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US 12,296,995 · App. 17/922,491 · Granted May 13, 2025

Flight vehicle

Inventor: Hideyuki Ogasawara (Ehime, JP)
Assignee: MATSUYAMA DRONE SERVICE CORPORATION
B64U20/83B64U10/13B64U30/12B64U30/293B64U50/30B64U50/19
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Patent No.
US 12,296,995
App. No.
17/922,491
Granted
May 13, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A flight vehicle includes a main body arranged at a center of the flight vehicle, a controller mounted on the main body, a plurality of arms extending radially outward from the main body and being spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction, with each arm having a motor and a propeller arranged at a radially outer tip of the arm, and wings that are separate from the main body. Each wing connects two adjacent arms of the plurality of arms, and the wings are attached at a constant distance between the main body and the propellers. The wings are positioned such that air flowing through a space between the main body and radially inner surfaces of the wings is slower than air flowing through a space between the propellers and radially outer surfaces of the wings.

Claims (10)

1. A flight vehicle comprising:

a main body arranged at a center of the flight vehicle;

a controller mounted on the main body;

a plurality of arms extending radially outward from the main body and being spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction, each arm having a motor and a propeller arranged at a radially outer tip of the arm; and

wings that are separate from the main body, each wing connecting two adjacent arms of the plurality of arms, wherein the wings are attached at a constant distance between the main body and the propellers,

wherein the wings are positioned such that air flowing through a space between the main body and radially inner surfaces of the wings is slower than air flowing through a space between the propellers and radially outer surfaces of the wings during flight of the flight vehicle.

2. The flight vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein each pair of adjacent arms of the plurality of arms are connected by a respective one of the wings such that the wings extend around an entirety of the main body relative to the circumferential direction.

3. The flight vehicle according to claim 1 , further comprising batteries mounted inside the wings, respectively.

4. The flight vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein each wing is configured to tilt toward a direction of travel of the flight vehicle.

5. The flight vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein a cross-sectional shape of each wing is an ellipse or a polygon.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 31, 2022
From: OGASAWARA, HIDEYUKI
To: MATSUYAMA DRONE SERVICE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 061598/0360 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2021-065002 · Feb 15, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230182933A1 · Jun 15, 2023
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