Joby Aero, Inc.

Joby Aviation, Inc.

Mixt Beverages, Inc.

Edward Stilson

JoeBen Bevirt

Alex Stoll

Gregor Veble Mikic

Robert Thodal

Joachim L Grenestedt

Drew Boggio

Ernest Matthew Villanueva

Austin Lawrence Newman

Gregor Veble Mikić

Michael Patrick Tucker

Matthew Clyde Cusimano

Pranay Sinha

Ahsan Mehmood

Percy Pei

Christopher Cochran

Baixi Pei

Edward Thomas Sweet

Alec Morgan Clark

Gregory Cole DiMaggio

An aerial vehicle configured with air intake in an otherwise higher drag location. In some aspects, the aerial vehicle is a vertical take-off and landing aircraft. The aircraft may intake the air to provide air to a hydrogen fuel cell system within the aircraft. The aircraft may have electric motor driven rotor assemblies which provide thrust for both vertical take-off and landing and forward flight operations. The electric motor driven rotor assemblies may be powered by electric power from the fuel cell system. The air intake may be on the forward portion of a nacelle placed in what would be a high drag location, such as at the junction of the wings and the fuselage, or the junction of the vertical stabilizers and the fuselage, for example.

High efficiency air intake system and aircraft using same

An extension linkage for a wing flap can include at least one arm that includes two elements connected by a joint. The linkage can include an actuation mechanism, additional arms and/or each arm can include more than two elements, tie rods and/or cross pieces connecting two or more arms, and any other suitable components. The linkage functions to translate and rotate a body attached to one end of the arm relative to a primary structure attached to a second end of the arm. The linkage resides entirely within a space defined by the upper skin and the lower skin of the wing rearward of the mounting when in a retracted configuration.

Three-dimensional extension linkage for aircraft

An aircraft including an airframe and a plurality of propulsion assemblies coupled to the airframe, wherein each propulsion assembly includes an electric motor, a propeller coupled to the electric motor, and a tilt mechanism that connects the propulsion assembly to the airframe and transforms the propulsion assembly between a forward configuration and a hover configuration; wherein the plurality of propulsion assemblies is transformable between a forward arrangement and a hover arrangement, wherein each of the plurality of propulsion assemblies is in the forward configuration in the forward arrangement, wherein each of the plurality of propulsion assemblies is in the hover configuration in the hover arrangement, wherein the spacing between at least two of the propellers of the plurality of propulsion assemblies changes between the forward arrangement and the hover arrangement.

Electric tiltrotor aircraft

An aircraft includes a battery pack mounted inside the aircraft, a vent coupled between the battery pack and a surface of the aircraft to at least partly define a vent path between the battery pack and the surface of the aircraft, and a burst membrane located in the vent path. The vent may be coupled to a rear upper portion of a wing or to an outboard side of a nacelle. The aircraft may also include a flexible coupling between the vent and the surface of the aircraft. The aircraft may also include a fairing over a vent outlet to provide a smooth surface for the vent outlet. The battery pack may include battery modules and an enclosure, the battery modules and the enclosure defining paths along which discharge from a thermal event can flow towards the vent.

Aircraft energy storage venting system

An aircraft includes a battery pack, an internal support structure to support the battery pack in the aircraft, a first bracket rigidly coupling the battery pack to the support structure, and a second bracket rotationally coupling the battery pack to the support structure. The first and second brackets may be located on opposite sides of the battery pack. The internal support structure may be located in a wing of the aircraft and the first and second brackets may be aligned in a fore-aft direction of the aircraft. The internal support structure may be located in a nacelle of the aircraft and the first and second brackets may be aligned along a transverse direction of the aircraft. The second bracket may include two hangers to support a mass of the battery pack in tension.

Aircraft energy storage mounting system

The 3D extension linkagecan include at least one arm that includes two elements connected by a joint. The linkage can include an actuation mechanism, additional arms and/or each arm can include more than two elements, tie rods and/or cross pieces connecting two or more arms, and any other suitable components. The linkagefunctions to translate and rotate a body attached to one end of the arm relative to a primary structure attached to a second end of the arm.

Three-dimensional extension linkage

An aerial vehicle adapted for vertical takeoff and landing using a set of wing tip mounted thrust producing elements for takeoff and landing. An aerial vehicle which is adapted to vertical takeoff with the wings in a horizontal flight attitude then transitions to a horizontal flight path. An aerial vehicle which uses different configurations of its wing tip mounted, VTOL enabling rotors to reduce drag in all flight modes.

Aerodynamically efficient lightweight vertical take-off and landing aircraft with multi-configuration wing tip mounted rotors

A container includes an upper chamber, a lower chamber, and a physical actuator, and may include chambers. Each chamber includes a different substance. Each chamber is sealed off from adjacent chambers and the atmosphere. At least one of the chambers is sealed at below atmospheric pressure, which helps hold that chamber in contact with one or more of the other chambers. When the physical actuator is activated, the seals between the chambers are opened to each other and atmosphere, which causes the substances to mix together in the chamber that was previously maintained at below atmospheric pressure. The change in pressure differential also assists in the mixing.

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Edward Stilson