Unmanned aerial vehicles including wing capture devices and related methods
AssigneeInsitu, Inc.
InventorsRolf Rysdyk, Kelsey Nichole Underwood, Dustin Honea Volentine
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Abstract
Unmanned aerial vehicles including wing capture devices and related methods are disclosed. An example unmanned aerial vehicle includes a fuselage and a wing assembly, the wing assembly including a shoulder coupled to the fuselage, the shoulder including a joint, the joint distal to the fuselage, a wing coupled to the joint, and a hook, the hook coupled to the shoulder, the hook including a groove to receive a cable to arrest flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle.
Claims20
An unmanned aerial vehicle comprising:
- a fuselage;
- and
- a wing assembly, the wing assembly including:
- a shoulder coupled to the fuselage, the shoulder including a joint, the joint distal to the fuselage;
- a wing coupled to the joint;
- a boom supporting a rotor;
- and
- a hook coupled to the boom at a location on the boom forward of a leading edge of the shoulder, the hook including a groove to receive a cable to arrest flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle.
An aerial vehicle comprising:
- a fuselage;
- a wing coupled to the fuselage;
- a boom extending from the wing, the boom supporting a rotor;
- and
- a hook coupled to a side of the boom facing the fuselage, the hook to latch with a cable to arrest flight of the aerial vehicle.
A wing assembly to be coupled to a fuselage of an air vehicle, the wing assembly comprising:
- a shoulder;
- a wing coupled to the shoulder;
- a boom coupled to the shoulder, the boom supporting a rotor;
- and
- means for coupling the air vehicle to a cable to arrest flight of the air vehicle, the coupling means carried by the boom, the coupling means disposed forward of a leading edge of the shoulder and distal from a tip of the wing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.