B64C 1/063
Folding or collapsing to reduce overall dimensions
Official title: {Folding or collapsing to reduce overall dimensions, e.g. foldable tail booms}
B64C1/063 (Folding or collapsing to reduce overall dimensions) appears on 27 US grants and 22 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64C- Granted patents
- 27
- Published applications
- 22
- Assignees
- 17
- Inventors
- 41
- Latest grant
- 24 Mar 2026
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| 2024 | 4 | 9 |
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Telescoping tail assemblies for use on aircraft24 Jun 2025US 12,337,960 B2Textron Innovations Inc.
- Dual engine vertical take off and landing collapsible fixed wing aircraft13 May 2025US 12,296,968 B2Anduril Industries, Inc.
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- Dual engine vertical take off and landing collapsible fixed wing aircraft8 Aug 2024US 2024/0262489 A1Anduril Industries, Inc.
- Compact personal flight vehicle8 Aug 2024US 2024/0262499 A1
- Connectors and joints for dual engine vertical take off and landing collapsible fixed wing aircraft8 Aug 2024US 2024/0262519 A1Anduril Industries, Inc.
- Assembly for dual engine vertical take off and landing collapsible fixed wing aircraft8 Aug 2024US 2024/0262529 A1Anduril Industries, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Auxiliary power system for rotorcraft with folding propeller arms and crumple zone loading gear26US 11,059,598 B2Moog Inc. · 2021
- Releasable coupling for a helicopter tail rotor power transmission line10US 6,050,521 AFinmeccanica S.p.A. · 2000
- Rotary wing aircraft with a multiple beam tail10US 9,592,899 B2Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GmbH · 2017
- Tail rotor control cable-pylon fold accommodation5US 4,245,801 AUnited Technologies Corporation · 1981
- Parasite aircraft for airborne deployment and retrieval4US 11,053,008 B2Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. · 2021