116 patents
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Utility
Compressed motor winding
23 Mar 20
In one possible embodiment, a motor winding is provided having a high density multi-conductor wire bundle with a compacted Litz wire bundle.
Wally Ewald Rippel, Zaher Abdallah Daboussi, Bradford M. Hori, Scott Garret Berman, Bart Dean Hibbs
Filed: 20 Nov 17
Utility
Elevon control system
9 Mar 20
A system comprising an aerial vehicle or an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured to control pitch, roll, and/or yaw via airfoils having resiliently mounted trailing edges opposed by fuselage-house deflecting actuator horns.
Tony Shuo Tao, Nathan Olson, Carlos Thomas Miralles, Robert Nickerson Plumb
Filed: 8 Feb 17
Utility
Residual current detecting (RCD) and ground impedance monitoring transformer and control methods
9 Mar 20
Systems, devices, and methods for a transformer including: a first drive winding (206) wound on a first core; a second drive winding wound on a second core; a sense winding wound across the first and second cores; and a compensation winding wound across the first and second cores; where one or more utility lines are threaded through a middle of the first and second cores, a common mode current in the one or more utility lines causes one or more pulses to appear on the sense winding, a current on the compensation winding is adjusted until the one or more pulses on the sense winding are cancelled out, and the common mode current on the one or more utility lines is the adjusted current on the compensation winding multiplied by a turn ratio between the compensation winding and the sense winding.
Peter Gabrielsson, Albert Joseph Flack, Scott Berman
Filed: 5 Apr 18
Utility
Cryogenic liquid tank
9 Mar 20
A hydrogen storage tank for a hydrogen fueled aircraft.
Alexander N. Brooks, Bart D. Hibbs, David R. Thompson
Filed: 26 Nov 17
Utility
Unmanned aerial vehicle drag augmentation by reverse propeller rotation
10 Feb 20
An air vehicle configured to augment effective drag to change the rate of descent of the air vehicle in flight via propeller shaft rotation direction reversal, i.e., thrust reversal.
Martyn Cowley, Matthew Todd Keennon
Filed: 26 Jul 15
Utility
Interactive weapon targeting system displaying remote sensed image of target area
20 Jan 20
Systems, devices, and methods for determining a predicted impact point of a selected weapon and associated round based on stored ballistic information, provided elevation data, provided azimuth data, and provided position data.
John C. McNeil, Earl Clyde Cox, Makoto Ueno, Jon Andrew Ross
Filed: 18 Feb 19
Utility
Inverted-landing aircraft
13 Jan 20
An aircraft defining an upright orientation and an inverted orientation, a ground station; and a control system for remotely controlling the flight of the aircraft.
Christopher E. Fisher, Thomas Robert Szarek, Justin B. McAllister, Pavel Belik
Filed: 17 Mar 18
Utility
Geographic survey system for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS)
13 Jan 20
A method of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operation, including: receiving from a customer a first data request, the first data request having: a first geographic coverage area; and a refresh rate for the first geographic coverage area; planning a first plurality of flight missions to accomplish the first data request; uploading flight missions data representing the first plurality of flight missions into a UAV pod; and deploying the UAV pod.
Christopher Eugene Fisher, Jason Sidharthadev Mukherjee, William Arden Lott
Filed: 12 Dec 17
Utility
Power and communication interface for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
30 Dec 19
A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system including: a rearward facing tang extending from a rear fuselage portion of a VTOL UAV; one or more metallic contacts disposed on an exterior surface of the tang; a UAV pod including a landing surface; and an opening disposed in the landing surface to receive the tang.
Christopher Eugene Fisher, Jason Sidharthadev Mukherjee, William Arden Lott
Filed: 14 Dec 17
Utility
System for protecting a rotatable shaft of a motor from excessive bending moments
16 Dec 19
A motor assembly that includes a motor having a motor casing, a rotatable shaft extending from said motor casing to a shaft length and a hub coupled to said rotatable shaft, the hub having a circumferential skid surface disposed immediately proximal to the motor casing and having a channel configured to seat a propeller, when a propeller is present, wherein a bending moment applied to the shaft through the hub results in the circumferential skid surface contacting said motor casing.
Emil Ghapgharan, Lane Dennis Dalan, Pavel Belik, Christopher Eugene Fisher, Austin Craig Gunder
Filed: 28 Aug 17
Utility
System for charging an electric vehicle (EV)
9 Dec 19
A method of charging an electric vehicle (EV) includes receiving a user's authentication code in an electric vehicle service equipment (EVSE) from a user's mobile device, comparing in the EVSE the user's authentication code to a whitelist having a plurality of authorized user authentication codes, and enabling an electric vehicle (EV) charging transaction serviced by the EVSE in response to the comparing of the user's authentication code to the whitelist so that a user's authentication code is authenticated to enable the EV charging transaction without concurrent access to an EVSE-related remote server.
Scott Ryan Shumaker, Lovlesh Tandon, Herman Joseph Steinbuchel, IV, Robert Salazar, Jr., Larry Hayashigawa
Filed: 28 Jan 18
Utility
Multimode unmanned aerial vehicle
2 Dec 19
A system comprising an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured to transition from a terminal homing mode to a target search mode, responsive to an uplink signal and/or an autonomous determination of scene change.
Carlos Thomas Miralles
Filed: 30 Aug 18
Utility
Small unmanned aerial vehicle (SUAV) shipboard recovery system
18 Nov 19
Systems, devices, and methods for impacting, by a small unmanned aerial vehicle (SUAV), a net having at least three sides; and converting the kinetic energy of the SUAV into at least one of: elastic potential energy of one or more tensioned elastic cords connected to at least one corner of the net, gravitational potential energy of a frame member connected to at least one corner of the net, rotational kinetic energy of the frame member connected to at least one corner of the net, and elastic potential energy of the frame member connected to at least one corner of the net.
John Peter Zwaan, Robert James Johnston, Cris James Cornell, Philip Martin Finn, Glenn Arnold Blevins, David Wayne Ganzer
Filed: 15 Jul 18
Utility
UAV payload module camera assembly and retraction mechanism
28 Oct 19
In one possible embodiment, a UAV payload module retraction mechanism is provided including a payload pivotally attached to a housing.
John Peter Zwaan, Pavel Belik, Manolis Dimotakis, Christopher J. D'Aquila
Filed: 12 Sep 18
Utility
Systems and devices for remotely operated unmanned aerial vehicle report-suppressing launcher with portable RF transparent launch tube
21 Oct 19
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) launch tube that comprises at least one inner layer of prepreg substrate disposed about a right parallelepiped aperture, at least one outer layer of prepreg substrate disposed about the right parallelepiped aperture, and one or more structural panels disposed between the at least one inner layer of prepreg substrate and the at least one outer layer of prepreg substrate.
Carlos Thomas Miralles, Guan H Su, Alexander Andryukov, John McNeil
Filed: 19 Sep 18
Utility
System for detachably coupling an unmanned aerial vehicle within a launch tube
14 Oct 19
A system comprising an unmanned aerial vehicle launch tube comprising a sabot disposed in an interior of the launch tube, the sabot having a first clasp tab and an expandable skirt.
Alexander Andryukov
Filed: 4 Dec 14