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Patent No.:

US 12091173 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2022

Uav with distributed propulsion and blown control surfaces

Applicant:

Wing Aviation Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Adam Woodworth, San Jose, CA (US);

Giulia Pantalone, Redwood City, CA (US);

Michelle Suen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Luis Prado, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Wing Aviation LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:

Christensen O'Connor Johnson Kindness PLLC

Primary Examiner:

Medhat Badawi

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 39/02 (2023.01); B64C 1/12 (2006.01); B64C 5/02 (2006.01); B64C 11/20 (2006.01); B64U 10/25 (2023.01); B64U 30/10 (2023.01); B64U 30/20 (2023.01); B64U 101/60 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 39/024 (2013.01); B64C 1/12 (2013.01); B64C 5/02 (2013.01); B64C 11/20 (2013.01); B64U 10/25 (2023.01); B64U 30/10 (2023.01); B64U 30/20 (2023.01); B64U 2101/60 (2023.01);
Abstract

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a fuselage, a pair of fixed wings attached to the fuselage, a tail assembly attached to an aft portion of the fuselage and including a pair of stabilizers, a plurality of distributed propulsion units having first propellers that rotate about first rotational axes positioned below the fixed wings, and a plurality of tail propulsion units having second propellers that rotate about second rotational axes each positioned inline with one of the stabilizers. The first propellers are mounted fore of the fixed wings and the second propellers are mounted fore of a corresponding one of the stabilizers. Three or more of the distributed propulsion units are mounted to each of the fixed wings.

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