Aircraft with emergency landing point warning system
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorEu Gene Hwang
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Abstract
An embodiment aircraft includes an aircraft body including a fuselage, a status information detection device disposed in or on the aircraft body, a controller disposed in or on the aircraft body and configured to determine whether an emergency landing situation exists based on aircraft status information detected by the status information detection device and, in response to a determination that the emergency landing situation exists, calculate an expected emergency landing point, and an external output device disposed in or on the aircraft body and configured to output warning information toward the expected emergency landing point, wherein the warning information includes a sound or a light.
Claims20
An aircraft comprising:
- an aircraft body comprising a fuselage;
- a status information detection device disposed in or on the aircraft body;
- a controller disposed in or on the aircraft body and configured to:
- determine whether an emergency landing situation exists based on aircraft status information detected by the status information detection device;
- and
- in response to a determination that the emergency landing situation exists, determine an expected emergency landing point;
- and
- an external output device disposed in or on the aircraft body and configured to output warning information toward the expected emergency landing point, wherein the warning information comprises a sound or a light,
- wherein the status information detection device comprises one or more sensors configured to detect the aircraft status information, wherein the one or more sensors are configured to detect or measure a position of the aircraft, an attitude of the aircraft, an altitude of the aircraft, a speed of the aircraft, an acceleration of the aircraft, or atmospheric information outside the aircraft.
A method of warning about an emergency landing point of an aircraft, the method comprising:
- detecting aircraft status information;
- determining whether an emergency landing situation exists based on the aircraft status information;
- in response to a determination that the emergency landing situation exists, determining an expected emergency landing point based on the aircraft status information by the aircraft;
- controlling an external output device to be directed toward the expected emergency landing point;
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- controlling output of warning information toward the expected emergency landing point using the external output device,
- wherein the aircraft status information comprises a location of the aircraft, an attitude of the aircraft, an altitude of the aircraft, a speed of the aircraft, an acceleration of the aircraft, and atmospheric information outside the aircraft.
A system for providing a warning about an emergency landing of an aircraft, the system comprising:
- one or more sensors disposed in or on an aircraft body of the aircraft;
- a controller disposed in or on the aircraft body and configured to:
- determine whether an emergency landing situation exists based on aircraft status information detected or measured by the one or more sensors, wherein the aircraft status information comprises a position of the aircraft, an attitude of the aircraft, an altitude of the aircraft, a speed of the aircraft, an acceleration of the aircraft, or atmospheric information outside the aircraft;
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- determine an expected emergency landing point based on the aircraft status information in response to a determination that the emergency landing situation exists;
- and
- an external output device disposed on the outside of the aircraft body, directable toward the expected emergency landing point, and configured to output warning information toward the expected emergency landing point, wherein the warning information is output by the external output device as a sound warning or a light warning.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.