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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2014
Aerovironment, Inc., Monrovia, CA (US);
Jason Allen Firanski, Simi Valley, CA (US);
Justin Bates McAllister, Simi Valley, CA (US);
Ronald Howard Olch, Van Nuys, CA (US);
Lane Dennis Dalan, Simi Valley, CA (US);
Emil Ghapgharan, Burbank, CA (US);
AEROVIRONMENT, INC., Simi Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
A motor assembly that includes a motor () having a rotatable shaft, a hub coupled to the rotatable shaft, the hub having a propeller indexer to receive a propeller (), when the propeller is present, a sensor trigger rotatable with the shaft () and positioned at a propeller offset angle θfrom the propeller indexer, and a sensor coupled to the motor and positioned to detect the sensor trigger so that the propeller indexer may be positioned at the propeller offset angle θfrom the sensor through rotation of the shaft so that said sensor is proximate to the sensor trigger.