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US 2021/0229807 A1Published application
Base of stationing and automatic management for drones
AssigneeDronus S.P.A.
InventorMarco BALLERINI
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the field of the unmanned aerial vehicles, in particular to a suspended landing and take-off and management base.
Claims17
-16. (canceled)
A landing and take-off base for an unmanned aerial vehicle, comprising:
- a main body provided with an opening and comprising a continuous internal wall defining a stationing region inside said main body;
- a retaining unit provided with a couple of gripping arms configured to engage an attachment portion of the aerial vehicle and to allow a controlled hooking and/or release of the latter,
- wherein said continuous internal wall has a converging truncated conical shape towards said retaining unit and wherein said opening is placed at a larger base surface, the overall configuration of the base being such that, in use, said retaining unit can assume a gripping condition wherein the aerial vehicle is hooked and at least partially housed inside the stationing region and a release condition wherein the aerial vehicle is released and free to fall through said opening during the take-off.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.