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Patent No.:

US 9308986 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 14, 2013

Floating mobile object and floating mobile system using the same

Applicant:

The Ritsumeikan Trust, Kyoto, JP;

Inventor:

Katsuya Kanaoka, Shiga, JP;

Assignee:

The Ritsumeikan Trust, Kyoto, JP;

Attorney:

Kirschstein, Israel, Schiffmiller & Pieroni, P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Justin Benedik

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 15/12 (2006.01); B63H 25/04 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2006.01); G05D 1/10 (2006.01); B63H 25/46 (2006.01); B63B 35/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 15/12 (2013.01); B63H 25/04 (2013.01); B63H 25/46 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); G05D 1/10 (2013.01); B63B 2035/008 (2013.01); B63H 2025/465 (2013.01); B64C 2201/027 (2013.01); B64C 2201/10 (2013.01); B64C 2201/146 (2013.01);
Abstract

A holonomic floating mobile object is operated under gravity and includes a main body and six or more thrusters for generating thrust by changing the momentum of a fluid. The six or more thrusters are controlled independently of one another such that the thrust is set at a desired value. The six or more thrusters are arranged in a fuselage coordinate system defined on the main body, such that the range in which a total thrust vector obtained by combining vectors of the thrust generated by all of the thrusters can be generated spans a six-dimensional space with three directions of translation and three directions of rotation. Incoming and outgoing flows to and from one of the thrusters are spaced apart from incoming and outgoing flows to and from the other thrusters and even apart from every other fuselage structure aside from that one thruster.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Kanaoka, Katsuya. (2016). Floating mobile object and floating mobile system using the same (U.S. Patent No. 9308986). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9308986

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