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US 2019/0193847 A1Published application
Manned and unmanned aircraft
AssigneeKaiser Enterprises, LLC
InventorsJames KAISER, William Vatis
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Abstract
A manned or unmanned aircraft has a main body with a circular shape and a circular outer periphery. One or more rotor blades extend substantially horizontally outward from the main body at or about the circular outer periphery. In addition, one or more counter-rotation blades extend substantially horizontally outward from said main body at or about the circular outer periphery, but vertically offset from the main rotor blades.
Claims17
An aircraft comprising:
- a main body having an outer periphery;
- one or more blades rotating about the outer periphery of said main body to generate a thrust having a thrust direction;
- and
- one or more flaps pivotally coupled at the outer periphery of said main body to rotate between a first position at which said one or more flaps is substantially parallel to the thrust direction to avoid interference with the thrust, and a second position at which said one or more flaps is pivoted outward with respect to said outer periphery to partially engage the thrust.
1 more element
An aircraft comprising:
- an upper body portion;
- a lower body portion aligned with said upper body portion, said upper and lower body portions having an outer periphery;
- a shaft fixedly coupled to said upper body portion and said lower body portion to define a channel between said upper body portion and said lower body portion;
- an upper blade positioned in said channel and rotating in a first direction about the outer periphery of said main body to generate a thrust having a thrust direction;
- and
- a lower blade positioned in said channel and rotating in a second direction opposite the first direction about the outer periphery of said main body.
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An aircraft comprising:
- a main body having a transverse channel and an outer periphery;
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- a blade positioned in said transverse channel and extending outward from said main body beyond said outer periphery to generate a thrust.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.