Class 244/154 - Airplane type

Subclass of Class 244 - Aeronautics and astronautics
Definition: Kites having the appearance of airplanes.
No. of patents: 34
Last issue date: 03/04/2008

Number	Title	Issue Date
7338011	Method making it possible to prevent vibration of a rudder of an aircraft and aircraft using this method A method for preventing vibration of a rudder of an aircraft may have, on a lateral aerodynamic surface of the aircraft's rudder, a protruding aerodynamic element capable of generating an aerodynamic effect tending to rotate the rudder about its articulation axis. A...	03/04/2008
7183663	Precisely controlled flying electric generators One or more tethered platforms, each having three or more, mill rotors, are operated at altitudes in relatively high winds to generate electricity. These windmill kites use one or more electro-mechanical tethers on each platform. Their position, attitude and orienta...	02/27/2007
7168657	Toy helicopter landing skid structure A toy helicopter landing skid structure includes an upper support stand, a propping member and a bottom stand. The upper support stands are connected to the bottom of a helicopter airframe, and the propping member is connected to the bottom of each upper support sta...	01/30/2007
7119665	Sound generator for a kite A sound generator including a mounting clip for attachment to a kite frame. A support arm is secured to, and projects from, the mounting clip. The support arm has a distal end remote from the mounting clip. A pivot mechanism is secured to the distal end of the suppo...	10/10/2006
7109598	Precisely controlled flying electric generators III One or more tethered platforms, each having three or more; mill rotors, are operated at altitudes in relatively high winds to generate electricity. These windmill kites use one or more electro-mechanical tethers on each platform. Their position, attitude and orienta...	09/19/2006
7014149	Traction kite design An arch style traction kite which includes a wing or wing envelope which has a leading edge which, when viewed in plan with the wing or envelope laid in a horizontal plane, is concave in a centre section of the wing or envelope and straight or convex in plan near th...	03/21/2006
6955325	Delta kite with flight stabilizing, air-passing ring structure A kite has a generally delta shaped sail and supporting frame and has increased flight stability through locally increased drag realized by providing an air-passing ring structure in a plane adjacent the kite sail. The ring structure is formed from continued extents...	10/18/2005
6917862	Singularity escape/avoidance steering logic for control moment gyro systems A new steering logic based on a mixed weighted two-norm and least squares optimization solution overcomes a deficiency of being trapped in the momentum saturation singularities. The new steering logic utilizes an additional weighting matrix, W, in conjunction with d...	07/12/2005
6905096	Kite with planar aerodynamic surface A kite system including a base, a substantially exposed substructure coupled to the base to flex the base, and one or more masts and sails coupled to the base. ...	06/14/2005
6854690	Aircraft kite A kite in the shape of an aircraft having one or more wings. The number of wings can vary due to novel V-shaped connection members employed together with strut rod members cut to predetermined lengths. The connection members are preformed V-shaped connectors slidabl...	02/15/2005
6676085	Kite A kite has a support frame and a waterproof fabric covering the support frame. The support frame has a levelling rod, a center spine passing through the levelling rod, a head rod disposed on a front of the center spine, a hollow joint disposed on the cent...	01/13/2004
6663050	Aircraft kite A kite in the shape of an aircraft having one or more wings. The number of wings can vary due to novel V-shaped connection members employed together with strut rod members cut to predetermined lengths. The connection members are preformed V-shaped connect...	12/16/2003
6598833	Aircraft kite A kite in the shape of an aircraft having one or more wings. The number of wings can vary due to novel V-shaped connection members employed together with strut rod members cut to predetermined lengths. The connection members are preformed V-shaped connect...	07/29/2003
6450852	Glider toy A glider toy for entertainment purposes. The glider toy includes a housing that includes an upper plate section and a lower plate section. The upper plate section has a substantially circular shape. The lower plate section is generally crescent-shaped. A ...	09/17/2002
6290178	Internal support structure for a kite An improved shape-retaining support structure is provided for the fuselage of a windsock style kite. An inextensible strap member is also provided between the wings of the kite to transfer wing loads through the windsock body without distorting its shape....	09/18/2001
6290179	Airplane kites and method A scale model airplane kite made of STYROFOAM, an expanded rigid polystyrene plastic foam, and having reinforcing members, rods, dowels, pegs, pins, skewers, or the like embedded in the foam at stress points and oriented to counteract stress forces. These...	09/18/2001
6179248	Aircraft An aircraft is composed of two elongated inflated, flexible tubes diverging from each other from a nose of the aircraft toward a trailing edge. First and second membranes span the upper and lower surfaces of the tubes respectively to provide upper and low...	01/30/2001
6003816	3D kite A 3D kite includes two upright rods mutually connected with each other with a cloth strip or a rope, a horizontal rod fixed with lower ends of the two upright rod, a sail attached on an outer side of each upright rod and kept secured by means of an insert...	12/21/1999
5669803	Kick glider toy A glider toy apparatus including a body member made of a resilient material, a wing member having a length greater than a width of the body member, and a weight member secured to the body member forward of the wing member. The wing member has a greater de...	09/23/1997
5573208	Paper kite with frame A kite of the type that comprises a main frame with longitudinal rods (10, 12, 13) and transverse rods (11, 11'), has a secondary frame comprising rods known as "whiskers" (2). These rods (2) are extended to meet at a junction point (22) located in the me...	11/12/1996
5556057	Variable geometry kite A controllable kite, which changes its geometry and aerodynamic form in flight, in response to control inputs from control handles and control lines, enabling smooth stable high-speed flight as well as extreme low-speed agility and the ability to fly in a...	09/17/1996
5520565	Toy flying disc A flying toy disc with a pivoted fuselage, the disc flying spinning in flight upon being thrust with a forward spinning motion, the disc having a particular transverse configuration which taken with the pivoted fuselage tends to stabilize the flight of th...	05/28/1996
5076516	High drag airfoil apparatus Disclosed are airfoil structures which provide two distinct mean centers of lift and high induced drag. Also disclosed are aircraft structures employing such high-lift high-drag airfoils for both the lifting wing and the horizontal stabilizer with the cen...	12/31/1991
5044576	Parawing with an automatic canopy withdrawing mechanism Disclosed is a parawing with an automatic canopy withdrawing mechanism having a canopy, a frame to which the canopy is fastened and on which a pilot can be carried, a propeller mounted on the frame, and a plurality rows of suspension lines interconnecting...	09/03/1991
4911384	Winged kite A winged kite (10) comprises an elongated body (12) attached on a bottom side of a flat sheet lift member (14) forming right and left wings (44, 46) and a diverging flat tail (48). An elongated flexible spar extends between respective outer end portions (...	03/27/1990
4884765	Highly manoeuvrable control line kite A control line kite has a flexible cover over a framework of spars including a longitudinal spar and a transverse spar. The longitudinal spar carries a weight which is adjustable along the length of the spar between the nose of the kite and the point of i...	12/05/1989
4846424	Controllable airfoil kite A ram-air airfoil stunt kite has its upper forward edge provided with two stiffener members that provide a rounded leading edge and are connected together by a flexible joint. Two operator-held control strings are connected to bridles which are, in turn, ...	07/11/1989
4781344	Airplane kite An airplane kite shaped to resemble a jet powered airplane, formed of lightweight plastic foam material, or the like, having a fuselage and vertical stabilizer shaped to resemble the side view of a jet airplane, and a wing and horizontal stabilizer both s...	11/01/1988
4486669	Wind generator kite system This invention relates to a new system for generating electrical energy by wind power. The wind generator is suspended in the air like a kite by wind currents and is attached to the earth by a high strength cable to which are attached electric cables and ...	12/04/1984
4251040	Wind driven apparatus for power generation Wind driven apparatus for the production of power at a ground location includes an aerodynamic lift generating vehicle capable of maintaining a stable airborne orientation, a tether linking the vehicle to a ground location, mechanical power generating equ...	02/17/1981
4168816	Airplane shaped kite A kite, comprising a substantially arrow-shaped body; a wing framework mounted to and divided by the body into two quadrilateral sections; a cover, respectively spanning loosely across and mounted to two opposite sides of each division of the wing framewo...	09/25/1979
4159087	Glider kite A toy glider kite capable of effectively functioning as a kite when held by a tow line and as a glider when released for free flying. The glider kite comprises a pair of flexible wing sections which are pivotal relative to one another between kite and nor...	06/26/1979
4154017	Tethered flying toy A ground controlled tethered flying autogiro toy utilizing a single auto rotating wing for its sole means of aerodynamic lift. The wing is attached to a greatly simplified space frame structure that makes the toy capable of controllable aerobatic maneuver...	05/15/1979
3997136	Toy-kite airplane An airplane-like kite toy, which is designed to simulate an airplane in appearance and in flight characteristics, the toy having rotatable wings detachably mounted to a fuselage body in a novel manner wherein the wings are fixedly secured to a shaft, the ...	12/14/1976

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Class 244/154 - Airplane type