Multi-rotor safety shield

• US 10,059,437 B2
• Filed: 01/08/2016
• Issued: 08/28/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rotor Shield, LLC
• Original Assignee: Robert Stanley Cooper
• Inventors: Cooper, Robert Stanley
• Primary Examiner(s): McFall, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US14/991,141
• Publication Number:
  US 20160200415A1
• Time in Patent Office: 963 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 27/12 Helicopters A63H27/04 takes precedence; Flying tops
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 1/062 specially adapted to absorb crash loads
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 27/20 Rotorcraft characterised by having shrouded rotors, e.g. flying platforms
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 39/001 Flying saucers
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 39/024 of the remote controlled vehicle type, i.e. RPV
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 10/13 Flying platforms
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 10/14 with four distinct rotor axes, e.g. quadcopters
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 30/20 Rotors; Rotor supports
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 30/26 Ducted or shrouded rotors

Abstract

The Multi-Rotor Safety Shield (MRSS) provides a complete and substantial encasement system which can be secured about a Drone, protecting a multitude of aircraft components from contact with any outside disturbance and which can protect the sensitive components from dust, water, wind, rain, snow, fingers, toes, appendages of any kind, and atmospheric changes as example, from disabling the Drone and can protect people, places or things from high velocity spinning exposed rotor/propellers. The MRSS provides rigid non-permeable platform for attaching or incorporating additional safety devices as found in the Drone industry (or other industries) resulting in a safety device that completely prevents the loss a Drone due to the catastrophic failure of any Drone system or combination of systems which would typically result in rapid decent, and/or uncontrolled flight. The MRSS makes Drones safe near humans and safe to use around public gatherings, stadium events, accident scenes, disaster search and rescue and disaster relief, and indoors for the security and communications markets among others expanding the availability of Drones to further assist humanity.

Claims

1. A Multi:

Rotor Safety Shield that comprises a complete and substantial safety encasement system for a Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft, a small Unmanned Aerial System (sUAS), or an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), said encasement system comprising;

a top housing platform and a bottom housing platform, wherein said housing platforms allow for a plurality of middle demountable modular sections between said top housing and bottom housing platforms;

wherein said top housing and bottom housing platforms are attached to a multiplicity of VTOL, sUAS or UAV frame crossbars by a plurality of clamps, snaps, clasps, screws, glue, tape or tie wraps;

wherein said middle demountable modular sections are demountable;

wherein said top and bottom housing platforms are attached to multiple middle demountable modular sections by a plurality of clamps, snaps, clasps, screws, glue, tape or tie wraps; and

wherein said top housing platform and bottom housing platform are configured to accommodate mountable devices; and

manifold shafts that provide a channel of unencumbered airflow around rotors and propellers;

wherein said manifold shafts provide structural reinforcement of said housing platforms and middle demountable modular sections; and

wherein said manifold shafts have an air permeable membrane, mesh or grill at the exterior opening of said manifold shafts;

wherein said encasement system is made of one or more sheets of non-permeable material;

wherein said housing platforms and middle demountable modular sections are sealed by flexible plastic, rubber, silicone gaskets or any other sealant, which is seated in a grooved, cut, slated, or machined indentation between where any two of said housing platforms and said middle modular sections meet, and forms a non-permeable air, water and dust barrier between where any top housing platform, bottom housing platform and the plurality of middle demountable modular sections meet.