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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110315827 | Wing Extension Control Surface A tiltrotor aircraft includes a rotatable nacelle that supports a rotor assembly and is pivotally attached to the air-craft's fuselage. A wing extension attaches to an outboard section of the nacelle. The wing extension provides additional yaw control during helicopter ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110315806 | Modular and morphable air vehicle An unmanned air module includes one or more rotors, engines, a transmission and avionics. Any of several different ground modules may be attached to the air module. The air module may fly with and without the ground module attached. The ground module may be a vehicle gr... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110180673 | TAKING OFF AND LANDING AIRPLANE USING VARIABLE ROTARY WINGS This invention is regarding a VTOL aircraft that is designed to enable it to take off by generating lift through rotary wings like a helicopter and then moving forward; and when it flies at high speeds, it is able to use jet engines so that it can generate lift through ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110114797 | Fail-Operational Multiple Lifting-Rotor Aircraft A rotorcraft having multiple rotors, and wings that provide lift in forward flight, has a mechanical coupling between rotors that can be disengaged and optionally reengaged, during flight. The coupling, which can prevent a failure of one rotor from interfering with rota... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110036954 | Compound Aircraft with Autorotation A compound aircraft features variable incidence wings, a thruster, a rotor and a clutch connecting the engines to the rotor. Upon reaching a suitable forward speed, the control system of the compound aircraft unloads the rotor and disengages the clutch, disconnecting th... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110006166 | ROTARY WING VEHICLE A rotary wing vehicle includes a body structure having an elongated tubular backbone or core, and a counter-rotating coaxial rotor system having rotors with each rotor having a separate motor to drive the rotors about a common rotor axis of rotation. The rotor system is... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110001020 | QUAD TILT ROTOR AERIAL VEHICLE WITH STOPPABLE ROTORS The disclosed invention consists of several improvements to well known Quad Tilt-Rotor (QTR) aircraft. The first is that during a wing-borne flight, one pair of tilt-rotors, which can be substantially larger than the other pair, is feathered and stopped. This can promot... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100276549 | Fail-operational multiple lifting-rotor aircraft A rotorcraft having multiple rotors, and wings that provide lift in forward flight, has mechanical coupling between rotors that can be disengaged and optionally reengaged, during flight. The coupling can, which can prevent a failure of one rotor from interfering with ro... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100243821 | TAKING OFF AND LANDING AIRPLANE USING VARIABLE ROTARY WINGS This invention is regarding a VTOL aircraft that is designed to enable it to take off by generating lift through rotary wings like a helicopter and then moving forward; and when it flies at high speeds, it is able to use jet engines so that it can generate lift through ... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100243820 | TAKING OFF AND LANDING AIRPLANE USING VARIABLE ROTARY WINGS This invention is regarding a VTOL aircraft that is designed to enable it to take off by generating lift through rotary wings like a helicopter and then moving forward; and when it flies at high speeds, it is able to use jet engines so that it can generate lift through ... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100078526 | AIRCRAFT WITH A CONVERTIBLE FLIGHT SYSTEM The invention relates to an aircraft with a convertible flight system which can function as a helicopter and as an airplane and comprising a fuselage (1), a main vertical shaft rotor (2), propulsion means and moving wings (7) located on the lower pa... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100072325 | Forward (Upstream) Folding Rotor for a Vertical or Short Take-Off and Landing (V/STOL) Aircraft This is an improvement of the 1968 Trailing Rotor V/STOL aircraft (Ref. 1). Rotors are mounted on wing-tip pods which can be tilted from the vertical to the horizontal aft position. Rotors are then stopped in the axial-flow condition and indexed to an azimuth position, ... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100025543 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSFORMING UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE Methods and apparatus for a transforming aerial vehicle according to various aspects of the present invention may operate in conjunction with a launch system configured to rotate the aerial vehicle about its longitudinal axis. A lifting surface pivotally connected to th... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20090266941 | Combination Spar and Trunnion Structure for a Tilt Rotor Aircraft An aircraft is equipped with a spinnion coupling an inboard wing to a tilting nacelle. The spinnion is advantageously configured to extend across the nacelle from an inboard junction to an outboard junction, and terminates inside the inboard wing. This provides an effic... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090206208 | Reaction drive rotor/wing variable area nozzle In an exemplary variable area nozzle, a fixed duct section has an inlet and an outlet oriented approximately perpendicular to the inlet. A controllable nozzle member is disposed adjacent the outlet of the fixed duct section. The controllable nozzle member has an area th... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090045294 | Systems and Methods for Rotor/Wing Aircraft Systems and methods for rotor/wing aircraft are disclosed. In one embodiment, an aircraft includes an airframe, a high-lift canard and tail, a rotor/wing, a propulsion system, and a drive assembly. The drive assembly, which may include a radial inflow turbine, is config... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090038435 | SPLIT TORQUE GEARED POWER TRANSMISSIONS WITH COMPOSITE OUTPUT SHAFTS A light weight, split torque, geared power transmission having a reduced number of gears and useful for, e.g., transmitting power from an engine to the main rotor of a rotorcraft, includes a ring gear having a pair of oppositely facing angular bevel gears respectively f... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20070241228 | Compact Tiltrotor Pylon-Conversion Actuation System A tiltrotor aircraft having a wing and a rotatable pylon carried by the wing is disclosed. The pylon is secured to a pylon support spindle that extends into the wing. A link connects a radial portion of the pylon support spindle to a radial portion of a rotary actuator,... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070221779 | Aircraft Produced by Fixing Rapid Airflow Generation Wind Direction Changing Device Directly and Firmly to Side Surface or Wall Thereof To achieve mass transportation, freer flights, and safer services in an energy-saving manner by allowing the blowout direction of a shroud included rotor having the drive principle of linear motors that can freely change airflow to be changed freely to produce a device ... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070095970 | Rotor wing aircraft having an adjustable tail nozzle Aircraft including an airframe having a fuselage extending between a forward end and an aft end and a fixed wing extending laterally from the fuselage. The aircraft includes a power plant mounted on the airframe producing exhaust during operation. The aircraft includes ... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070095969 | Rotor wing aircraft having a bypassable radial inflow turbine Aircraft including an airframe having a fuselage extending between a forward end and an aft end. The aircraft further includes a power plant mounted on the airframe producing exhaust during operation. The aircraft also includes a rotor/wing including a plurality of blad... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20060266879 | Tandem rotor wing and tandem fixed wing aircraft Aircraft comprising an airframe having a fuselage, at least two fixed wing sets. A first fixed wing set of the fixed wing sets is positioned closer to a forward end of the fuselage than a second fixed wing set and the second fixed wing set is positioned closer to the af... | 11/30/2006 |
| 20050230518 | Aircraft An aircraft includes a fuselage with a circular airfoil body supported thereabove on a vertical drive shaft mechanism. The airfoil body includes an upper disk forming an upper surface of the body and a lower disk forming a lower surface of the body in which the upper an... | 10/20/2005 |
| 20050224633 | LOW-DRAG ROTOR/WING FLAP Rotor/wing aircraft having a low-drag flap are disclosed. In one embodiment, a rotor/wing aircraft includes an elongated blade having a body portion and a flap portion. The body portion has first and second edges and includes a non-symmetric portion proximate the second... | 10/13/2005 |
| 20050116086 | Wing assemblies for aircraft A rotary wing having a spar that flexes and crosses the axis of t the spar in two or more points. The spar mounts a flying surface extending spanwise and rotatable about the longitudinal axis of the spar without the transmission of flexural movement to the wing sheets. ... | 06/02/2005 |
