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US 2025/0171132 A1Published application
Aircraft with detachable wings and method of detaching its wings
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorEugene Hwang
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Abstract
An embodiment aircraft includes a fuselage, a wing coupled to the fuselage, a fixing portion connecting a portion of the wing to the fuselage, and a controller disposed in the fuselage, wherein the controller is configured to transmit a severing signal to cause a portion of the fixing portion to be severed.
Claims20
An aircraft comprising:
- a fuselage;
- a wing coupled to the fuselage;
- a fixing portion connecting a portion of the wing to the fuselage;
- and
- a controller disposed in the fuselage, wherein the controller is configured to transmit a severing signal to cause a portion of the fixing portion to be severed.
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An aircraft comprising:
- a fuselage;
- a wing;
- a hinge portion rotatably connecting a first connection portion of the wing to the fuselage;
- a fixing portion connecting a second connection portion of the wing to the fuselage, wherein the first connection portion of the wing and the fuselage connected by the hinge portion is lower than the second connection portion of the wing and the fuselage connected by the fixing portion;
- a sensor portion disposed in a portion of the fuselage, wherein the sensor portion is configured to sense status information of the fuselage, and wherein the sensor portion comprises an impact sensor configured to detect an impact applied to the fuselage;
- and
- a controller disposed in the fuselage, wherein the controller is configured to generate a severing signal based on the status information sensed by the sensor portion and to transmit the severing signal to the fixing portion to cause a portion of the fixing portion to be severed in response to the detected impact being equal to or greater than a reference value.
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A method of detaching a wing of an aircraft, the method comprising:
- detecting a collision of a fuselage and measuring an amount of impact through a sensor portion disposed in the fuselage;
- determining whether the measured amount of impact is greater than or equal to a reference value;
- transmitting a severing signal to a fixing portion fixing the wing to the fuselage in response to a determination that the measured amount of impact is greater than or equal to the reference value;
- severing the fixing portion according to the severing signal;
- and
- separating a portion of the wing from the fuselage by severing the fixing portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.