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US 12,565,341 B2Granted
Manned and unmanned aircraft
AssigneeDronexus Aero LLC
InventorsJames Kaiser, William Vatis
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Abstract
A manned or unmanned aircraft has a main body with a circular shape and a circular outer periphery. One or more rotor blades extend substantially horizontally outward from the main body at or about the circular outer periphery. In addition, one or more counter-rotation blades extend substantially horizontally outward from said main body at or about the circular outer periphery, but vertically offset from the main rotor blades.
Claims16
An aircraft comprising:
- a main body having an outer side;
- a thrust generator coupled to said main body and extending outward from said main body beyond the outer side of said main body to generate a thrust beyond the outer side of said main body;
- and
- a direction regulator movably coupled to said main body to move between a first position at which said direction regulator avoids interference with the thrust, and a second position at which said direction regulator at least partially engages the thrust.
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An aircraft comprising:
- a main body having an outer side;
- a thrust generator coupled to said main body and extending outward from said main body beyond the outer side of said main body to generate a thrust beyond the outer side of said main body;
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- a plurality of direction regulators each separately and movably coupled to said main body;
- a movement mechanism coupled to said plurality of direction regulators and configured to separately and independently move each of said plurality of direction regulators between a first position at which each of said plurality of direction regulators avoids interference with the thrust, and a second position at which each of said plurality of direction regulators at least partially engages the thrust.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.