Shroud geometry for unmanned aerial-vehicles
CA 2114121 C · Owner: Moffitt, Robert C. · Inventors: Owen, Stephen J.; Moffitt, Robert C.
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An unmanned aerial vehicle (10) having a toroidal fuselage (20) that surrounds a pair of coaxial, multibladed, counter-rotating rotors (40). The toroidal fuselage (20) has an airfoil profile that is optimized to provide high hover efficiency and produce a pressure distribution that provide high lift forces. The airfoil profile is further optimized to counteract the undesirable nose-up pitching moments experienced by ducted rotary-type UAVs in forward translational flight.
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- Filed July 14, 1992 and granted May 27, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 14, 2012.
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