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US 11,572,086 B2Granted
Electric aerial sky tram
AssigneeTextron Innovations Inc.
InventorsCarlos Alexander Fenny, Guy Bernard
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Abstract
An aerial sky tram system includes a plurality of towers, a cable track suspended from the plurality of towers by a support cable, and a sky tram coupled to the cable track. The sky tram includes a plurality of rotors that propel the sky tram along the cable track.
Claims20
An aerial sky tram system comprising:
- a plurality of towers;
- a cable track suspended from the plurality of towers by a support cable;
- a sky tram coupled to the cable track, the sky tram comprising a plurality of rotors that propel the sky tram along the cable track;
- and
- wherein:
- the cable track comprises a curved portion;
- the plurality of towers comprises a first tower, a second tower, and a turn tower positioned between the first and second towers;
- and
- a horizontal distance between the turn tower and the cable track is greater than a horizontal distance between the first tower and the cable track.
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An aerial sky tram system comprising:
- a plurality of towers;
- a cable track suspended from the plurality of towers by a support cable comprising a cable dampener;
- a sky tram coupled to the cable track, the sky tram comprising a plurality of rotors that propel the sky tram along the cable track;
- and
- wherein the cable dampener comprises:
- a cable dampener body;
- an elastic element disposed within the cable dampener body;
- and
- wherein an end of the support cable is coupled to the elastic element and the cable dampener body is coupled to a cable track support of the cable track.
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A sky tram for an aerial sky tram system, the sky tram comprising:
- a compartment;
- a truck attached to a top of the compartment and configured to couple to the sky tram to a cable track suspended from a tower;
- a plurality of ducted fans attached to the compartment and configured to propel the sky tram along the cable track;
- and
- wherein each ducted fan of the plurality of ducted fans comprises:
- a duct housing a plurality of rotor blades;
- and
- a vertically oriented vane and a horizontally oriented vane aft of the plurality of rotor blades and that articulate to control a direction of thrust generated by the rotor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.