Heavy Lift airborne transport device

• US 10,071,800 B2
• Filed: 10/23/2015
• Issued: 09/11/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jedidya L. Boros
• Original Assignee: Jedidya L. Boros
• Inventors: Boros, Jedidya L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dinh, Tien Q
• Assistant Examiner(s): Fabula, Michael A.
• Application Number:
  US14/756,861
• Publication Number:
  US 20170113794A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,054 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 1/24 Steps mounted on, and retractable within, fuselages
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 25/405 Powered wheels, e.g. for taxing
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 27/08 with two or more rotors
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 29/00 Aircraft capable of landing or taking-off vertically, e.g. vertical take-off and landing [VTOL] aircraft rotorcraft B64C27/00
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 39/064 with radial airflow

Abstract

The device is capable of transporting people and goods from one location to another: it includes a circular shaped body, a uniquely designed propeller mounted on the top of the body with propeller blades that produce a low pressure region above the device, the difference between the air pressure on the bottom and the top of the device'"'"'s body provides the uplift force for holding the device in the air, capable of vertical takeoff and landing; on the surrounding wall, sideways and in back, service propellers are mounted in horizontal direction to help navigate the device; land and sea landing version of the device is disclosed as well; its bottom is extended in order to keep the doors above the water level during floating.

Claims

1. A Heavy lift airborne transport device comprising:

a circular body including a lower surface, an upper surface and a wall member surrounding the perimeter of said surfaces;

a rotating shaft is adapted to the center of said body and extends above the upper region of said body;

at least two propeller blades are fixed to the upper region of the rotating shaft wherein said propeller blades in the horizontal plane have an outwardly gradually inclined curved configuration backward to the direction of rotation;

wherein said propeller blades have a U shaped configuration with the open sided located horizontally in the direction of turning at the central region of said propeller blades and gradually changes outwardly to a vertically inclined shape wherein the forward upper region of said blades are in the direction of the turning;

an engine for applying a torque to said rotating shaft.

2. The heavy lift airborne transport device as recited in claim 1 wherein a lower region of said propeller blades follows the shape of the upper surface region of said body till the perimeter of said body.

3. The heavy lift airborne transport device as recited in claim 2 wherein radially extended horizontally aligned wings are mounted diametrically opposite to the wall member of the said body;

into said wings horizontally aligned propellers are mounted.

4. The heavy lift airborne transport device as recited in claim 3 wherein in the backward region of the wall member of said body, a radially extended horizontally aligned wing is mounted;

into this wing horizontally aligned propeller or propellers are mounted.

5. The heavy lift airborne transport device as recited in claim 4 wherein in the backward region of the wall member of said body a radially extended vertically aligned wing is mounted;

into this wing a vertically aligned propeller is mounted.

6. The heavy lift airborne transport device as recited in claim 5 wherein a pilot'"'"'s cabin is located in the front of said body.

7. The heavy lift airborne transport device as recited in claim 6 wherein at the lower surface of said body at least three wheels are provided.

8. The heavy lift airborne transport device as recited in claim 7 wherein on the wall member of said body doors and windows are provided.

9. The heavy lift airborne transport device as recited in claim 8 wherein to said wall member radially extended vertically or in an inclined direction, plate members are mounted.

10. The heavy lift airborne transport device as recited in claim 9 wherein the vertical section of the top region of said body has an elliptic configuration.

11. The heavy lift airborne transport device as recited in claim 6 wherein the pilot'"'"'s cabin extends forward from said body.

12. The heavy lift airborne transport device as recited in claim 8 wherein the lower region of said body is extended downward, providing land and sea operating versions of said device, said downward extension is provided in order to keep the bottom edge of said door or doors above the water level while said device is floating on the water;

the engine and fuel tank are located at the lower surface of said device capable to balance said device against flipping over in water.

13. The heavy lift airborne transport device as recited in claim 12 wherein in the substantially lower region of the wall member of said body a vertically mounted wing is attached in the backward direction, capable of turning around a vertical axis.

14. The heavy lift airborne transport device as recited in claim 13 wherein in the substantially lower region of the wall member of said body at least one vertically aligned seagoing propeller is mounted in the backward direction.