Vertical take-off and landing aircraft and wing apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US12017763B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-25

    申请号:US17478159

    申请日:2021-09-17

    发明人: Yuki Matsui

    摘要: A vertical take-off and landing aircraft includes a ducted rotary wing. The ducted rotary wing includes a duct and a rotary wing. The duct runs through a body from an upper surface to a lower surface thereof. The rotary wing is provided inside the duct and includes a hub and a blade configured to rotate about the hub. The blade includes a tip inlet, a trailing-edge outlet, and a trailing-edge flow path. The tip inlet is provided on a tip surface of the blade. The trailing-edge outlet is provided at a trailing edge that is an edge on a rear side in a rotation direction of the blade. The trailing-edge flow path allows the tip inlet and the trailing-edge outlet to be in communication with each other.

    Tilting landing gear systems and methods

    公开(公告)号:US11939043B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-26

    申请号:US17512421

    申请日:2021-10-27

    申请人: JETZERO, Inc.

    发明人: Mark A. Page

    IPC分类号: B64C25/00 B64C25/14 B64C39/10

    摘要: Systems and methods for mechanically rotating an aircraft about its center-of-gravity (CG) are disclosed. The system can enable the rear, or main, landing gear to squat, while the nose landing gear raises to generate a positive angle of attack for the aircraft for takeoff or landing. The system can also enable the nose gear and main gear to return to a relatively level fuselage attitude for ground operations. The system can include one or more hydraulically linked hydraulic cylinders to control the overall height of the nose gear and the main gear. Because the hydraulic cylinders are linked, a change on the length of the nose cylinder generates a proportional, and opposite, change in the length of the main cylinder, and vice-versa. A method and control system for monitoring and controlling the relative positions of the nose gear and main gear is also disclosed.

    Vertical takeoff and landing aircraft

    公开(公告)号:US11912404B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-27

    申请号:US16280021

    申请日:2019-02-19

    发明人: Paul J. DeLorean

    摘要: The disclosure generally pertains to a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft comprising a fuselage and at least one fixed wing. The aircraft may include at least two powered rotors located generally along a longitudinal axis of the fuselage. The rotor units may be coupled to the fuselage via a rotating chassis, which allows the rotors to provide directed thrust by movement of the rotor units about at least one axis. The VTOL aircraft may include instructions to perform a degraded rotor landing protocol. The degraded rotor landing protocol may include adjusting a power to an operable rotor unit to control a rate of descent and/or slow a rate of acceleration toward a landing surface. The VTOL aircraft may be configured to impact the landing surface from a substantially vertical configuration, and adjust a thrust vector to cause the aircraft to come to rest in a generally upright configuration.

    FLYING BODY
    10.
    发明公开
    FLYING BODY 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230322383A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-12

    申请号:US18331960

    申请日:2023-06-09

    申请人: HAPSMobile Inc.

    摘要: There is provided a flight vehicle including: a wing unit; a battery that is arranged in the wing unit; an air intake unit that is formed at a position corresponding to the battery on a front side of the wing unit; a heat sink unit that is arranged for the battery and cools the battery by air which flows in from the air intake unit and that includes a ventilation unit having a shape widening from the front side toward a rear side; and an exhaust unit that is formed at a position corresponding to the battery on the rear side of the wing unit and that exhausts air which flows out from the heat sink unit.