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公开(公告)号:US20240017827A1
公开(公告)日:2024-01-18
申请号:US17865078
申请日:2022-07-14
Applicant: Wing Aviation LLC
Inventor: Jesse Blake , Andre Prager , Evan Twyford , Ivan Qiu , Jasper Lewin
CPC classification number: B64D1/10 , B64C39/024 , B64D1/22 , B64C2201/128 , B64C2201/021
Abstract: A unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a fuselage including a top, a bottom, a cavity that forms a cargo bay between the top and the bottom, and a lower access opening in the bottom for lowering a payload from the cargo bay. A movable stage is coupled to the fuselage and adjustable between an upper position in which the stage is above the cargo bay and a lower position in which the stage is at the bottom of the fuselage, the stage including an opening extending through the stage. The UAV also includes a winch disposed in the fuselage and a tether coupled to the winch. The winch is configured to be secured to the payload and is movable through the opening in the stage so as to raise or lower the payload.
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公开(公告)号:US20230339602A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-26
申请号:US17727531
申请日:2022-04-22
Applicant: Baxter Aerospace LLC.
Inventor: Jeffrey Baxter , Michael Baxter
CPC classification number: B64C11/44 , B64C39/024 , B64C29/02 , B64C2201/088 , B64C2201/108 , B64C2201/104 , B64C2201/021
Abstract: An aircraft may include a body structure and a propulsion system coupled to the body structure and including a mounting shaft and a rotor. The rotor may include a rotor hub and a set of rotor blades, wherein the rotor is configured to orient the set of rotor blades at a first collective blade angle during a first flight mode and orient the set of rotor blades at a second collective blade angle during a second flight mode. The propulsion system may further include a motor coupled to the rotor and configured to rotate the rotor in a first rotational direction in the first flight mode to produce thrust in a first thrust direction and rotate the rotor in a second rotational direction opposite the first rotational direction in the second flight mode to produce thrust in a second thrust direction opposite the first thrust direction.
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公开(公告)号:US20230331376A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-19
申请号:US16542141
申请日:2019-08-15
Applicant: Meta Platforms, Inc.
Inventor: Oliver Ensslin
CPC classification number: B64C25/44 , B64C39/024 , B64C25/62 , B64C25/60 , B64C25/28 , B64C2201/021
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAVs”), systems, and methods for efficiently and safely landing while improving flight performance. In particular, the disclosure incudes a light-weight, gravity-fed, self-deploying landing gear assembly that aligns to the direction of the runway upon landing. For example, the landing gear assembly can include a pin switch and a tear-through barrier that releases and deploys the landing gear assembly. Additionally, the landing gear assembly can include castering wheels that rotate (i.e., swivel) while the UAV is in flight. Furthermore, the landing gear assembly can include friction-disks to reduce the rotation of the castering wheels when the landing gear assembly contacts the ground and receives the weight of the UAV. Moreover, the landing gear assembly can detect that the UAV has landed and can signal the UAV to initiate a roll stop mechanism.
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公开(公告)号:US20230165182A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-01
申请号:US17975996
申请日:2022-10-28
Inventor: Yang-Jae JEONG , Kyung-Il KIM , Chae-Deok LIM , Beob-Kyun KIM , Young-Bin KIM , Jin-Ah SHIN , Duk-Kyun WOO , Dong-Wan RYOO , Yoo-Jin LIM , Su-Jung HA
CPC classification number: A01B79/005 , A01C21/005 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/141 , B64C2201/123 , B64C2201/021
Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for providing a wide-area precision agriculture service based on collaboration between heterogeneous drones. The method for providing a wide-area precision agriculture service based on collaboration between heterogeneous drones includes transferring first mission information including photography of an entirety of arable land to a fixed-wing drone, receiving first drone data corresponding to the first mission information from the fixed-wing drone, and analyzing the entire agricultural arable land based on the first drone data, and transferring detailed mission information generated based on a result of analysis of the entire agricultural arable land to at least one rotary-wing drone.
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公开(公告)号:US20230150668A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-18
申请号:US17455383
申请日:2021-11-17
Applicant: General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
Inventor: Michael Joseph Allwein , Kevin David Koller , Ryan Bylard , Roy Hultenius
CPC classification number: B64D3/02 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/021 , B64C2201/206
Abstract: Features for in-flight recovery of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). A towline may be deployed by a host aircraft in-flight to recover an in-flight target UAV. The towline or portion thereof may be oriented nearly vertical. The towline may have a fitting thereon. A capture mechanism on the target UAV may have one or more deployable flaps that engage with the near vertical towline and fitting. The flaps may stow to secure the target aircraft to the towline and fitting. The host aircraft may then retract the towline to pull in the target UAV to the host aircraft using a hoist system having a winch. A latching system located in a pylon of the host aircraft, which may be under a wing, may have a towline connector that engages with and secures the target UAV. The host aircraft may have multiple hoist systems for deployment and/or recovery of multiple target UAV's.
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公开(公告)号:US20190204836A1
公开(公告)日:2019-07-04
申请号:US16294387
申请日:2019-03-06
Applicant: Alarm.com Incorporated
Inventor: Babak Rezvani
CPC classification number: G05D1/02 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/021 , B64C2201/024 , B64C2201/027 , B64C2201/042 , B64C2201/127 , G05D1/0022 , G06Q10/00 , G08B13/196 , G08B13/1965 , G08B15/00 , G08B15/02 , G08B25/008 , G08B25/14
Abstract: In one general aspect, a drone control device includes a body, a motor that is configured to move the body, a network module, an input module, and a processor. The network module is configured to communicate with a security system that monitors a property and receive data associated with a location within the property. The input module is configured to receive user input. The processor is configured to perform operations that include: determine, from among the location within the property and other locations within the property, a target location within the property; move the body to the target location within the property by providing a signal to the motor; receive, from the input module, input data that is associated with an operation of the security system; and in response to receiving the input data, perform the operation of the security system.
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公开(公告)号:US20190112045A1
公开(公告)日:2019-04-18
申请号:US15851672
申请日:2017-12-21
Applicant: Hanhui ZHANG
Inventor: Hanhui ZHANG
IPC: B64C39/02
CPC classification number: B64C39/024 , B64C2201/021 , B64C2201/024 , B64C2201/027 , B64C2201/104 , B64C2201/108 , B64C2201/12 , B64C2201/182
Abstract: A drone capture aerial vehicle includes a fuselage and a drone capture device. The drone capture device includes a middle post and a plurality of foldable frame arms; the middle post includes a first end and a second end; and each foldable frame arm includes a plurality of ribs and a plurality of links. A method of capturing a drone includes providing a drone capture aerial vehicle, the drone capture aerial vehicle having a drone capture device and the drone capture device having a foldable capture net; flying the drone capture aerial vehicle toward the drone; activating the drone capture device to deploy the foldable capture net; and capturing the drone with the capture net.
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公开(公告)号:US20190023374A1
公开(公告)日:2019-01-24
申请号:US15755669
申请日:2016-08-25
Applicant: UVISION AIR LTD
Inventor: MOSHE KAHLON , AMIT MORAG
CPC classification number: B64C3/56 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/021 , B64C2201/08 , B64C2201/102 , B64C2201/201 , B64C2201/203 , F42B10/14
Abstract: An unmanned air vehicle (UAV) having a fuselage, a foldable propulsion means to generate thrust leading to the UAV movement, a driving means to drive the propulsion means and a plurality of flight control surfaces actuators are further included. The UAV further includes at least one pair of foldable wings where the rear portion of the wings is pivotally attached to the fuselage. The wings having at least one roll control surface hinged to at least one of the foldable wings. At least a pair of tail stabilizers having ruddervators flight control surfaces hinged to the tail stabilizers. In a fully extended position or in ready to fly state position, each of the foldable wings are deployed perpendicular to one another and perpendicular to the fuselage to form an offset-x shaped wings, and in a stowed position, each of the wings are positioned parallel to one another and positioned parallel to the fuselage.
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公开(公告)号:US20180321676A1
公开(公告)日:2018-11-08
申请号:US15808783
申请日:2017-11-09
Applicant: AeroVironment, Inc.
Inventor: Thaddeus Benjamin Matuszeski , William Arden Lott , Derek Lisoski
CPC classification number: G05D1/0055 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/021 , B64C2201/024 , B64C2201/146 , G05D1/0016 , H04N7/185
Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for a safety system including: selecting an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) command on a controller, the controller comprising a first processor with addressable memory; presenting a first activator and a second activator on a display of the controller for the selected UAV command, wherein the second activator is a slider; and sending the UAV command to a UAV if the first activator and the second activator are selected, the UAV comprising a second processor with addressable memory.
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公开(公告)号:US20180265193A1
公开(公告)日:2018-09-20
申请号:US15143625
申请日:2016-05-01
Applicant: Transition Robotics, Inc.
Inventor: Jeffrey Kyle Gibboney , Pranay Sinha
CPC classification number: B64C39/024 , B64C3/54 , B64C39/08 , B64C2201/021 , B64C2201/042 , B64C2201/088 , B64C2201/104 , B64C2201/165
Abstract: A manned/unmanned aerial vehicle adapted for vertical takeoff and landing using the same set of engines for takeoff and landing as well as for forward flight. An aerial vehicle which is adapted to takeoff with the wings in a vertical as opposed to horizontal flight attitude which takes off in this vertical attitude and then transitions to a horizontal flight path. An aerial vehicle system which has removable wing sections which allow for re-configuration with different wing section types, allowing for configurations adapted for a particular flight profile. A method of customizing a configuration of an unmanned aerial vehicle based upon flight profile factors such as duration, stability, and maneuverability.
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