Aerovironment, Inc.

Alexander Andryukov

Matthew Todd Keennon

Karl Robert Klingebiel

Bart Dean Hibbs

Carlos Thomas Miralles

Guan Hua Su

John McNeil

John Peter Zwaan

Henry Thome Won

An unmanned aerial vehicle launch tube that has a tube, a sabot disposed in an interior of said tube, said sabot having a first clasp tab, and a clasp detachably coupled to said first clasp tab and contacting an inner circumferential wall of said tube so that said clasp is rotationally constrained by the inner circumferential wall and said first clasp tab.

System for detachably coupling an unmanned aerial vehicle within a launch tube

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. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) launch tube that comprises a tethered sabot configured to engage a UAV within a launcher volume defined by an inner wall, the tethered sabot dimensioned to provide a pressure seal at the inner wall and tethered to the inner wall, and wherein the tethered sabot is hollow having an open end oriented toward a high pressure volume and a tether attached within a hollow of the sabot and attached to the inner wall retaining the high pressure volume or attach to the inner base wall. A system comprising a communication node and a launcher comprising an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in a pre-launch state configured to receive and respond to command inputs from the communication node.

Systems and devices for remotely operated unmanned aerial vehicle report-suppressing launcher with portable RF transparent launch tube

Heavier-than-air, aircraft having flapping wings, e.g., ornithopters, where angular orientation control is effected by variable differential sweep angles of deflection of the flappable wings in the course of sweep angles of travel and/or the control of variable wing membrane tension.

Air vehicle flight mechanism and control method

A flapping wing driving apparatus includes at least one crank gear capstan rotatably coupled to a crank gear, the at least one crank gear capstan disposed radially offset from a center of rotation of the crank gear; a first wing capstan coupled to a first wing, the first wing capstan having a first variable-radius drive pulley portion; and a first drive linking member configured to drive the first wing capstan, the first drive linking member windably coupled between the first variable-radius drive pulley portion and one of the at least one crank gear capstan; wherein the first wing capstan is configured to non-constantly, angularly rotate responsive to a constant angular rotation of the crank gear.

Air vehicle flight mechanism and control method for non-sinusoidal wing flapping

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. The sabot is hollow, and the expandable skirt has a circumferential skirt protrusion and is configured to provide a pressure seal with the inner circumferential wall of the launch tube. The system further comprises a clasp detachably coupled to the first clasp tab and contacting the inner circumferential wall of the launch tube.

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 (). An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) launch tube () that comprises a tethered sabot () configured to engage a UAV within a launcher volume defined by an inner wall, the tethered sabot () dimensioned to provide a pressure seal at the inner wall and tethered to the inner wall, and wherein the tethered sabot () is hollow having an open end oriented toward a high pressure volume and a tether () attached within a hollow () of the sabot () and attached to the inner wall retaining the high pressure volume or attach to the inner base wall (). A system comprising a communication node (-) and a launcher () comprising an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in a pre-launch state configured to receive and respond to command inputs from the communication node (-).

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Alexander Andryukov