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US 12,179,939 B2Granted
Cargo receiving facility
AssigneeSubaru Corporation
InventorsKatsuya Seki, Tomoyoshi Kuniya
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Abstract
A cargo receiving facility includes a net and a transport mechanism. The net is suspended among supports. The net is configured to receive a cargo dropped from an unmanned aircraft in flight. The transport mechanism is configured to transport the cargo received by the net. The net has an elasticity corresponding to a mass of the cargo. The net has openings each having a size corresponding to a pressure of down-wash from the unmanned aircraft.
Claims8
A cargo receiving facility comprising:
- a net suspended among supports, the net being configured to receive a cargo dropped from an unmanned aircraft in flight;
- and
- a transport mechanism configured to transport the cargo received by the net,
- wherein the net has an elasticity corresponding to a mass of the cargo, and
- wherein the net has openings each having a size corresponding to a pressure of down-wash from the unmanned aircraft,
- wherein the transport mechanism comprises a height-difference generating mechanism configured to generate a height difference among parts of the net, and
- wherein the height-difference generating mechanism causes the cargo received by the net to slide to a take-out position at one end of the net.
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A cargo receiving facility comprising:
- a net suspended among supports, the net being configured to receive a cargo dropped from an unmanned aircraft in flight;
- and
- a transport mechanism configured to transport the cargo received by the net,
- wherein the net has an elasticity corresponding to a mass of the cargo, and
- wherein the net has openings each having a size corresponding to a pressure of down-wash from the unmanned aircraft,
- wherein each of the supports comprises a slide rail provided with a slider coupled to a corresponding end of the net.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.