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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:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2008
Applicant:
Brian D. Dennis, White Salmon, WA (US);
Inventor:
Brian D. Dennis, White Salmon, WA (US);
Assignee:
Insitu, Inc., Bingen, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 23/06 (2006.01); B64C 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Frangible fasteners and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, for example, an unmanned aircraft can include a fuselage portion, a wing portion, and a winglet carried by the wing portion. The aircraft can also include at least one frangible fastener coupling the winglet to the wing portion. The fastener is coupled to only partially release the winglet from the wing portion when a force on the winglet exceeds a threshold value.