Rotorcraft landing device
AssigneeZero Corporation
InventorYouichi Suzuki
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Abstract
A drone loaded with a package takes off from a takeoff device and uses a GPS system to fly to a user house that is a delivery destination of the package as the destination. Further, when the drone approaches the user house that is the destination, the flight of the drones is switched from autonomous navigation using the GPS system to remote control performed by a landing device and an in-house control device installed in the user house. The drone lands on the landing device by remote control from the landing device and the in-house control device, separates the package, and then returns to the warehouse using the GPS system and lands on the takeoff device.
Claims7
A rotorcraft landing device comprising:
- an opening/closing mechanism including a landing portion on which a rotorcraft lands;
- a position recognition portion that recognizes a position of the rotorcraft with respect to the landing portion;
- a remote control portion that remotely controls, on a basis of a result of recognition performed by the position recognition portion, the rotorcraft such that the rotorcraft not provided with an image capturing function lands on the landing portion;
- and
- a movable member capable of taking a first posture of extending vertically upward from a periphery of the landing portion and a second posture of extending further to an outside from the periphery of the landing portion,
- wherein
- the landing portion is formed in a portion that is inside the opening/closing mechanism when the opening/closing mechanism is closed,
- the landing portion takes a horizontal posture at a position a space above which is open when the opening/closing mechanism is open,
- the movable member takes the first posture when the opening/closing mechanism is closed,
- the movable member takes the second posture when the opening/closing mechanism is open and the rotorcraft lands on the landing portion, and
- in a state in which the movable member is in contact with a load released from the rotorcraft that has landed on the landing portion, the movable member is movable in such a direction as to move the load to a position closer to a center of the landing portion.
A rotorcraft landing device comprising:
- a landing portion on which a rotorcraft lands;
- a position recognition portion that recognizes a position of the rotorcraft with respect to the landing portion;
- and
- a remote control portion that remotely controls, on a basis of a result of recognition performed by the position recognition portion, the rotorcraft such that the rotorcraft not provided with an image capturing function lands on the landing portion;
- an opening/closing mechanism;
- and
- a movable member capable of taking a first posture of extending vertically upward from a periphery of the landing portion and a second posture of extending further to an outside from the periphery of the landing portion,
- wherein
- the landing portion is accommodated in an inner space when the opening/closing mechanism is closed,
- a space above the landing portion is open when the opening/closing mechanism is open,
- the movable member takes the first posture when the opening/closing mechanism is closed,
- the movable member takes the second posture when the opening/closing mechanism is open and the rotorcraft lands on the landing portion, and
- in a state in which the movable member is in contact with a load released from the rotorcraft that has landed on the landing portion, the movable member is movable in such a direction as to move the load to a position closer to a center of the landing portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.