Transportation system including a hovering vehicle
AssigneeJG Entrepreneurial Enterprises LLC
InventorJohn Goelet
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Abstract
A transportation system is disclosed. The transportation system has a vehicle that is self-powered and configured to generate an air cushion on a trackless lane having a substantially flat surface. The vehicle is configured to move over the substantially flat surface on the air cushion. The transportation system also has a guidance system configured to guide the vehicle between peripheries of the trackless lane.
Claims20
A self-powered hovering vehicle, the self-powered hovering vehicle comprising:
- a leading module;
- a plurality of intermediate modules;
- a dispending system located at a front of the leading module and configured to dispense a surface-improving material from the self-powered hovering vehicle onto a trackless lane in front of the self-powered hovering vehicle while the self-powered hovering vehicle is traveling over the trackless lane on an air cushion.
A self-powered hovering vehicle, the self-powered hovering vehicle comprising:
- a cavity;
- and
- a plurality of modules with at least one module being a leading module located at a front of the self-powered hovering vehicle and comprising a dispending system, the dispensing system configured to dispense a surface-improving material stored in the cavity onto a trackless lane in front of the self-powered hovering vehicle while the self-powered hovering vehicle in hovering over the trackless lane on an air cushion.
A method for operations a self-powered hovering vehicle,
- the method comprising:
- generating an air cushion between a bottom of the self-powered hovering vehicle and a substantially flat surface of a trackless lane;
- and
- dispensing a surface-improving material stored in a cavity located at a front of the self-powered hovering vehicle onto the trackless lane in front of the vehicle while the vehicle is hovering over the trackless lane on the air cushion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.