Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Floating mobile object and floating mobile system using the same
- Patent Title (中): 浮动移动物体和浮动移动系统使用相同
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Application No.: US14385506Application Date: 2013-02-14
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Publication No.: US09308986B2Publication Date: 2016-04-12
- Inventor: Katsuya Kanaoka
- Applicant: The Ritsumeikan Trust
- Applicant Address: JP Kyoto
- Assignee: The Ritsumeikan Trust
- Current Assignee: The Ritsumeikan Trust
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kyoto
- Agency: Kirschstein, Israel, Schiffmiller & Pieroni, P.C.
- Priority: JP2012-060598 20120316
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/053557 WO 20130214
- International Announcement: WO2013/136902 WO 20130919
- Main IPC: B64C15/12
- IPC: B64C15/12 ; B63H25/04 ; B64C39/02 ; G05D1/10 ; B63H25/46 ; B63B35/00

Abstract:
A holonomic floating mobile object is operated under gravity and includes a main body and six or more thrusters for generating thrust by changing the momentum of a fluid. The six or more thrusters are controlled independently of one another such that the thrust is set at a desired value. The six or more thrusters are arranged in a fuselage coordinate system defined on the main body, such that the range in which a total thrust vector obtained by combining vectors of the thrust generated by all of the thrusters can be generated spans a six-dimensional space with three directions of translation and three directions of rotation. Incoming and outgoing flows to and from one of the thrusters are spaced apart from incoming and outgoing flows to and from the other thrusters and even apart from every other fuselage structure aside from that one thruster.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150108282A1 FLOATING MOBILE OBJECT AND FLOATING MOBILE SYSTEM USING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2015-04-23
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