Unmanned aerial vehicle with rotating and overlapping rotor arms
AssigneeGoPro, Inc.
InventorsNicholas D. Woodman, Pablo German Lema, Seung Heon Lee
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Abstract
An unmanned aerial vehicle comprises a housing, a plurality of first arms, a plurality of second arms, and a landing gear. The housing includes a gimbal attachment to couple a gimbal with a camera. Each of the plurality of first arms and the plurality of second arms rotatably couple with the housing at one end and has a motor coupled with a propeller on the other end. The landing gear includes a plurality of foldable legs and releasably couples with an underside of the housing. The aerial vehicle may be programmed with aerial flight path data that corresponds with a prior traced route.
Claims13
An unmanned aerial vehicle structure comprising:
- a housing;
- a first front arm including a first motor at a first end of the first front arm, the first end of the first front arm being at a first elevational plane when in a closed position;
- a first back arm including a second motor at a first end of the first back arm, the first end of the first back arm being at a second elevational plane when in the closed position, the second elevational plane providing an offset relative to the first elevational plane, the offset allowing a portion of the first back arm to overlap a portion of the first front arm when in the closed position;
- a second front arm including a third motor at a first end of the second front arm, the first end of the second front arm being at the first elevational plane when in the closed position;
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- a second back arm including a fourth motor at a first end of the second back arm, the first end of the second back arm being at the second elevational plane when in the closed position, the second elevational plane providing the offset allowing a portion of the second back arm to overlap a portion of the second front arm when in the closed position;
- wherein the portion of the first front arm and the portion of the first back arm that overlap are parallel to each other when the first front arm and the first back arm are in the closed position;
- wherein the portion of the second front arm and the portion of the second back arm that overlap are parallel to each other when the second front arm and the second back arm are in the closed position;
- wherein each of the first motor, the second motor, the third motor, and the fourth motor include a rotational axis and the rotational axes are all parallel to one another in the closed position and an open position, and
- wherein the rotational axes are orthogonal to the first elevational plane and the second elevational plane in the closed position and the open position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.