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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2022
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Rikin Gupta, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Shardul Singh Panwar, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Taewoo Nam, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Deborah Bumgardner, Garden City, MI (US);
Yufei Zhu, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An aircraft can include a wing. A morphing member can be operatively connected to the wing. The morphing member can include a base and a shape memory material member operatively connected to the base. The base can be made of a flexible material. When the shape memory material member is activated, a shape of the morphing member can change. As a result, one or more aerodynamic characteristics of the aircraft can be changed. In some arrangements, the flexible material can be a fabric, and the shape memory material member can be a shape memory alloy wire.