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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7806371 | Remote control model aircraft with laser tag shooting action The present invention is a radio-controlled (RC) model aircraft system with laser tag capabilities. A transmitter and receiver are each installed in at least two separate RC aircrafts. The transmitter on one aircraft emits an infrared light beam to the receiver on t... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7793890 | Control system for an aircraft A control system for an aircraft includes a main unit and a separate auxiliary unit in communication with the main unit. The main unit includes an arm support allowing attachment to an arm of an operator. The main unit also includes a control stick supported by the ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7398946 | Power line sentry charging A rechargeable battery energized unmanned aerial vehicle having surveillance capability and an ability to clandestinely collect propulsion and other energy needs from a conveniently located and possibly enemy owned energy transmission line. Energy collection is by w... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7377470 | Wireless-controlled airplane A wireless-controlled airplane includes a flying unit and an on-ground controller which is connected to the flying unit through a communication section and flies the flying unit. The flying unit includes a body, a drive section installed on the body, a propulsion ap... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7367528 | Airport system for operations, safety, and security A new and improved airport concept is disclosed herein. Redesigned aircraft would be allowed to dock in the terminal instead of pulling up to loading bridge. The nose section of the aircraft would tilt upwards or to the side, either before or after the aircraft ente... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7318564 | Power line sentry charging A surveillance aircraft recharging system based on energy collection by magnetic induction from the current flowing in a randomly selected alternating current transmission line conductor. The charging energy originates in the magnetic field surrounding the current c... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7286913 | Navigating a UAV with telemetry through a socket Navigating a UAV, including receiving in a remote control device a user's selection of a GUI map pixel that represents a waypoint for UAV navigation, the pixel having a location on the GUI; mapping the pixel's location on the GUI to Earth coordinates of the waypoint... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7274978 | Electrical power supply system for unmanned aircraft A miniature, unmanned aircraft for acquiring digitized data, transmitting digitized data, or both, having an electrical supply system capable of sustained operation. The aircraft has a fuselage, a wing, a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine, a propeller,... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7270295 | Solar thermal aircraft A solar thermal powered aircraft powered by heat energy from the sun. A heat engine, such as a Stirling engine, is carried by the aircraft body for producing power for a propulsion mechanism, such as a propeller. The heat engine has a thermal battery in thermal cont... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7261257 | Cargo aircraft An aircraft for carrying at least one rigid cargo container includes a beam structure with a forward fuselage attached to the forward end of the beam structure and an empennage attached to the rearward end of the beam structure. Wings and engines are mounted relativ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262395 | Expendable sonobuoy flight kit with aerodynamically assisted sonobuoy separation A flight kit that can be retrofitted to existing navy sonobuoys. The preferred embodiment gives sonobuoys the capability of self-deployment, allowing them to be sent to a location remotely without the use of manned aircraft or recoverable unmanned air vehicles. This... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7237750 | Autonomous, back-packable computer-controlled breakaway unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) A modular unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having a fuselage, a nose cone, a left wing piece, a right wing piece, and a tail section. The tail section and nose cone each join to the fuselage through mating bulkhead structures that provide quick connection capability wh... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7229046 | Servo mounting system for direct drive of an aircraft control surface This invention is a servo mounting system, which allows a servo with a rotating output shaft to directly power an aircraft control surface. A specially designed servo mount securely positions the servo with the central axis of its rotational output shaft on, and axi... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228232 | Navigating a UAV with obstacle avoidance algorithms Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for navigating a UAV that include piloting the UAV, under control of a navigation computer, in accordance with a navigation algorithm. While piloting the UAV, embodiments include reading from the GPS recei... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224370 | System and method for communication among embedded devices using visual images A system and method for wireless communication among embedded devices using visual images. More specifically, a signal receiving device uses a visual recording device to locate the signal display screen of a signal transmitting device by employing an alternating ima... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7219861 | Guidance system for radio-controlled aircraft A method and system are described for controlling the flight pattern of a remote controlled aircraft. The system includes a microcontroller that is linked to an accelerometer for determining the attitude of the aircraft and modifying signals to the aircraft's flight... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7210654 | Unmanned airborne reconnaissance system An unmanned airborne reconnaissance system, the unmanned airborne reconnaissance system including a lightweight, portable, powered aircraft and a foldable launch rail, the aircraft, in a broken down condition and the launch rail in a broken down condition fitable in... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7195208 | Multi-device controller for model aircraft Control system for radio-controlled aircraft. The control system includes a control master for simultaneously controlling a group of flight control means, for example, a group of ailerons. A control bar is slidably mounted in the control master and connected to a se... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7121506 | Remotely controlled model airplane having deflectable centrally biased control surface A remotely controlled model airplane includes a receiver responsive to signals from a transmitter to control the direction of flight of the model airplane. The receiver, powered by a battery, demodulates the signal transmitted by the transmitter to selectively energ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7110866 | Security enhanced automatic pilot system for air vehicles A security enhanced automatic pilot system for an air vehicle. Upon a change of trajectory for an air vehicle during flight, the pilot is requested to confirm the change in trajectory. Through the placement of the pilot's finger on a fingerprint sensor, messages can... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7099752 | Safelander SAFELANDER provides a method of safely operating aircraft, equipped with a Flight Control Unit, Instrument Landing System, and Autopilot, remotely on the ground and/or in congested airspace. The remote pilot, who can concurrently control a plurality of operational a... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7083139 | Method for guiding a rocket Method for guiding a rocket (1) to a target, wherein, the rocket (1) being equipped with automatic guiding means with an image-formation device (10) and means for correction of the trajectory (11): the t... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7078666 | Wireless power and data transmission A method of transmitting data in a wireless power transmission system comprising a power transmitter including a first and a second light source and means for directing the emitted light. The second light source is used for transmitting, parallel and as low-intensit... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7073750 | Propulsion system for model airplane An improved structure and method for powering the flight of a model airplane by positioning the motors and propellers on the back side of the top wings of an airplane using a single or double-deck wing design so that the propellers and motors of the airplane are bet... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7039367 | Communications using unmanned surface vehicles and unmanned micro-aerial vehicles A communications system and method utilizes an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) capable of collecting data about an environment in which the USV resides. At least one micro-aerial vehicle (MAV), equipped for unmanned flight after a launch thereof, is mounted on the US... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7024340 | Automatic collection manager A method for the automatic collection of surveillance information by an unmanned air vehicle comprises the steps of receiving an automatic collection requirements message, determining a route for gathering requested information about a target in accordance with a co... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7014141 | Unmanned airborne reconnaissance system An unmanned airborne reconnaissance system, the unmanned airborne reconnaissance system including a lightweight, portable, powered aircraft and a foldable launch rail, the aircraft, in a broken down condition and the launch rail in a broken down condition fitable in... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6995688 | Method and apparatus for thwarting attempts to hijack aircraft and for responding to other aircraft emergencies Apparatus and method are provided for detecting and responding to aircraft emergencies and, in particular, thwarting attempts to hijack an aircraft including the storage in aircraft computer memory of a pattern of aircraft flight characteristics assumed to be unique... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6908061 | Airship system An airship system according to the invention has an airship (110), a base station (120), and at least three measurement points. The airship (110) emits ultrasonic waves upon receiving an instruction from the base station (120). Measuremen... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6898492 | Self-contained flight data recorder with wireless data retrieval A flight recorder designed for small aircraft captures various onboard flight data in real-time and stores it in non-volatile memory. Recorded data includes aircraft's instantaneous position, altitude, attitude, engine RPM, G forces, flap position, cockpit voice and... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6857601 | Airship system An airship system according to the invention has an airship (110), a base station (120), and at least three measurement points. The airship (110) emits ultrasonic waves upon receiving an instruction from the base station (120). Measuremen... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6847865 | Miniature, unmanned aircraft with onboard stabilization and automated ground control of flight path A miniature, unmanned aircraft for acquiring and/or transmitting data, capable of automatically maintaining desired airframe stability while operating by remote directional commands. The aircraft comprises a fuselage and a wing, a piston engine and propeller, a fuel... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6817573 | Aircraft An aircraft 1 comprising interchangeable wings 5 detachedly connected to a fuselage 3, each wing 5 containing the fuel and flight systems 13,15 for engines 7 mounted to the wings 5, so that the fuselage 3 need ... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6789768 | Bordered flying tool Differential Global Positioning System receivers (60) are located at the corners of a confined zone and receive signals from Global Positioning System satellites (62). The Differential Global Positioning System receivers (60) aid an aircraft ( | 09/14/2004 |
| 6735501 | Satellite commanding using remotely controlled modulation of satellite on-board telemetry parameters A satellite command system and method that provides satellite commanding using remotely-controlled modulation of telemetry parameters on-board a satellite. Software is provided on each of the redundant processor units that creates separate DMA command input pathways... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6694228 | Control system for remotely operated vehicles for operational payload employment A control system for a UAV includes control translations which maximize operational employment of the UAV payload. By determining spatial references, and then using the references to transform the control stick commands, the operator treats the UAV as a p... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6638017 | Constant rotational speed propeller for model aircrafts A control device for use in unmanned model aircraft for a constant speed propeller is disclosed. The device comprises a propulsion engine coupled to the propeller. The rotational speed of the propulsion engine is regulated through an automatic change of t... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6626397 | Autonomous flying wing An unmanned flying vehicle comprises an autonomous flying wing having at least two wing portions arranged substantially symmetrically about a center portion. Each wing portion is pivotally attached to each adjoining portion such that the wing portions are... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6615165 | Cable connections between an unmanned aircraft and a detachable data handling module A power and communications connection arrangement for a miniature, unmanned aircraft having data handling capability. The aircraft has a microprocessor for managing flight control, a GPS receiver, a communications radio frequency transceiver, and data han... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6507776 | Autopilot for aircraft having automatic descent function in the event of cabin depressurization An emergency control system permits an aircraft to recover from a catastrophic loss of cabin pressure even if the pilot becomes incapacitated before he is able to activate an emergency oxygen system. An autopilot system is programmed for rapid descent, in... | 01/14/2003 |
