低,而且只有适度的驾驶准确性。

    Aircraft
    99.
    发明申请
    Aircraft 有权
    飞机

    公开(公告)号:US20110031354A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-02-10

    申请号:US12847004

    申请日:2010-07-30

    Abstract: An aircraft, particularly a solar powered, high altitude, long endurance, unmanned aerial vehicle, is equipped with a combination of canted down, raked back wing tips and trailing “tip tails” carried on booms from the tip regions of the mainplane. Each tip tail is positioned to be subject to the upwash field of the respective wing tip vortex, at least in the cruise condition of the aircraft. The wing tip form can achieve a reduction in induced drag and help to relieve wing root bending moment while the tip tails can act through their connections to the mainplane to provide torsional relief to the latter, particularly under lower incidence/higher speed conditions. In the higher incidence/lower speed cruise condition, however, the presence of the tip tails in the upwash fields of the wing tip vortices means that they can generate lift with a component in the forward direction of flight and hence contribute to the thrust requirements of the aircraft.

    Abstract translation: 飞机,特别是太阳能,高空,长寿命,无人驾驶飞行器,配备有从主板的尖端区域承载在吊杆上的倾斜下倾斜后翼翼尖和尾部“尖端尾”的组合。 至少在飞行器的巡航条件下,每个末梢尾部定位成受到相应的翼尖涡流的上洗液场的影响。 翼尖形式可以实现诱导阻力的减小,并且有助于减轻翼根弯曲力矩,同时尖端尾部可以通过它们与主平面的连接而起作用,以向后者提供扭转释放,特别是在较低的入射/更高速度条件下。 然而,在较高的发生率/较低速度的巡航条件下,翼尖涡流的上冲流场中尖端尾部的存在意味着它们可以在飞行方向上产生具有部件的升力,因此有助于推力要求 飞机。

    MODULAR ARTICULATED-WING AIRCRAFT
    100.
    发明申请
    MODULAR ARTICULATED-WING AIRCRAFT 有权
    MODULAR ARTICULATED-WING飞机

    公开(公告)号:US20100193625A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-08-05

    申请号:US11475085

    申请日:2006-06-27

    Abstract: Systems and/or methods for forming a multiple-articulated flying system (skybase) having a high aspect ratio wing platform, operable to loiter over an area of interest at a high altitude are provided. In certain exemplary embodiments, autonomous modular flyers join together in a wingtip-to-wingtip manner. Such modular flyers may derive their power from insolation. The autonomous flyers may include sensors which operate individually, or collectively after a skybase is formed. The skybase preferably may be aggregated, disaggregated, and/or re-aggregated as called for by the prevailing conditions. Thus, it may be possible to provide a “forever-on-station” aircraft.

    Abstract translation: 提供了用于形成具有高纵横比翼平台的多关节飞行系统(天基)的系统和/或方法,其可操作以在高海拔地区的感兴趣区域上游荡。 在某些示例性实施例中,自主模块化飞行器以翼尖到翼尖的方式连接在一起。 这样的模块化飞行器可以从日晒中获得其功率。 自主传单可以包括单独操作的传感器,或者在形成天空基础之后集体运行。 天空基优选地可以按照主要条件的要求进行聚合,分解和/或再聚集。 因此,可能提供“永远在车”的飞机。

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