Helicopter having rotors equipped with flaps
OwnerMinoru Ikedainventor
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Abstract
A helicopter comprises a pair of rotors each having a flap hinged to one of its edges, a seesaw rod swingably supported above the rotors, a pair of auxiliary wings fixed to opposite ends of the seesaw rod, and a pair of connecting rods each connecting one of the flaps with seesaw rod above it. When the lift produced by one of the rotors becomes larger than that produced by the other, the auxiliary wing located above the rotor producing the larger lift rises and turns up the flap of the rotor to reduce its flap effect and decrease the rotor lift, while the auxiliary wing located above the rotor producing the smaller lift lowers and turns down the flap of the rotor to increase its flap effect and raise its lift. As a result, the lifts of the two rotors are regulated.
Claims6
A helicopter comprising
- a fuselage,
- a rotor head supported at a position above the fuselage by a rotor shaft connected with and driven by an engine,
- a pair of rotors fixed at their roots to the outer edge of the rotor head at a predetermined pitch angle and at positions spaced from each other by 180.degree.,
- a pair of flaps one of which is rotatably hinged to one edge of each rotor,
- a generally wishbone-shaped supporting frame whose legs are attached to the rotor roots and extend upward to join at an apex,
- a seesaw rod supported by the supporting frame to be swingable about the apex thereof,
- a pair of auxiliary wings fixed at a prescribed pitch angle to opposite ends of the seesaw rod and positioned above the pair of rotors, and
- a pair of connectors each connected at one end with one of the flaps and at the other end with the seesaw rod positioned above the flap,
- any difference in lift between the pair of auxiliary wings causing the seesaw rod to incline to change the angle of attack of the flaps for increasing the flap effect of the rotor on the side of the auxiliary wing producing smaller lift and decreasing the flap effect of the rotor on the side of auxiliary wing producing larger lift.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.