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US 11,027,826 B2Granted
Aircraft
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorMinoru Yoshimoto
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Abstract
An aircraft configured to drop an object includes a body, a cavity defined in the body and opening on a bottom face of the body, and a gas supply part configured to blow gas from vertically above to a blowing position on the object which is detachably mounted in the cavity. The blowing position is a position on a side closer to a nose of the aircraft with respect to a center of gravity of the object.
Claims4
An aircraft configured to drop an object, the aircraft comprising:
- a body;
- a cavity defined in the body, the cavity opening on a bottom face of the body;
- and
- a gas supply part configured to blow gas from vertically above to a blowing position on the object which is detachably mounted in the cavity, the blowing position being a position on a side closer to a nose of the aircraft with respect to a center of gravity of the object,
- wherein the gas supply part has:
- an inlet opening part that opens in the bottom face of the body on a side closer to the nose of the aircraft with respect to the cavity;
- an outlet opening part that opens in a vertically upper side of the cavity with respect to the object in the cavity;
- a gas supply channel connecting the inlet opening part and the outlet opening part with each other, the gas supply part being configured to take in air flowing along the bottom face of the body from the inlet opening part, and blow, from the outlet opening part, the air taken in onto the object;
- and
- an outlet wall part that is in the cavity and configured to receive the air blown out of the outlet opening part and deflect the air to the blowing position on the object.
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