Portable UAV Housing With Wind-Porous Landing Protection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing UAV delivery services face challenges such as high operational costs, labor-intensive manual provisioning, and inefficiencies in delivering goods quickly and cost-effectively, with UAV facilities requiring costly modifications and being susceptible to weather conditions and wind interference during landing and takeoff.

Innovation Solution

A transportable UAV facility with a wind-reducing structure, such as wind-reducing netting or an erectable wind-porous structure, that allows for outdoor use without modifying buildings, includes a housing for UAVs and a landing area, and can be moved between locations, featuring a wind-reducing netting or erectable structure to mitigate wind impact during UAV operations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If UAV facilities are installed within buildings, then UAV operations are protected from weather conditions, but extensive building modifications are required which are costly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprotection from weather conditionsVSAvoidbuilding modification cost

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a portable housing structure as an intermediary between the UAV and the building environment. This housing provides weather protection and operational support without requiring building modifications, effectively mediating between the need for protected operations and the constraint of avoiding costly construction changes

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The invention changes the operational parameters by moving from fixed building-integrated facilities to portable, relocatable housing units. This parameter change allows the system to maintain weather protection while eliminating the need for permanent building modifications

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If manual provisioning is used to load packages onto UAVs, then flexibility in handling is maintained, but labor intensity and delivery time increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvehandling flexibilityVSAvoiddelivery speed

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The housing incorporates automated package loading mechanisms that enable the system to load packages onto UAVs without human intervention. The UAVs can autonomously retrieve packages from designated areas within the housing and prepare for takeoff,实现ing self-service operation that increases productivity while maintaining flexibility

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

Packages are pre-positioned within the housing in accessible locations before UAV arrival. This preliminary arrangement of packages allows for rapid automated retrieval and loading, eliminating the need for manual handling during the critical loading phase and thereby increasing delivery speed

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If wind-reducing structures are added to the UAV facility, then UAV operation safety is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveUAV operation safetyVSAvoidfacility structure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs wind-porous structures such as mesh screens or perforated panels within the housing to reduce wind speed and turbulence around the UAV landing and takeoff area. These porous materials effectively mitigate wind hazards while maintaining a relatively simple structural design compared to solid wind barriers

Inventive Principle:

Principle #31Porous materials

Solution Approach 2:

The housing utilizes flexible or semi-flexible wind-reducing elements that can adapt to the facility geometry without requiring complex rigid structural support systems. These thin film or mesh structures provide wind protection while keeping the overall facility design simple and portable

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The facility enhances UAV operation safety and efficiency by reducing wind speed and turbulence, enabling automated package loading, and allowing for flexible deployment and maintenance, thus overcoming the limitations of traditional UAV facilities.

Implementation Method 1

an erectable wind-porous structure for reducing wind speed across the landing area

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectWind speed reduction through porous structure: Porosity

Data Source

PatentEP3681802B1UAV facility

Publication Date: 2025.12.03 VALQARI HOLDINGS LLC

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AI summary

Disclosed are transportable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) facilities. The facilities comprise a housing for holding a UAV, where the housing defines a landing area for the UAV. The facilities also comprise a structure for reducing wind speed across the landing area.