Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Air vehicle flight mechanism and control method
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Application No.: US14198418Application Date: 2014-03-05
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Publication No.: US09950790B2Publication Date: 2018-04-24
- Inventor: Matthew Todd Keennon , Karl Robert Klingebiel , Alexander Andryukov , Bart Dean Hibbs , John Peter Zwaan
- Applicant: AeroVironment, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Monrovia
- Assignee: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.
- Current Assignee: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Monrovia
- Agent Pejman Yedidsion; Michael Zarrabian; Eric Aagaard
- Main IPC: B64C33/02
- IPC: B64C33/02 ; B64C19/00

Abstract:
Heavier-than-air, aircraft having flapping wings, e.g., ornithopters, where angular orientation control is effected by variable differential sweep angles of deflection of the flappable wings in the course of sweep angles of travel and/or the control of variable wing membrane tension.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180079504A9 AIR VEHICLE FLIGHT MECHANISM AND CONTROL METHOD Public/Granted day:2018-03-22
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