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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 1979
Filed:
Aug. 19, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jeremy M Harris, Worthington, OH (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
244 22 ;
Abstract
An ornithopter which produces a large swept volume of the wings and essentially constant lift and includes a first and a second outer wing segment joined by an aerodynamically significant center wing segment having pivotal connections at the ends to the first and second outer wing segments, a driving mechanism for translating the center wing segment vertically with respect to the body of the ornithopter and links pivotally connected to the outer wing segments and to the body to cause the outer wing segments to rotate relative to the center wing segment as the center wing segment translates.