Payload module for stratospheric drone
AssigneeAirbus Defence and Space GmbH
InventorsPierre-Luc Georgy, Pere Roca
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Abstract
A payload module (1) of a stratospheric drone including: a casing (10), and a piece of optical equipment (20) comprising an optical axis, mounted in the casing, wherein the module being includes a mirror (40) positioned on the optical axis facing the optical equipment, the mirror being swivelable about at least one axis, within an angular range, wherein the casing has a through-opening (11) shaped so that any light ray received or emitted by the optical equipment parallel to the optical axis and reflected by the mirror passes through the through-opening, over the entire angular range of the mirror.
Claims16
A payload module of a stratospheric drone comprising:
- a casing;
- optical equipment having an optical axis, wherein the optical equipment is mounted in the casing;
- a mirror positioned on the optical axis and facing the optical equipment, the mirror being swivelable about at least one axis within an angular range, and
- the casing has a through-opening shaped so that any light ray accepted or emitted by the optical equipment parallel to the optical axis and reflected by the mirror passes through the through-opening, over the entire angular range of the mirror, the through-opening being without any means of closing off the opening.
A payload module of a stratospheric drone comprising:
- a casing;
- optical equipment having an optical axis, wherein the optical equipment is mounted in the casing;
- a mirror positioned on the optical axis and facing the optical equipment, the mirror being swivelable about at least one axis within an angular range, and
- the casing has a through-opening shaped so that any light ray accepted or emitted by the optical equipment parallel to the optical axis and reflected by the mirror passes through the through-opening, over the entire angular range of the mirror, the through-opening being without any means of closing off the opening,
- wherein the casing comprises a support structure configured to be mounted on the drone, the support structure comprising:
- a support arm comprising a first end configured to be mounted on the drone, and a free end, the optical equipment mounted on the support arm, and
- at least one secondary arm added to the free end of the support arm, and on which the swivelable mirror is mounted.
A stratospheric drone comprising:
- a wing, and
- a payload module including:
- a casing;
- optical equipment having an optical axis, wherein the optical equipment is mounted in the casing;
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- a mirror positioned on the optical axis and facing the optical equipment, the mirror being swivelable about at least one axis within an angular range, and
- the casing has a through-opening shaped so that any light ray accepted or emitted by the optical equipment parallel to the optical axis and reflected by the mirror passes through the through-opening, over the entire angular range of the mirror, the through-opening being without any means of closing off the opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.