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US 12,735,204 B2Granted
System for detachably coupling an unmanned aerial vehicle within a launch tube
AssigneeAeroVironment, Inc.
InventorAlexander Andryukov
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Abstract
An unmanned aerial vehicle launch tube that has a tube, a sabot disposed in an interior of said tube, said sabot having a first clasp tab, and a clasp detachably coupled to said first clasp tab and contacting an inner circumferential wall of said tube so that said clasp is rotationally constrained by the inner circumferential wall and said first clasp tab.
Claims20
A method of launching an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from a UAV launch tube comprising:
- moving a sabot disposed in a first aperture portion of the UAV launch tube to a second aperture portion of the UAV launch tube;
- decoupling the sabot from the UAV based on movement of the sabot from the first aperture portion to the second aperture portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.