Flirtey Holdings, Inc.

Tom Bass

Matthew Sweeny

John R Foggia

Michel Fathallah

Kranthi Baddam

Henri Spaile

Joseph Rinaldi

Jess Hayden

John Johnson

Seaton Mckeon

Justin Wagemakers

David Hobby

Christopher Galassini

Disclosed is a technique for landing a drone using a parachute. The technique includes a parachute deployment system (PDS) that can deploy a parachute installed in a drone and land the drone safely. The parachute may be deployed automatically, e.g., in response to a variety of failures such as a free fall, or manually from a base unit operated by a remote user. For example, the PDS can determine the failure of the drone based on data obtained from an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a magnetometer and a barometer of the drone and automatically deploy the parachute if any failure is determined. In another example, the remote user can 'kill' the drone, that is, cut off the power supply to the drone and deploy the parachute by activating an onboard 'kill' switch from the base unit.

Parachute control system for an unmanned aerial vehicle

A package delivery mechanism (PDM) of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is described. The PDM includes a gravity activated locking mechanism to lock and unlock a package attached to the UAV based on the weight of the package. When the package is attached to a suspension member of the UAV, the locking mechanism automatically engages with the package and keeps the package locked to the suspension member, due to the weight of the package. When the package is lowered and reaches the ground, the weight of the package is offloaded from the suspension member, which enables the locking mechanism to be disengaged, thereby releasing the package.

Package delivery mechanism in an unmanned aerial vehicle

Parachute deployment system for an unmanned aerial vehicle

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Tom Bass