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US 10,858,101 B2Granted
Device and system for propelling a passenger
AssigneeZiph20
InventorFrankie Zapata
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Abstract
The invention relates to a propulsion device comprising a platform that is arranged so as to accommodate a passenger and cooperates with a thrust unit comprising a main nozzle, advantageously oriented from the bow to the stern of the device, and two secondary nozzles that are lateral and are positioned essentially at the bow of the propulsion device. The secondary nozzles are mounted so as to be mobile about a transverse axis so as to be moved by actuators controlled by a processing unit that implements a method for controlling the secondary nozzles, thus providing automatic control assistance to the passenger.
Claims5
Propulsion device comprising:
- a platform;
- at least two nozzles supplied with pressurized fluid, said nozzles being mounted movably, each about a transverse axis of said propulsion device, said axis being normal to a first median plane of the propulsion device, said first median plane separating a left half from a right half of said propulsion device, to deliver said pressurized fluid in respective fluid directions lying in distinct second median planes, parallel to said first median plane of the propulsion device;
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- an actuator associated with each nozzle that causes a rotation, about a transverse axis of the propulsion device, of the fluid expulsion direction of the respective nozzle in one of said second median planes;
- wherein the actuators that are respectively associated with the nozzles are controlled by electric commands, said propulsion device further comprising a processing unit designed to generate said electric commands from a control instruction and/or from a baseline determined by one or more configuration parameters.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.