99results about "Passenger handling installations" patented technology

The invention provides a new class of transportation with a partially aerostatically supported ram air cushion ship (PASRACS) that can provide safe, fast, efficient global transport services with extraordinary comfort, luxury and amenities. The PASRACS employs inventive synergistic combinations of lift from aerostatic, aerodynamic, hydrostatic and hydrodynamic forces for different modes of operation ranging from a stationary floating configuration on a water surface, to flight in ground effect at high speed. A propulsion system can utilize hydrogen as an energy source driving fluid-dynamic thrusters, to enable zero carbon emissions operations. A transition method is provided for a PASRACS to transition from a floating mode to a takeoff mode to a flight in ground-effect mode in an inventive optimized manner. A transport method for multimodally transporting payload is provided with PASRACS vehicles and systems, with quick turn time operations enabled by the use of payload transfer transport modules and transfer vehicles.

A modular vertical take-off and landing aircraft for transporting persons and / or loads, comprising a flight module with multiple drive units arranged on a supporting framework structure, each drive unit having an electric motor and a propeller operatively connected to the electric motor, a transport module having a conveying pod and a connection device for connecting the conveying pod to the flight module. The connection device has an elongated shaft, one end of which is attached to the conveying pod, and a coupling device for connecting the flight module to another end of the elongate shaft of the transport module.

A method for docking a boarding bridge with an aircraft, an electronic equipment and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: planning a path from a position at which a bridgehead is located when the boarding bridge is at a parking position to a pre-docking position which is 1 to 2 meters away from a cabin door of the aircraft, driving the boarding bridge to move the bridgehead towards the pre-docking position along the path until the bridgehead moves to a position within 2 meters away from the pre-docking position; acquiring an aircraft image of the aircraft, obtaining a spatial position of the cabin door according to the aircraft image, and moving the boarding bridge according to the spatial position to enable the bridgehead to dock with the cabin door.

A vertiport system according to an embodiment may include a first area, a second area provided in a different position from the first area, and a transfer unit configured to transfer an aircraft between the first area and the second area, wherein the transfer unit may include a transfer rail connecting the first area and the second area, and a moving device configured to accommodate at least a portion of a landing gear of the aircraft and the moving device being configured to move along the transfer rail.

A vertiport system includes a plurality of touchdown and lift-off (TLOF) platforms. The vertiport system also includes a final approach and take-off (FATO) area. The vertiport system also includes a driver configured to move the TLOF platforms with respect to the FATO area.

A vertiport system according to an embodiment may include a first area, a second area provided in a different position from the first area, and a transfer unit configured to transfer an aircraft between the first area and the second area, wherein the transfer unit may include a transfer rail connecting the first area and the second area, and a moving device configured to accommodate at least a portion of a landing gear of the aircraft and the moving device being configured to move along the transfer rail.

An aerial vehicle has a passenger cabin for receiving at least one passenger, a load-bearing structure beneath the cabin, and a propulsion system including a number of propulsion units, which propel the aerial vehicle for powered flight and vertical take-off and landing (VTOL). The propulsion units are preferably carried by support arms attached to the load-bearing structure and extending upwards therefrom so as to support the propulsion units at a level above the cabin. The aerial vehicle is preferably reconfigurable to a compact configuration after landing, with at least some of the propulsion units overlapping the cabin and / or each other, while still allowing passenger transfer in and out of the vehicle, thereby facilitating efficient use of space for implementing a vertiport.

A final approach and takeoff (FATO) surface for a VTOL aircraft redirects downwash as outwash and may capture outwash from the VTOL aircraft to generate electricity. The FATO surface system may include a central solid plateau configured to capture downwash from the VTOL aircraft to enhance a ground effect for optimal stabilization during takeoff and landing. A floor grate surrounding the plateau may allow outwash to pass through to a subsurface where the outwash is channeled to exhausts or at least one turbine for generating electricity from the outwash. Redirecting the downwash to outwash reduces undesirable effects such as noise and airspeed associated with the VTOL aircraft. The electricity may be used to recharge the VTOL, electric vehicles parked at a vertiport of the FATO surface system, may be used by a building at the vertiport, or may be delivered to a local power grid.

A vertiport system (100) comprising a transfer unit (130) and using a rail movement device, wherein the vertiport system (100) according to one embodiment may comprise: a first area (111), a second area (113) provided at a different location than the first area (111), and a transfer unit (120) configured to transfer an aircraft (200) between the first area (111) and the second area (113), wherein the transfer unit (120) may comprise a transfer rail (130) connecting the first area (111) and the second area (113) and a movement device configured to accommodate at least a portion of a landing gear of the aircraft (200), and wherein the movement device is configured to move along the transfer rail (130).

The invention provides a new class of transportation with a partially aerostatically supported ram air cushion ship (PASRACS) that can provide safe, fast, efficient global transport services with extraordinary comfort, luxury and amenities. The PASRACS employs inventive synergistic combinations of lift from aerostatic, aerodynamic, hydrostatic and hydrodynamic forces for different modes of operation ranging from a stationary floating configuration on a water surface, to flight in ground effect at high speed. A propulsion system can utilize hydrogen as an energy source driving fluid-dynamic thrusters, to enable zero carbon emissions operations. A transition method is provided for a PASRACS to transition from a floating mode to a takeoff mode to a flight in ground-effect mode in an inventive optimized manner. A transport method for multimodally transporting payload is provided with PASRACS vehicles and systems, with quick turn time operations enabled by the use of payload transfer transport modules and transfer vehicles.

The utility model relates to the technical field of aviation ground support equipment, in particular to an integrated seat for a ferry vehicle, which comprises a seat body and a cushion, the cushion comprises a backrest part and a seat body part which are matched with the seat body, the upper end of the backrest part is fixed with a vertical insertion plate, an elastic connecting component is fixed below the seat body part, and the elastic connecting component is fixed below the seat body part. The surface of the seat body is provided with a main insertion opening used for allowing the vertical insertion plate to be inserted in a matched mode and a groove used for installing an elastic connecting assembly, and two oppositely-arranged positioning holes are formed in the groove in the width direction of the seat body. The elastic connecting assembly is provided with a positioning part matched with the positioning hole and a driving part for driving the positioning part to move in the direction far away from / close to the positioning hole under the action of external force, and the front end of the seat body is provided with a dismounting channel connected with the groove; the integrated seat for the ferry vehicle is provided with the cushion which can be conveniently detached, and the integral appearance is ensured to be attractive.

A unmanned robot for an urban air mobility vehicle includes: a processor; a communication module; and at least one storage medium operatively connected to the processor, wherein a program configured to be executable by the processor is recorded in the at least one storage medium, wherein the program may include commands for a control module configured to control performance of an operation according to the received command according to one of a first mode and a second mode, wherein the first mode may be a mode in which one or more of the unmanned robots move in synchronization with the urban air mobility vehicle, and the second mode may be a mode in which one or more of the unmanned robots are arranged on a road surface between a take-off and landing area of the urban air mobility vehicle and a gate to provide a moving path.

A final approach and takeoff (FATO) surface for a VTOL aircraft redirects downwash as outwash and may capture outwash from the VTOL aircraft to generate electricity. The FATO surface system may include a central solid plateau configured to capture downwash from the VTOL aircraft to enhance a ground effect for optimal stabilization during takeoff and landing. A floor grate surrounding the plateau may allow outwash to pass through to a subsurface where the outwash is channeled to exhausts or at least one turbine for generating electricity from the outwash. Redirecting the downwash to outwash reduces undesirable effects such as noise and airspeed associated with the VTOL aircraft. The electricity may be used to recharge the VTOL, electric vehicles parked at a vertiport of the FATO surface system, may be used by a building at the vertiport, or may be delivered to a local power grid.

The invention provides a remote machine position corridor which comprises a vehicle frame and a telescopic canopy, and a containing space is formed in the vehicle frame. The telescopic canopy comprises a plurality of supporting frames and telescopic assemblies, each supporting frame comprises two side supports oppositely arranged in the first direction, and the telescopic assemblies are connected between the side supports on the same side. In the plane orthographic projection of the telescopic canopy in the top-bottom direction, the telescopic assemblies form a stacked structure stacked in the first direction on the side supports, the stacked structure comprises at least two layers, and the at least two layers are located on the two opposite sides of the side supports in the first direction respectively. According to the remote parking space corridor, the telescopic assembly can occupy a small space, does not occupy the width of a channel, facilitates passing of passengers, can also improve the connection stability and the telescopic driving stability of the telescopic assembly and the supporting frame, provides enough support for the telescopic canopy, reduces the situation that the middle droops, and improves the safety of the canopy. And the conditions of weak wind resistance and limited supporting strength caused by the adoption of a single-layer structure in the telescopic assembly are reduced.

The invention relates to the field of ferry vehicles, in particular to a ferry vehicle which comprises a vehicle frame and a carriage movably arranged on the vehicle frame, a lifting driving assembly is arranged between the vehicle frame and the carriage, a folding ladder is hinged to the vehicle frame and the carriage, an upper opening and a lower opening are formed in the bottom face of the carriage, and the top end of the folding ladder is hinged to the ends of the upper opening and the lower opening. An in-out opening is formed in the front end of the compartment, the lifting driving assembly drives the compartment to move upwards, the in-out opening is in butt joint with an airplane cabin door, the lifting driving assembly drives the compartment to move downwards, and the in-out opening is in butt joint with the rear end face of a cab of the frame, so that different use requirements are met, and the functions are more diversified.

The present disclosure provides an airport shuttle control method and device, storage medium and airport shuttle, which can accurately determine the slip rate of the wheels on the airport shuttle by acquiring the speed of the airport shuttle and the wheel speed of the wheels, and based on the speed of the airport shuttle and the wheel speed of the wheels. When the wheel speed of the first wheel in the wheels is greater than the speed, and the slip rate is greater than the preset threshold, it can be determined that the first wheel of the vehicle slips in the normal driving process. By transferring at least part of the torque of the first wheel to the second wheel with a slip rate less than or equal to the preset threshold, the torque can be flexibly distributed, so that the second wheel with better adhesion rate obtains more torque, which is conducive to reducing the slip and improving the driving performance of the airport shuttle in the normal driving process.

The invention relates to a modular vertical take-off and landing aircraft (1) for transporting persons and / or loads, having: — a flight module (2) with multiple drive units (4) arranged on a wing assembly (3), each drive unit (4) having an electric motor (5) and a propeller (6) that is operatively connected to the electric motor (5), — a transport module (7) having a conveying pod (8) and a connection device (9) for connecting the conveying pod (8) to the flight module (2), the connection device (9) having an elongate shaft (10), one end of which is attached to the conveying pod (8), and — a coupling device (11) for connecting the flight module (2) to another end of the elongate shaft (10) of the transport module (7).

An embodiment provides a compact vertiport system. The vertiport system can be efficient and compact by integrating multiple activities that typically occur in different spaces and at different times into one space and time period. For example, as an aircraft is being moved from a landing zone to a takeoff zone, the aircraft can also be simultaneously charged. Also, passengers can be swapped while the aircraft is being moved. As a result, the compact vertiport system can fit into a smaller space, such as the top of a building or a smaller piece of land.

Provided are a method and an apparatus (900) for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (101), a method and an apparatus (1000) for controlling a shuttle vehicle (103), an unmanned aerial vehicle (101), a shuttle vehicle (103), a transportation system (200), and an electronic device (1000) and a computer-readable storage medium. The method for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (101) includes: controlling unmanned aerial vehicle (101) to be aligned with ground orbit (105) in destination site and continue to fly at predetermined flight altitude, in response to the unmanned aerial vehicle (101) flying to first preset airspace near the destination site; controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle (101) to be separated from first cabin carried by the unmanned aerial vehicle and place the separated first cabin at first position of lifting platform (1033) of a shuttle vehicle (103) driving along the ground orbit (105) and controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle (101) to be combined with second cabin carried at second position of the lifting platform (1033), in response to the unmanned aerial vehicle (101) flying to position directly above the first position and being in relatively static state with the shuttle vehicle (103); and controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle (101) to fly to next destination site, in response to completion of the combination of the unmanned aerial vehicle (101) and the second cabin.

A gangway for a multi-car vehicle has a bellows attached to an endframe and a crimping element attached to the endframe. The crimping element has a crimping mouth. A part of the bellows is inserted into and held inside the crimping mouth. The crimping mouth is defined by two sidewalls arranged next to each other and joined together at one of their ends by a bottom wall, and not joined together at opposite ends to provide an opening of the crimping mouth. The crimping mouth causes the part of the bellows that is held inside the crimping mouth to be pinched together, and is of a material having spring properties such that one of the side walls can be moved away from the other one of the side walls only by tensioning the side walls against a restoring force provided by the spring properties of the crimping element.

The invention relates to an aircraft ground support unit (1) (GSU) for supplying a specific service according to a specific set of service parameters to an aircraft (2) on the ground and consuming a specific service energy for supplying the specific service as a whole in a given available service duration, the GSU comprising: a rechargeable energy storage unit (3) (RESU) which, when fully charged, is configured for autonomously delivering the specific service energy required for supplying the specific service in the given available service duration, an energy sensor (4) configured for measuring an instantaneous state of energy parameters of the RESU, a control unit (5) configured for, • identifying the aircraft (2), preferably including an aircraft type and an airline, • identifying in the database the specific set of service parameters of the specific service to the thus identified aircraft, • establishing a specific service energy budget estimate corresponding to the specific set of service parameters in various ways, • determining an instantaneous charge level of the RESU based on the instantaneous state of the energy variables, • comparing the specific service energy budget estimate with the instantaneous charge level of the RESU, and for • generating an output signal representative of a capacity of the RESU to deliver the specific service energy budget estimate as a function of the instantaneous charge level of the RESU.

The utility model relates to airport special vehicle technical field discloses a boarding vehicle front person-carrying closed lifting platform for passengers with difficulty in moving, including boarding vehicle and car, the car sets up boarding vehicle top, the car top fixedly set up has the rain -shelter, the rain -shelter one side is opened with the connecting groove, the connecting groove inner wall slidingly arranged with the extension plate, the extension plate bottom outer wall fixedly connected with the connecting plate, the rain -shelter bottom is opened with the rectangle movable mouth. The utility model discloses the car as the closed lifting platform of carrying of setting, when boarding, will boarding vehicle go to the proper position, makes the rain -shelter be located cabin door top, then starts the cylinder work, and the cylinder cooperation setting rectangle movable mouth drives the connecting plate to remove, makes the connecting plate cooperation setting connecting groove drive extension plate to remove, until extension plate one side and fuselage side surface contact, is favorable to avoid rainwater to fall on the passenger's body when boarding in the rainy weather.

The present invention discloses a connecting handrail device, which includes a folding component, a first handrail arm, a second handrail arm, and an inclined ladder; one end of the folding component is hinged to a base; one end of the first handrail arm is hinged to the folding component; one end of the second handrail arm is hinged to the other end of the first handrail arm; the inclined ladder is located below the folding component and extends downward along a predetermined slope within a rotation plane at the first angle. The inclined ladder has a handrail near one end close to the folding component, and the other end of the second handrail arm is hinged to the handrail. Through the first handrail arm and the second handrail arm, a handrail can be connected between the folding component, that is, the fence and the inclined ladder when the fence changes, which helps to solve the technical problem in the prior art that there is a lack of a handrail that can be attached to the inclined ladder to ensure that there is a handrail at the connection with the changing fence, resulting in unsafe descent of personnel down the inclined ladder.

The invention relates to the technical field of airport pickup equipment, in particular to an aircraft cabin door protection device, a docking platform and airport pickup equipment. The aircraft cabin door protection device is used for a butt joint platform connected with an aircraft cabin door, the butt joint platform comprises a fixed floor and a movable floor, the movable floor can stretch out and retract relative to the fixed floor, the aircraft cabin door protection device comprises an induction assembly and a power detection assembly, and the induction assembly is used for being movably connected with the movable floor of the butt joint platform. The sensor is used for sensing action signals of the aircraft cabin door; the power detection assembly is used for being installed below the movable floor, at least part of the power detection assembly is located outside the overlapping area of the movable floor and the fixed floor, and the power detection assembly is used for achieving opening and retracting of the induction assembly and detecting action signals of the induction assembly.

The utility model relates to the technical field of airport ground equipment, in particular to a sliding ceiling of a passenger ladder, which comprises a telescopic awning, a left bearing cross beam, a right bearing cross beam, a left armrest limiting combination, a right armrest limiting combination, a left awning fixing guide rail bracket, a right awning fixing guide rail bracket, an auxiliary support locking weldment and an electric control component, the sliding ceiling is additionally arranged in front of the platform of the passenger boarding ladder, so that the windproof and rainproof requirements of the top and the two sides of the passenger ladder platform entering and exiting a cabin door can be met, the use requirements of passengers in front of the cabin door can be met, meanwhile, the width of the ceiling does not exceed the width of a whole vehicle, the front-back sliding stroke is large, the weight is low, use difficulty is avoided, and the cost is controllable. Besides, the shape of the ladder body and the shape of the awning are matched with each other, the overall appearance is coordinated, in addition, the sliding ceiling can adopt two operation modes of electric driving and manual driving, and manual locking is needed after the sliding ceiling is driven, so that the use standard requirements of civil aviation equipment can be met.

An aerial vehicle has a passenger cabin for receiving at least one passenger, a load-bearing structure beneath the cabin, and a propulsion system including a number of propulsion units, which propel the aerial vehicle for powered flight and vertical take-off and landing (VTOL). The propulsion units are preferably carried by support arms attached to the load-bearing structure and extending upwards therefrom so as to support the propulsion units at a level above the cabin. The aerial vehicle is preferably reconfigurable to a compact configuration after landing, with at least some of the propulsion units overlapping the cabin and / or each other, while still allowing passenger transfer in and out of the vehicle, thereby facilitating efficient use of space for implementing a vertiport.

An installation comprises a floating platform to facilitate mooring, payload transfer and support operations for waterborne lighter-than-air aircraft such as airships and hybrid lift air vehicles. A floating platform, anchored from below, is equipped with a centrally mounted mooring mast (2). A waterborne aircraft (8) can be secured by attaching its nose to the central mooring mast via an articulated coupling that leaves the aircraft (8) free to rotate in any direction necessary to align with prevailing wave and wind forces. Additionally, the platform includes a rotatable deck and jetty structure (3, 4) incorporating one or more hinged boarding ramps (5) that are arranged to turn freely about the centre of the platform and so maintain heading alignment with a moored aircraft, whilst providing a secure access path (13) between a service boat (12) and the moored aircraft (8), irrespective of movements induced by wave and wind forces.