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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 12, 2013
Applicant:

Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd., Lod, IL;

Inventors:

Guy Dekel, Kazir, IL;

Lior Zivan, Hadera, IL;

Yoav Efraty, Tel Aviv, IL;

Amit Wolff, Zur Moshe, IL;

Avner Volovick, Petach Tikva, IL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B64C 27/52 (2006.01); B64C 29/00 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2006.01); G05D 1/10 (2006.01); G05D 1/04 (2006.01); G05D 1/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 27/52 (2013.01); B64C 29/0033 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); G05D 1/042 (2013.01); G05D 1/0808 (2013.01); G05D 1/0858 (2013.01); G05D 1/102 (2013.01); B64C 2201/021 (2013.01); B64C 2201/042 (2013.01); B64C 2201/086 (2013.01); B64C 2201/104 (2013.01); B64C 2201/162 (2013.01); B64C 2201/165 (2013.01); B64C 2201/187 (2013.01);
Abstract

A control system configured to control an acceleration of an air vehicle which comprises a tiltable propulsion unit that is tiltable to provide a thrust whose direction is variable at least between a general vertical thrust vector direction and a general longitudinal thrust vector direction with respect to the air vehicle, the control system comprising: (a) an input interface for receiving information indicative of a monitored airspeed of the air vehicle; and (b) a control unit, configured to issue controlling commands to a controller of the tiltable propulsion unit for controlling the acceleration of the air vehicle.


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