Landing gears for aerial vehicle to minimize aerodynamic drag during flight
AssigneeideaForge Technology Limited
InventorAnkit Mehta
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Abstract
An aerial vehicle (AV) 100 includes a rotor system 150 with a set of rotor arms 152 and a set of propellers 154 to provide a lift force during a vertical take-off of the AV 100; and a set of landing gears movably coupled to the rotor arms 152 for movement between a deployed position to support the aerial vehicle 100 during landing and take-off, and a retracted position to form an enclosure 210 around the set of propellers 154 to reduce aerodynamic drag during a forward movement of the AV 100 after the vertical take-off. The sets of landing gears can includes a pair of L-shaped landing gears 200, a C-shaped cross sectional landing gears, an another C-shaped cross sectional landing gears, a U-shaped slidable landing gears, and a flap-shaped slidable landing gears.
Claims9
A fixed wing vertical take-off and landing aerial vehicle (100), the aerial vehicle (100) comprising:
- a rotor system (150) comprising a set of rotor arms (152) and a set of propellers (154) coupled to the rotor arms (152);
- the set of propellers (154) configured to provide a lift force during a vertical take-off of the aerial vehicle (100);
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- a set of landing gears (200, 300, 400, 500, 600) movably coupled to the rotor arms (152) for movement between a deployed position, in which the set of landing gears (200, 300, 400, 500, 600) support the aerial vehicle (100) on ground after landing and before take-off, and a retracted position, in which the set of landing gears (200, 300, 400, 500, 600) form an enclosure (210, 306, 408, 508, 608) around the set of propellers (154) to reduce aerodynamic drag during a forward movement of the aerial vehicle (100) after the vertical take-off of the aerial vehicle (100).
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