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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2015
Applicants:
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
National University Corporation Nagoya University, Aichi, JP;
Inventors:
Assignees:
MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITY, Aichi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G 1/40 (2006.01); B64G 1/24 (2006.01); F02K 9/76 (2006.01); F02K 9/80 (2006.01); F02K 9/96 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G 1/40 (2013.01); B64G 1/244 (2019.05); F02K 9/76 (2013.01); F02K 9/80 (2013.01); F02K 9/96 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vertical take-off and landing spacecraft includes a body, a plurality of engines provided in the body to produce a jet flow and generate thrust, an abnormal signal acquiring unit that acquires an abnormal signal indicative of a presence of an abnormal engine among the plurality of engines, and an engine control unit that outputs a stop signal that stops a specific engine among a plurality of operating engines based on the abnormal signal.