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US 11,667,373 B2Granted
Elevon control system
AssigneeAeroVironment, Inc.
InventorsCarlos Thomas Miralles, Robert Nickerson Plumb, Tony Shuo Tao, Nathan Olson
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Abstract
A system comprising an aerial vehicle or an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured to control pitch, roll, and/or yaw via airfoils having resiliently mounted trailing edges opposed by fuselage-house deflecting actuator horns. Embodiments include one or more rudder elements which may be rotatably attached and actuated by an effector member disposed within the fuselage housing and extendible in part to engage the one or more rudder elements.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- an actuator horn disposed within a fuselage, the actuator horn extendible in part from the fuselage via a fuselage housing aperture to contact and move a control surface in an extended position, wherein the fuselage housing aperture is located on a bottom of the fuselage, and wherein the actuator horn is extendible through the fuselage housing aperture to contact a top surface of the control surface.
A system, comprising:
- a first actuator horn disposed within a fuselage, the first actuator horn extendible in part from the fuselage via a first fuselage housing aperture to contact and move a first control surface in an extended position, wherein the first fuselage housing aperture is located on a bottom of the fuselage, and wherein the first actuator horn is extendible through the first fuselage housing aperture to contact a top surface of the first control surface.
A system, comprising:
- one or more actuators mounted to a fuselage, wherein each of the one or more actuators comprises an extended position;
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- one or more airfoils having one or more control surfaces, wherein the one or more airfoils are rotatably attached to the fuselage via one or more pivot points, and wherein each of the one or more airfoils comprise one or more resilient elements;
- wherein each actuator of the one or more actuators comprises an actuator horn extendible in part from the fuselage via a fuselage housing aperture of one or more fuselage housing apertures to contact and move the respective control surface of the one or more control surfaces in the extended position, wherein the actuator horn is extendible through the respective fuselage housing aperture of the one or more fuselage housing apertures to contact a surface of the respective control surface of the one or more control surfaces.
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