公开(公告)号：US20230386345A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-30

申请号：US17824546

申请日：2022-05-25

Applicant: BETA AIR, LLC

Inventor： Herman Wiegman ,  Thomas Henck ,  Sarah Overfield ,  Richard Donnelly

IPC: G08G5/00 ,  B64C39/02

CPC classification number: G08G5/003 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/042 ,  B64C2201/088

Abstract: In an aspect an apparatus for determining a most limiting parameter of an electric aircraft is presented. An apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. A memory contains instructions configuring at least a processor to receive aircraft data from a sensing device. A sensing device is configured to measure a parameter of an electric aircraft and generate aircraft data. At least a processor is configured to determine a most limiting parameter of an electric aircraft as a function of aircraft data. At least a processor is configured to communicate a most limiting parameter to a pilot indicator in communication with the at least a processor and memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. A pilot indicator is configured to display a most limiting parameter to a user.

公开(公告)号：US20230350433A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-02

申请号：US17983062

申请日：2022-11-08

Applicant: Snap Inc.

Inventor： Mathias Andreas Hintermann ,  Justin Huang ,  Russell Douglas Patton

IPC: G05D1/10 ,  G06V40/16 ,  G06V20/17 ,  G06V10/75 ,  B64D47/08 ,  B64C39/02

CPC classification number: G05D1/102 ,  G06V40/161 ,  G06V20/17 ,  G06V10/751 ,  B64D47/08 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/088 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64C2201/146

Abstract: Systems, computer readable medium and methods for unlocking an autonomous drone are disclosed. Example methods include receiving an indication of a selection of a fly instruction, capturing an image using an image capturing device of the autonomous drone, processing the image to determine whether a face is present in the image, and if the face is present in the image, taking off. The face has to be within a predetermined distance of the autonomous drone. This ensures that the face is likely from the person that selected the fly instruction and ensures that the autonomous drone is far enough away from the face that the autonomous drone will not crash into the face on take-off. In some examples, the autonomous drone determines whether the autonomous drone is sitting on a hand before taking off. The autonomous drone uses a position of the face to determine an initial flight plan.

公开(公告)号：US11724801B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-15

申请号：US16178892

申请日：2018-11-02

Applicant: Textron Systems Corporation

Inventor： Sean Marshall Baity ,  David D. Billingsley ,  Brad S. Galloway ,  Richard M. Chapman

IPC: B64C29/00 ,  B64C39/10 ,  B64C1/26 ,  B64C11/44 ,  B64C11/46 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64D27/24 ,  G05D1/08

CPC classification number: B64C29/0033 ,  B64C39/10 ,  B64C1/26 ,  B64C11/44 ,  B64C11/46 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2039/105 ,  B64C2201/021 ,  B64C2201/024 ,  B64C2201/028 ,  B64C2201/042 ,  B64C2201/088 ,  B64C2201/104 ,  B64C2201/108 ,  B64C2201/165 ,  B64C2211/00 ,  B64D27/24 ,  G05D1/0858

Abstract: An aircraft includes an airframe having a fixed-wing section and a plurality of articulated electric rotors, at least some of which are variable-position rotors having different operating configurations based on rotor position. A first operating configuration is a vertical-flight configuration in which the rotors generate primarily vertical thrust for vertical flight, and a second operating configuration is a horizontal-flight configuration in which the rotors generate primarily horizontal thrust for horizontal fixed-wing flight. Control circuitry independently controls rotor thrust and rotor orientation of the variable-position rotors to provide thrust-vectoring maneuvering. The fixed-wing section may employ removable wing panels so the aircraft can be deployed both in fixed-wing and rotorcraft configurations for different missions.

公开(公告)号：US20230159164A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-25

申请号：US18058262

申请日：2022-11-22

Applicant: Autoflight (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Yu Tian

IPC: B64C39/02

CPC classification number: B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/02 ,  B64C2201/082 ,  B64C2201/088 ,  B64C2201/206

Abstract: A combined vertical takeoff and landing UAV having a large vertical takeoff and landing UAV, a connecting device, and a small vertical takeoff and landing UAV. The connecting device having a clamping component and an adsorption component. The clamping component includes a clamping part, and a clamping groove is arranged on the clamping part. The clamping component having a snap-fitting part, and a snap-fitting groove is arranged on the snap-fitting part. The clamping groove and the snap-fitting groove are correspondingly set. A first holding space is arranged on the clamping part, and a second holding space is arranged on the snap-fitting part. The adsorption component comprises a first magnetic element located in the first holding space, and the adsorption component also comprises a second magnetic element, which is located in the second holding space.

公开(公告)号：US20180312253A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-01

申请号：US15571606

申请日：2017-05-24

Applicant: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.

Inventor： Kai Zhao ,  Yu Gu ,  Hongli Ding ,  Yifei Zhang ,  Ying Zhang

IPC: B64C39/02 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G05D1/10 ,  B64C37/00 ,  G04B47/00

CPC classification number: B64C39/024 ,  B64C1/30 ,  B64C27/08 ,  B64C37/00 ,  B64C39/028 ,  B64C2201/024 ,  B64C2201/027 ,  B64C2201/042 ,  B64C2201/088 ,  B64C2201/108 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64C2201/146 ,  B64C2201/165 ,  B64C2201/20 ,  G04B47/00 ,  G05D1/0016 ,  G05D1/101 ,  G05D1/102

Abstract: The present application discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle. The umanned aerial vehicle includes a support having a plurality of receiving slots; a plurality of arms attached to the support and a plurality of propellers respectively attached to the plurality of arms. Each of the plurality of receiving slots is configured to receive one of the plurality of arms and one of the plurality of propellers attached to the one of the plurality of arms.

公开(公告)号：US20180312241A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-01

申请号：US15568950

申请日：2016-04-25

Applicant: Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation

Inventor： Mark R. Alber

IPC: B64C7/00 ,  B64C29/02 ,  B64C25/10 ,  B64C25/36 ,  B64D29/02

CPC classification number: B64C25/10 ,  B64C25/36 ,  B64C29/02 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/088 ,  B64C2201/108

Abstract: A fairing for a landing gear wheel assembly on a tail sitter aircraft is disclosed, which includes a fairing housing defining a longitudinal axis, and at least one pair of laterally opposed aerodynamic tail surfaces extending radially outward from the fairing housing for added flight stability.

公开(公告)号：US20180290741A1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-11

申请号：US15974473

申请日：2018-05-08

Applicant: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.

Inventor： Dana J. Taylor ,  Phillip T. Tokumaru ,  Bart Dean Hibbs ,  William Martin Parks ,  David Wayne Ganzer ,  Joseph Frederick King

IPC: B64C29/00 ,  G05D1/08 ,  B64C27/26 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64C11/32 ,  B64C29/02 ,  B64C27/605 ,  B64D27/24 ,  B64C27/54

CPC classification number: B64C29/0025 ,  B64C11/32 ,  B64C27/26 ,  B64C27/54 ,  B64C27/605 ,  B64C29/00 ,  B64C29/02 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/021 ,  B64C2201/042 ,  B64C2201/088 ,  B64C2201/104 ,  B64C2201/108 ,  B64C2201/165 ,  B64D27/24 ,  G05D1/0858

Abstract: A flight control apparatus for fixed-wing aircraft includes a first port wing and first starboard wing, a first port swash plate coupled between a first port rotor and first port electric motor, the first port electric motor coupled to the first port wing, and a first starboard swash plate coupled between a first starboard rotor and first starboard electric motor, the first starboard electric motor coupled to the first starboard wing.

公开(公告)号：US20180281942A1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-04

申请号：US15544698

申请日：2015-11-19

Applicant: Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation

Inventor： Mark W. Scott ,  Colin Kemater Bunting

IPC: B64C29/02 ,  B64C25/04 ,  B64D31/06

CPC classification number: B64C29/02 ,  B64C25/04 ,  B64C2201/028 ,  B64C2201/048 ,  B64C2201/088 ,  B64D31/06

Abstract: A flying wing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is provided and includes an empennageless-fuselage from which foldable wings extend outwardly, an empennageless-nacelle supported on each of the wings and a rigid rotor propeller disposed on each empennageless-nacelle, each of the propellers being drivable to rotate about only a single rotational axis defined along a longitudinal axis of the corresponding empennageless-nacelle and being fully cyclically controllable.

公开(公告)号：US20180165973A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-14

申请号：US15585656

申请日：2017-05-03

Applicant: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY

Inventor： Chang Woo CHUN

IPC: G08G5/00 ,  G08G5/02 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G05D1/10 ,  G05D1/06 ,  B64C39/02

CPC classification number: G08G5/0013 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/088 ,  B64C2201/108 ,  B64C2201/128 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  B64C2201/165 ,  B64C2201/18 ,  B64C2201/208 ,  G05D1/0005 ,  G05D1/0653 ,  G05D1/0669 ,  G05D1/0684 ,  G05D1/102 ,  G08G1/20 ,  G08G5/0034 ,  G08G5/0039 ,  G08G5/0069 ,  G08G5/0082 ,  G08G5/025

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system including: a control center configured to monitor a movement of an unmanned aerial vehicle through a communication with the unmanned aerial vehicle; and the unmanned aerial vehicle configured to transmit and receive information regarding a movement through the communication with the control center, and configured to land on a vehicle moving in a route corresponding to a driving route of a plurality of driving routes of the unmanned aerial vehicle and move together with the vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US09977435B2

公开(公告)日：2018-05-22

申请号：US15040985

申请日：2016-02-10

Applicant: AeroVironment, Inc.

Inventor： Christopher Eugene Fisher ,  Jason Sidharthadev Mukherjee ,  William Arden Lott ,  Eric James Aagaard

IPC: G05D1/10 ,  B64C29/02 ,  B64D47/08 ,  G05D1/00 ,  B60L11/18 ,  B64D1/02 ,  G08G5/00 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64F1/22 ,  G06T11/60

CPC classification number: G05D1/102 ,  B60L11/1824 ,  B60L2200/10 ,  B60L2230/22 ,  B64C29/02 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/021 ,  B64C2201/042 ,  B64C2201/088 ,  B64C2201/104 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  B64C2201/165 ,  B64C2201/201 ,  B64D1/02 ,  B64D47/08 ,  B64F1/222 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  G06T11/60 ,  G08G5/0034 ,  G08G5/0039 ,  G08G5/0069 ,  G08G5/0091

Abstract: A method of migrating unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations between geographic survey areas, including: uploading a first plurality of flight missions into a first UAV pod; deploying the UAV pod; autonomously launching the UAV from the UAV pod a plurality of times to perform the first plurality of flight missions; providing first survey data from the UAV to the UAV pod; autonomously migrating the UAV from the first UAV pod to a second UAV pod; receiving a second plurality of flight missions in a second UAV pod; providing the UAV with one of the second plurality of flight missions from the second UAV pod; autonomously launching the UAV from the second UAV pod a plurality of times to perform the second plurality of flight missions; and providing a second survey data from the UAV to the second UAV pod; where the autonomous migrating of the UAV to accomplish the first and second survey data happens autonomously and without active human intervention.