Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Small flying vehicle equipped with airbag device
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Application No.: US16329892Application Date: 2017-08-15
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Publication No.: US11267573B2Publication Date: 2022-03-08
- Inventor: Akihiro Wakatsuki , Tomomi Akiba , Takao Kuroda
- Applicant: DAICEL CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: DAICEL CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: DAICEL CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: JPJP2016-172054 20160902
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/029349 WO 20170815
- International Announcement: WO2018/043116 WO 20180308
- Main IPC: B64D25/00
- IPC: B64D25/00 ; B64C39/02 ; B64D47/08

Abstract:
A small flying vehicle flown by radio control or autonomously by an auto pilot is equipped with an airbag device. The small flying vehicle has a main body part including a controller and a battery, a frame, a propeller, a motor, and a transmitting and receiving antenna. The airbag device has a gas supplier, a sensor, a controller, and an airbag. The airbag device is attached to the main body part, and the gas supplier is provided with a gas cylinder that releases a compressed gas when a closure member sealing the gas cylinder is broken, a breaker, including an electric igniter, that breaks the closure member, and introduction device that introduces the gas discharged from the gas cylinder and providing the pressurized gas into the airbag to inflate the airbag.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200231291A1 SMALL FLYING VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH AIRBAG DEVICE Public/Granted day:2020-07-23
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