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Rotorcraft having coaxial counter-rotating rotors which produce both vertical and horizontal thrust and method of controlled flight in all six degrees of freedom

A rotorcraft and method for providing controlled flight which provides flight in all six degrees of freedom of pitch, roll, yaw, up / down, forward / rear, and left / right. The rotorcraft includes a fuselage with a pair of counter-rotating rotor blade assemblies each having a plurality of radially-extending airfoil shaped blades about a vertically disposed central axis. A rotor drive system mounted to the fuselage includes a motor or engine for rotationally driving the rotor blade assemblies. A rotor blade control system monitors the rotational location of each blade relative to the fuselage and allows a pilot to control respective vertical and horizontal thrust components of the blades corresponding to lift versus drag characteristics of the airfoils during rotation about the fuselage. This is done by changing the pitch angles of the blades and / or by utilizing respective flaps pivotally mounted to the blades to change the effective pitch angle of the blades.
Owner:PETERSEN BRUCE L

Multi-rotor safety shield

The Multi-Rotor Safety Shield (MRSS) provides a complete and substantial encasement system which can be secured about a Drone, protecting a multitude of aircraft components from contact with any outside disturbance and which can protect the sensitive components from dust, water, wind, rain, snow, fingers, toes, appendages of any kind, and atmospheric changes as example, from disabling the Drone and can protect people, places or things from high velocity spinning exposed rotor / propellers. The MRSS provides rigid non-permeable platform for attaching or incorporating additional safety devices as found in the Drone industry (or other industries) resulting in a safety device that completely prevents the loss a Drone due to the catastrophic failure of any Drone system or combination of systems which would typically result in rapid decent, and / or uncontrolled flight. The MRSS makes Drones safe near humans and safe to use around public gatherings, stadium events, accident scenes, disaster search and rescue and disaster relief, and indoors for the security and communications markets among others expanding the availability of Drones to further assist humanity.
Owner:ROTOR SHIELD LLC

Steerable rotating projectile

A method for controlling a flying projectile which rotates during flight, comprising: determining an angle of rotation of an inertial mass spinning about an axis during flight; and controlling at least one actuator for altering at least a portion of an aerodynamic structure, selectively in dependence on the determined angle of rotation and a control input, to control aerodynamic forces during flight. An aerodynamic surface may rotate and interact with surrounding air during flight, to produce aerodynamic forces. A sensor determines an angular rotation of the spin during flight. A control system, responsive to the sensor, produces a control signal in dependence on the determined angular rotation. An actuator selectively alters an aerodynamic characteristic of the aerodynamic surface in response to the control signal.
Owner:HOFFBERG STEVEN M

Aircraft and hybrid with magnetic airfoil suspension and drive

An aircraft is disclosed that comprises a fuselage with first and second wings non-rotatably secured to and extending from sides of the fuselage. Inner and outer tracks are secured to and encircle the fuselage, and airfoils are operably secured between the inner and outer tracks. Means are provided for rotating the airfoils. The means for rotating the airfoils may be comprised of first and second drive coils, and first and second alternators may be operably coupled to the first and second drive coils, respectively, to provide redundant power supplies. Permanent magnets in the rotor hub may be arranged in a Halbach array or may be arranged to provide a series of alternating, opposite magnetic poles. Separate drive and suspension coils may be provided in the stator. The concept may find further application in a lift fan or tail section of conventional aircraft. In that regard, a lift fan or tail section may be provided in which a stator magnetically levitates a lift fan rotor or tail rotor. The stator may include suspension coils and drive coils to eliminate the need for a drive shaft and gears to power the lift fan rotor or tail rotor.
Owner:NUNNALLY WILLIAM C

Saucer-shaped gyroscopically stabilized vertical take-off and landing aircraft

An aircraft that is housed within a gyroscope providing for improved flight stability that includes an inner hull which remains stationary within a rotating outer hull. A rotating plate includes a groove that traces a sinusoidal pattern around an inside periphery of the plate. Tracking arms have a portion that fit within the groove and another portion that connects to a piston. The rotation of the plate causes the tracking arms to travel within the sinusoidal groove and impart movement on the plurality of pistons which will intake air from above the upper surface of the inner hull configuration and create a negative pressure on the aircraft. The craft contains compression chambers which receive the air and which feed the various impeller thrusters which are rotational within three-fourths of a hemisphere.
Owner:MARTIN HERBERT

Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial vehicle and method of operating such a vtol aerial vehicle

A Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) aerial vehicle (1, 46), e.g. a rotorcraft with long range and high cruising speed capability. The aerial vehicle (1, 46) has a torus-type fuselage (2) with radial inside a duct (5) and at least one main rotor (13, 26). A pair of lateral wings (40) are attached opposed to each other outside the fuselage (2) and at least one engine (18) drives said at least one main rotor (13, 26) and at least two propulsion means (24) fitted to each of said wings (40). The invention relates as well to a method of operating such a VTOL aerial vehicle (1, 46).
Owner:AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUT GMBH

Electric VTOL Aircraft

An electric and hybrid Vertical-Take Off and Landing (“VTOL”) aircraft is disclosed comprising a plurality of small Electric Ducted Fans (“EDFs”) of various sizes and orientations. The thrust of each fixed EDF is individually controlled by modulation of motor power by one or more onboard microcomputers connected to a plurality of onboard laser distance measuring sensors, at least three onboard three-axis accelerometers and at least one GPS thereby allowing extremely precise and safe VTOL operation. The aircraft may be employed to allow robotic and passenger vehicles to transition extremely quickly between normal linear flight and VTOL and tb operate in extreme and gusty conditions.
Owner:NEVA AEROSPACE LTD

Thrust generating apparatus

There have been past proposals for air vehicles employing the Coanda effect. In these proposals, a jet of fluid, usually air, is made to flow radially outwardly over 5 a dome-shaped canopy to create lift. A cross-section through the canopy is curved to follow a segment of a circle or it may have a radius of curvature that increases in the direction of flow. In the invention, the radius (r) of the canopy curve decreases towards the downstream direction (x) in a way that is related to the decrease in the width of 10 the jet as it flows over the surface. This means that the radius of curvature decreases (instead of increasing) towards the downstream direction with the rate of decrease being progressively less rapid towards the downstream direction.
Owner:AESIR

Craft with magnetically curved space

A craft can navigate through a magnetically curved space provided by an electromagnetically charged hull. The hull contains a plurality of sectionalized and independent electromagnetic plates forming portions of the hull exterior wall that can be adaptively energized to have a desired polarity. When combined together, these sectionalized plates can provide an ultra high frequency electromagnetic field of a strength that can magnetically curve the space around the craft. This enables the craft to expeditiously travel through air, space or water. A novel energy generating system using a combination of jet engines and high frequency oscillators is also provided.
Owner:PATERRO VON FRIEDRICH C

Unbalanced gyroscopic apparatus for producing unidirectional thrust

An unbalanced gyroscopic apparatus is disclosed for producing unidirectional thrust without having to interact with an external gas, liquid, or solid mass. The technique is based on the controlled transitions of an unbalanced spinning mass between two stable unbalanced weight states resulting in a net unidirectional thrust at the spin axis. In one existing embodiment, an apparatus with an attached body can be propelled up a planar incline "sliding" uphill against terrestrial gravity. In another embodiment, multiple pairs of synchronized and mirror-image, unbalanced gyroscopic assemblies are combined as one apparatus and attached to a body with the potential to propel it in any direction, including defeating gravity completely without interaction with gas, liquid, or solid mass or without use of propellants.
Owner:NEFF RUPERT T

Jet self-rotation disc type aircraft capable of realizing vertical take-off and landing and working method

The invention discloses a jet self-rotation disc type aircraft capable of realizing vertical take-off and landing and a working method. The jet self-rotation disc type aircraft is formed by two parts of a disc type machine body and a stator machine body which can be used for bearing cargos, and mainly comprises a rotary disc machine body, a lift fan, jet engines, air inlets of the jet engines, air outlets of the jet engines, a lift fan hub, a gyrorotor type cargo compartment, a stator blade bar, a stator blade bar hub, an outer cartridge receiver of the stator blade bar, vector nozzles, flow deflectors and the like. According to the jet self-rotation disc type aircraft capable of realizing the vertical take-off and landing, designed by the invention, the jet self-rotation disc type aircraft adopts pneumatic layout with a blended wing body, not only has good pneumatic performance, but also has no need to consider limiting factors of place space during a take-off and landing process, is capable of freely taking off and landing, hovering and climbing, and has good stability under a high-speed self-rotation flying state.
Owner:NANJING UNIV OF AERONAUTICS & ASTRONAUTICS

Electrodynamic field generator

This device is a brushless high-voltage electrical generator for producing a high energy external electrodynamic field or continuous quasi-coherent DC corona or arcdischarge of uniformed current density which completely encloses the machine's conductive housing (1). This housing is divided into distinct electrical sections (3-5) and contains a flat conductive rotor (6) electrically links separate negative (3) and positive (5) housing sections and upon which a plurality of toroidal generating coils (35, 40, 56) are rotatably mounted. Circular arrays of stationary permanent magnets (34, 39, 55) are affixed within the housing which induce a constant DC voltage within said coils upon their rotation. The primary voltage generated is electrostatically impressed across the rotor such that great quantities of electronic charge may be transported between the opposite polarity sections (3-5) of the housing, in such a manner that a much higher secondary voltage is caused to appear across interposed neutral sections thereof, and the resulting external breakdown current once initiated is independent of the generating coils'ampacity. Ancillary mechanical, electrical, and / or electronic features may be attached upon or within the housing to aid in harnessing and controlling the useful effects associated with the external dynamic electric field produced by the device.
Owner:马克·R·托米奥恩

Helicopter with blade-tip thrusters and annular centrifugal fuel supply tank and concentric cabin and fuselage

A helicopter includes a rotor with short blades and tip thrusters. The blades extend from an annular fuel tank that rotates with the blades. Centrifugal force propels fuel from the interior compartment of the annular tank, through conduits extending through the blades from root to tip, to the tip thrusters. Valves (e.g., solenoid valves and / or a flyweight governor) regulate fuel flow to achieve and maintain a determined steady rotational speed. A fuselage covered by a canopy is mounted atop a bearing on the annular fuel tank. The pitch of each blade may be adjusted collectively and cyclically using a swash ring and hydraulic linear actuators.
Owner:CHARLES DOUGLAS POPE

Discoidal flying craft

A flying discoidal rotorcraft is equipped with a double counter rotated pulsed DC electric linear-toroidal electric motor-generator combined with a magnetically levitated suspension of the rotorcraft body over the propulsion assembly. The inner and outer rims are made up of electro-active-magnetic levitation and guidance pilot solenoids as the fixed portion of the stator's assembly and electrokinetic motor-generator and also the attached part of the craft's body. The mobile portion is double independent counter rotated ferromagnetic cores, wherein rotors of the electrokinetic motor-generator have three main components: electromagnets or solenoids including in their functions external and internal electromagnetic and guidance solenoids and energy collector and inductor; electric motor-generator solenoid coils; and a ring propeller.
Owner:CLEARWATER HLDG +1
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