MULTI-ROTOR SAFETY SHIELD

• US 20160200415A1
• Filed: 01/08/2016
• Published: 07/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rotor Shield, LLC
• Original Assignee: Robert Stanley Cooper
• Inventors: Cooper, Robert Stanley
• Granted Patent: US 10,059,437 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 27/12 Helicopters A63H27/04 takes precedence; Flying tops
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 10/14 with four distinct rotor axes, e.g. quadcopters
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 20/30 for safety, e.g. with frangible components rotor guards B64U30/299
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 20/75 the body formed by joined shells or by a shell overlaying a chassis
• 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. The inventor claims a Multi-Rotor Safety Shield (MRSS) device that provides a complete and substantial encasement system for UAV'"'"'s, UAS'"'"'s, sUAS'"'"'s or any other VTOL'"'"'s (known as Drone or Drones), that protects the Drone itself from any exterior disturbance including but not limited to dust, water, wind, rain, snow, atmospheric occurrences or any other disturbance that would otherwise disable the Drone in flight;

it protects persons, places and things in the event of any disturbance of any kind to the Drone that could cause rapid decent or uncontrolled flight from the failure of one or more of the on board systems;

it protects the Drone from being lost due to lack of communications or any other malfunction that would otherwise disable the Drone; and

the MRSS returns the disabled drone safely to ground without harm to the Drone or to people, places or things.

a. The MRSS is a rigid non permeable platform and is the basis of complete and substantial encasement system for a plurality of Drones.

b. The MRSS is an encasement system that includes a top housing component 1 and a bottom housing component 20 with an optional middle housing component 10 and/or additional housing components for future unknown use.

c. The MRSS has an encasement component consisting of any number of flexible water and air resistant gaskets, grommets, plugs, seals, or sealers 18, 25, and 26 as example made of rubber, silicone, acrylic or any other elastic material in a grooved, cut, slat, machined indentation, as example, 5, 12, 27, 30, 33, and 34 between where any two housing components come together or meet and with the manifold/crossbar pass through grommets 25 between where the intake 2 and exhaust 21 manifolds junction with the Drone crossbars 24 to achieve a water and air resistant complete and substantial encasement system.

d. The MRSS has an encasement component consisting of a screen, grid or any other method of air permeable membrane 4 that covers any exterior opening such as but not limited to the manifold section at the exterior most position of both intake 2 and exhaust 21 manifolds matching the number of rotor/propellers and protecting the rotor/propellers from contacting any person, place of thing and by protecting the rotor/propellers from any outside person, place of thing from coming into contact the rotor/propellers.

e. The MRSS has a rigid non permeable platform 1, 20 as part of a complete and substantial encasement system for a plurality of Drones that can house any number of safety devices.

i. The MRSS functions as a mounting platform 1, 20 for any number of number of parachutes 3 or any type of inflatable device 29 capable of stopping rapid and uncontrolled descent.

ii. The MRSS functions as a mounting platform 1, 20 that eliminates fly away Drones by deploying a parachute 3 and inflatable device 29 and an RFID chip and by a rotor/propeller shutdown once loss of communications, or loss of any critical function such as but not limited to, GPS, battery failure, wind disturbance, or human error as example, that would likely cause the Drone to be lost or to have uncontrolled flight, thereby allowing the Drone to safely return to the ground undamaged.

2. The inventor claims a sectional complete and substantial encasement system that can include an optional middle housing component 10 or any number of housing components, that are used for audio and video two way communication and or another use deemed necessary for future Drone devices such as combustion engines, drive shafts, gas tanks, engine exhaust systems, delivery devices, letter dispensers, weapons, munitions or any other payload as an example.

a. The middle housing component 10 has an encasement component consisting of any number of flexible water and air resistant gaskets, grommets, plugs, seals, or sealers 18, 25, and 26 as example made of rubber, silicone, acrylic or any other elastic material in a grooved, cut, slat, machined indentation, as example, 12, 27, 30, 33, and 34 between where any two housing components come together or meet and with the manifold/crossbar pass through grommets 25 between where the intake 2 and exhaust 21 manifolds junction with the Drone crossbars 24 to achieve a water and air resistant complete and substantial encasement system.

b. The optional middle housing component 10 has an encasement component consisting of a screen, grid or any other method of air permeable membrane 4 that covers any exterior opening such as but not limited to the combustion engine intake or exhaust requirements.