公开(公告)号：US10096255B1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-09

申请号：US15440533

申请日：2017-02-23

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Jon Lewis Lindskog ,  Daniel Buchmueller ,  Samuel Park ,  Louis LeRoi LeGrand, III ,  Ricky Dean Welsh ,  Fabian Hensel ,  Christopher Aden Maynor ,  Ishwarya Ananthabhotla ,  Scott Michael Wilcox

IPC: H02K7/18 ,  B64D17/80 ,  B64D45/00 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G08G5/04 ,  G08G5/00

Abstract: This disclosure describes an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) and system that may perform one or more techniques for protecting objects from damage resulting from an unintended or uncontrolled impact by a UAV. As described herein, various implementations utilize a damage avoidance system that detects a risk of damage to an object caused by an impact from a UAV that has lost control and takes steps to reduce or eliminate that risk. For example, the damage avoidance system may detect that the UAV has lost power and/or is falling at a rapid rate of descent such that, upon impact, there is a risk of damage to an object with which the UAV may collide. Upon detecting the risk of damage and prior to impact, the damage avoidance system activates a damage avoidance system having one or more protection elements that work in concert to reduce or prevent damage to the object upon impact by the UAV.

公开(公告)号：US09613539B1

公开(公告)日：2017-04-04

申请号：US14500826

申请日：2014-09-29

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Jon Lewis Lindskog ,  Daniel Buchmueller ,  Samuel Park ,  Louis LeRoi LeGrand, III ,  Ricky Dean Welsh ,  Fabian Hensel ,  Christopher Aden Maynor ,  Ishwarya Ananthabhotla ,  Scott Michael Wilcox

IPC: G08G5/04 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64D45/00 ,  B64D17/80 ,  H02K7/18

CPC classification number: G08G5/04 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64C2201/027 ,  B64C2201/108 ,  B64C2201/128 ,  B64D17/80 ,  B64D45/00 ,  G08G5/0008 ,  G08G5/0013 ,  G08G5/0026 ,  G08G5/0056 ,  G08G5/0069 ,  H02K7/183

Abstract: This disclosure describes an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) and system that may perform one or more techniques for protecting objects from damage resulting from an unintended or uncontrolled impact by a UAV. As described herein, various implementations utilize a damage avoidance system that detects a risk of damage to an object caused by an impact from a UAV that has lost control and takes steps to reduce or eliminate that risk. For example, the damage avoidance system may detect that the UAV has lost power and/or is falling at a rapid rate of descent such that, upon impact, there is a risk of damage to an object with which the UAV may collide. Upon detecting the risk of damage and prior to impact, the damage avoidance system activates a damage avoidance system having one or more protection elements that work in concert to reduce or prevent damage to the object upon impact by the UAV.