Lighting apparatus for remote controlled device

• US 10,370,118 B1
• Filed: 10/31/2016
• Issued: 08/06/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samy Kamkar, Simon Saito Nielsen
• Original Assignee: Samy Kamkar, Simon Saito Nielsen
• Inventors: Nielsen, Simon Saito, Kamkar, Samy
• Primary Examiner(s): Sweeney, Brian P
• Application Number:
  US15/339,810
• Time in Patent Office: 1,009 Days
• Field of Search: 701 2
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 39/024 of the remote controlled vehicle type, i.e. RPV
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 2203/00 Aircraft or airfield lights using LEDs
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 47/06 for indicating aircraft presence
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 2101/24 for use as flying displays, e.g. advertising or billboards
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 30/20 Rotors; Rotor supports
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0016 characterised by the operator's input device input arrangements for computing systems in general G06F3/00

Abstract

There is a remote control device or drone, which has software and a combination of lights or LED on an lighting ring or apparatus that can move independently of the drone; the drone can be programmed or be reactive to sound or other stimulus to create the effect of writing shapes or words in the air and typically at nighttime against a dark sky.

Claims

1. An apparatus for presenting LED lighting on a drone,

said drone having:

a drone frame, at least one drone motor and at least one rotating blade;

a battery;

a LED microcontroller;

a wireless receiver;

an electronic speed controller; and

a first flight controller,

said apparatus for presenting LED lighting comprising;

the drone frame having a first drone frame arm and a second drone frame arm;

the first drone frame arm having an LED ring motor;

the second drone frame arm having a bearing; and

a LED housing that has at least one LED light and engages the drone frame arms via the bearing and the LED ring motor, whereby the bearing allows the LED Ring Motor to move the LED housing around an axis of the drone frame and independently of movement of the drone.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein in low light conditions and when the LED housing is moving independently around the drone, the at least one LED light creates a persistence of vision such that the drone is invisible in relation to the at least one LED light.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the drone frame has a third, fourth, fifth and six arm with the at least one drone motor and the at least one rotating blade.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the LED housing is translucent and circular, square, rectangular or triangular in shape.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first drone arm has a first bearing;

and

the second drone arm has a second bearing.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second drone frame arm has a second LED ring motor.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the drone is wirelessly connected to a second flight controller, which is a computing device with audio and visual inputs and can direct the LED lights to activate, for the LED Ring Motor to active to move the LED housing and to operate the first flight controller of the drone.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the second flight controller is a smartphone, tablet or laptop computer;

the audio input is a microphone;

the visual input is a light sensor.

9. An apparatus for presenting LED lighting on a drone,

said drone having:

a drone frame, at least one drone motor and at least one rotating blade;

a battery;

a LED microcontroller;

a wireless receiver;

an electronic speed controller; and

a first flight controller,

said apparatus for presenting LED lighting comprising;

the drone frame having a first drone frame arm and a second drone frame arm;

the first drone frame arm having an LED ring motor;

the second drone frame arm having a bearing; and

a circular LED housing that has at least one LED light and engages the drone frame arms via the bearing and the LED ring motor, whereby the bearing allows the LED ring motor to rotate the LED housing around an axis of the drone frame and independently of movement of the drone.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein in low light conditions and when the LED housing is moving independently around the drone, the at least one LED light creates a persistence of vision such that the drone is invisible in relation to the at least one LED light.

11. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the first drone arm has a first bearing;

and

the second drone arm has a second bearing.

12. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the second drone frame arm has a second LED ring motor.

13. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the drone is wirelessly connected to a second flight controller, which is a computing device with audio and visual inputs and can direct the LED lights to activate, for the LED Ring Motor to active to move the LED housing and to operate the first flight controller of the drone.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the second flight controller is a smartphone, tablet or laptop computer;

the audio input is a microphone;

the visual input is a light sensor.