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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2024
The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Felipe Bohorquez, Cambridge, MA (US);
Francesco Giannini, Falls Church, VA (US);
The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides an electric propulsor. The electric propulsor has a propeller having a hub and blades extending from the hub. The blades are movable along respective flapping axes between a deployed position and a stowed position. The electric propulsor also has an actuator and an electric motor coupled with the hub and arranged to rotatably drive the propeller. Further, the electric propulsor has one or more processors configured to: receive an input indicating an azimuthal position of the blades; control the electric motor to align the blades with a target azimuthal position based at least in part on the input; and with the blades of the propeller arranged at the target azimuthal position, cause the actuator to translate a control rod coupled thereto and with the hub to actively fold or unfold the blades along the respective flapping axes of the blades.