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Transformer & SP- Drone
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4. Feb-2021 PCT not yet published.
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Patent Portfolio (does not include provisional applications):
#1 US 10,589,838 Multicopter with Passively-Adjusting Tiltwing. Filed 10-Sep-2019. Issued 17-Mar-2020.
#2 US 16/6783319 Multicopter with Improved Propulsor and Failsafe Operation, Filed 06-Feb-2020
#3 PCT/US20/36936 WO 2021/029947, Multicopter with Improved Propulsor and Failsafe. Filed 10-Jun-2020.
#4 PCT/US21/16*** Flat Plate Airfoil Platform Vehicle. Filed 03-Feb-2021.
See Prototypes for proofs of concepts, HS-Drone, and Summary for further more details on Transformer and SP- Drones.
EXAMPLE CONFIGURATIONS:
Index to patents/applications: a) Example 1 [pat/appl #1, #2, #3, #4], b) Example 2 [#2, #3, #4], c) Example 3 [#2, #3, #4], d) Example 4 [#2, #4].
#1 US 10,589,838 Multicopter with Passively-Adjusting Tiltwing. Filed 10-Sep-2019. Issued 17-Mar-2020.
#2 US 16/6783319 Multicopter with Improved Propulsor and Failsafe Operation, Filed 06-Feb-2020
#3 PCT/US20/36936 WO 2021/029947, Multicopter with Improved Propulsor and Failsafe. Filed 10-Jun-2020.
#4 PCT/US21/16*** Flat Plate Airfoil Platform Vehicle. Filed 03-Feb-2021.
See Prototypes for proofs of concepts, HS-Drone, and Summary for further more details on Transformer and SP- Drones.
EXAMPLE CONFIGURATIONS:
Index to patents/applications: a) Example 1 [pat/appl #1, #2, #3, #4], b) Example 2 [#2, #3, #4], c) Example 3 [#2, #3, #4], d) Example 4 [#2, #4].
NOTE: All of the examples have flat lifting-body cruising configurations which enable much higher efficiencies.
Opportunity - Most new aircraft are incremental changes to concepts known for decades, including the V-22 Osprey (bicopter) tiltrotor and the B-2 flying wing. Also, it takes too long and costs too much to commercialize these incremental changes.
The Disruption - Two patented/patent-pending advances are creating INCREDIBLE capabilities.
1) Transformer Drone performs safer and simpler transitions to more-efficient cruising configurations. For example, the V-22 targets transformation to a twin-prop plane while Transformer Drone targets transformation to aircraft like the D8 Double Bubble, having a > 100% increase in cruising energy efficiency with higher speeds. Correction, a >200% increase in cruising energy efficiency, because drones can have thinner profiles that do not require pressurized cabins.
2) SP-Drone is a lighter-weight, lower-drag, and and easily expandable method to collect solar energy on an aircraft. The solar energy collected per weight for SP-Drone's solar platforms is literally >300% more than possible with the increased wingspan approaches of NASA's HELIOS (and other) solar aircraft. Implications extend to dominance of freight and passenger transit as well as new stratosphere-based manufacturing.
Unprecedented - This project brings forth at least two (not one) disruptive technologies which are inter-related in two dimensions of innovation (transformations vs solar power enhancement). And those innovations are early in the patent protections, with 19 years of world-wide patent protection in the balance. These scalable innovations can be commercialized faster and better than ever before by early emphasis on kit/hobby/toy scale drone markets.
Path of Innovation - Transformer Drone and SP-Drone have created an unprecedented two-dimensional space of new capabilities. With that comes an unprecedented opportunity for innovations that support those new capabilities, innovations like 1) an improved hybrid electric-fuel jet engine, 2) the integrated circuit motor, and 3) improved rapid scaleup and commercialization methods.
Opportunity - Most new aircraft are incremental changes to concepts known for decades, including the V-22 Osprey (bicopter) tiltrotor and the B-2 flying wing. Also, it takes too long and costs too much to commercialize these incremental changes.
The Disruption - Two patented/patent-pending advances are creating INCREDIBLE capabilities.
1) Transformer Drone performs safer and simpler transitions to more-efficient cruising configurations. For example, the V-22 targets transformation to a twin-prop plane while Transformer Drone targets transformation to aircraft like the D8 Double Bubble, having a > 100% increase in cruising energy efficiency with higher speeds. Correction, a >200% increase in cruising energy efficiency, because drones can have thinner profiles that do not require pressurized cabins.
2) SP-Drone is a lighter-weight, lower-drag, and and easily expandable method to collect solar energy on an aircraft. The solar energy collected per weight for SP-Drone's solar platforms is literally >300% more than possible with the increased wingspan approaches of NASA's HELIOS (and other) solar aircraft. Implications extend to dominance of freight and passenger transit as well as new stratosphere-based manufacturing.
Unprecedented - This project brings forth at least two (not one) disruptive technologies which are inter-related in two dimensions of innovation (transformations vs solar power enhancement). And those innovations are early in the patent protections, with 19 years of world-wide patent protection in the balance. These scalable innovations can be commercialized faster and better than ever before by early emphasis on kit/hobby/toy scale drone markets.
Path of Innovation - Transformer Drone and SP-Drone have created an unprecedented two-dimensional space of new capabilities. With that comes an unprecedented opportunity for innovations that support those new capabilities, innovations like 1) an improved hybrid electric-fuel jet engine, 2) the integrated circuit motor, and 3) improved rapid scaleup and commercialization methods.