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US 2019/0054997 A1Published application
Tail tracking antenna
AssigneePinnacle Vista, LLC
InventorYu Tian
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Abstract
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a system of communication between an unmanned aerial vehicle with a ground controller, the UAV having a top side, a bottom side, and an antenna side. The antenna side of the UAV can have a hinge to which a flat panel antenna can be disposed is pivotably coupled. The flat panel antenna can be actively controlled or passively controlled by gravity.
Claims17
An unmanned aerial vehicle, comprising:
- a hinge, coupled to the unmanned aerial vehicle;
- and
- a housing;
- a flat panel antenna disposed within the housing and is pivotably coupled to the hinge to change a pitch of the flat panel antenna.
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A UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) communication system, comprising:
- a UAV having a top side, bottom side, and an antenna side;
- a ground controller configured to send a positional information of the ground controller to the UAV causing the UAV to constantly remain facing the ground controller with the antenna side, regardless of a relative orientation of the UAV to the ground controller;
- an antenna device coupled to the antenna side of the UAV, the antenna device comprising:
- a hinge coupled to the unmanned aerial vehicle;
- and
- a flat panel antenna pivotably coupled on the hinge.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.