# US 2014/0151508 A1 · Method of landing of a surveillance unmanned aerial vehicle and a surveillance unmanned aerial vehicle

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- Number: US 2014/0151508 A1
- Document ID: US20140151508A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 13/689,853
- Filed: 2012-11-30
- Published: 2014-06-05
- Earliest claimed: 2012-11-30
- Assignees: WB Electronics S.A.
- Inventors: WOJCIECH SZUMINSKI; Ryszard Jurecki; Grzegorz Krupa; Adam Bartosiewicz; Piotr Wojciechowski
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140151508A1

## CPC

- B64D 1/08: the articles being load-carrying devices
- B60V 1/00: Air-cushion (land vehicles, waterborne vessels, or aircraft adapted or modified to travel on air cushion B60V3/00)
- B64U 50/19: using electrically powered motors
- B64U 70/83: using parachutes, balloons or the like
- B64U 30/293: Foldable or collapsible rotors or rotor supports
- B64U 70/60: Take-off or landing of UAVs from a runway using their own power
- B64U 2101/31: for surveillance
- B64D: EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT
- B60V: AIR-CUSHION VEHICLES
- B64U: UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES [UAV]; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR

## Abstract

The mode of landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle driven by an electric engine, containing main power supply batteries, control systems of the surveillance head, transmitting and receiving systems, a flight control system, and a container equipped with a surveillance head with a looking down lens, placed in a recess situated in the lower part of the fuselage by which the vehicle is lightened at the last stage of flight shortly before landing, which means the container placed in the recess is detached, then moved outside the vehicle's body and descended by means of a parachute into a desired location, and the lightened vehicle lands in some other place. The recess in the fuselage contains an electrically controlled lock which fixes detachably the container equipped with at least one parachute placed at the bottom section of the container, on the side of the surveillance head.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method of landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle driven by an electric engine, containing the main power supply batteries, surveillance head control systems, transmitting and receiving systems, a flight control system, and a container equipped with a surveillance head with a looking down lens placed in a recess at the bottom part of the fuselage, wherein the unmanned air vehicle is lightened at the last stage of flight shortly before landing, characterized in that the container is detached from the recess situated at the bottom part of the fuselage, and then the container is moved outside the fuselage and descended by means of a parachute onto a requested place, and the lightened vehicle lands in another location.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method according to claim 1, characterized in that when the container is detached from the fuselage, the parachute fixed near the surveillance head forces the falling container to rotate around its horizontal axis by 180 degrees causing the lens of the surveillance head to turn up.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method according to claim 1, characterized in that when the container is detached from the fuselage, an electric engine driving the propeller is turned off, and after this the propeller collapses along the axis of the fuselage, and the lightened vehicle is brought down to slide landing with the use of the flight control system powered by auxiliary batteries.

### Claim 4 (depends on 2)

The method according to claim 2, characterized in that when the container is detached from the fuselage, an electric engine driving the propeller is turned off, and after this the propeller collapses along the axis of the fuselage, and the lightened vehicle is brought down to slide landing with the use of the flight control system powered by auxiliary batteries.

### Claim 5

An unmanned aerial vehicle driven by an electric engine, containing a surveillance head control system, transmitting and receiving systems, a battery, and a container equipped with a surveillance head with a looking down lens placed in a recess at the bottom part of the fuselage, characterized in that in a recess of the fuselage an electronically controlled lock is mounted, whereby the lock fixes in a detachable manner a container furnished with at least one parachute placed in the lower part of the container, on the side of the surveillance head.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 5, characterized in that the electronically controlled lock co-functions with a lock mandrel mounted on the container.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 6, characterized in that the container comprises the main power supply batteries and the control systems of the surveillance head.

### Claim 8 (depends on 5)

The unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 5, characterized in that the container comprises the main power supply batteries and the control systems of the surveillance head.