Flying body having an upper blower equipped with rotating blades for pumping air in axial flow direction

• US 8,602,350 B2
• Filed: 02/05/2008
• Issued: 12/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kiyoko Inamori
• Original Assignee: Kiyoko Inamori
• Inventors: Inamori, Kiyoko
• Primary Examiner(s): Sanderson, Joseph W
• Assistant Examiner(s): SCHWARZ, TIMOTHY S
• Application Number:
  US12/863,527
• Publication Number:
  US 20100294878A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,135 Days
• Field of Search: 244 121- 123, 244/12.5, 244 23 B- 23 D, 244/23.R, 446/34, 446/56, 446/46
• US Class Current: 244/23.C
• CPC Class Codes: B60V 1/06 wherein the cushion is formed within plenum chamber
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 39/064 with radial airflow

Abstract

A flying body is provided with: an air blower including an upper blower equipped with rotating blades for pumping air in an axial flow direction and a lower blower equipped with rotating blades for pumping the air pumped from the upper blower in a centrifugal direction, with the upper blower and the lower blower disposed on the same axis and rotating in the opposite directions to each other; and a fixed wing having at least an inner surface formed in a skirt shape to provide a circular conical surface, and mounted concentrically with the air blower. The lower blower is mounted below an inner top face of the fixed wing such that the air pumped and sent in the centrifugal direction strikes the circular conical surface (T) of the fixed wing. The top portion of the fixed wing has no opening except for a passage through which an axial flow is pumped from the upper blower to the lower blower.

Claims

1. A flying body,

an air blower further comprising:

an upper blower equipped with rotating blades for pumping air in an axial flow direction; and

a lower blower equipped with rotating blades for pumping the air pumped from the upper blower in a centrifugal direction;

the upper blower and the lower blower disposed on the same axis and rotating in the opposite directions to each other during a use thereof; and

a fixed wing having at least an inner surface formed in a skirt shape providing a circular conical surface; and

said fixed wing being mounted concentrically with the air blower,

wherein the lower blower being mounted below an inner top face of the fixed wing such that during said use there is flow communication for the air pumped and sent in the centrifugal direction strikes the circular conical surface of the fixed wing, and

a top portion of the fixed wing has no opening except for a passage through which an axial flow is pumped from the upper blower to the lower blower,

wherein said rotating blades of the upper blower are a turbofan provided with blades between two disks, one of which has no opening and the other of which has a through hole dilled at a center,

the through hole of the turbofan of the upper blower and a through hole of a turbofan of the lower blower facing each other and being coaxially aligned, and rotatable during said use in directions opposite to each other such that during said use the turbofan of the upper blower is in flow communication to pump the intake air from the centrifugal direction through the through hole in the axis flow direction; and

the turbofan of the lower blower effective to pump the intake air from the through hole of the upper blower in the centrifugal direction.

2. The flying body, according to claim 1, further comprising:

at least one of a flight deck and a freight hold; and

said at least one of a flight deck and a freight hold being operatively mounted vertically under the lower blower.

3. The flying body according to claim 1, further comprising:

means for producing thrust acting in a horizontal direction including a change in the gravity balance of the fixed wing.

4. The flying body according to claim 1, further comprising:

means for producing thrust acting in a horizontal direction including a change in the balance of the air from the lower blower striking the circular conical surface of the fixed wing.

5. The flying body according to claim 4, further comprising:

means for changing the balance of the air from the lower blower striking the circular conical surface of the fixed wing; and

said means for changing the balance of the air from the lower blower further comprises;

diffusers capable of moving up and down in selected portions of the circular conical surface of the fixed wing.

6. The flying body according to claim 4, further comprises:

means for changing the balance of the air from the lower blower striking the circular conical surface of the fixed wing; and

said means for changing the balance of the air from the lower blower further comprises;

means to dispose through holes and said holes including means for opening and closing in selected portions of the circular conical surface of the fixed wing.

7. The flying body according to claim 4, further comprising:

means for changing the balance of the air from the lower blower striking the circular conical surface of the fixed wing; and

said means for changing the balance of the air from the lower blower comprises;

means for flexibly changing a shape of the circular conical surface of the fixed wing.

8. The flying body according to claim 1, further comprising:

means for producing thrust acting in a horizontal direction including at least one of;

a change in the gravity balance of the fixed wing; and

a change in the balance of the air from the lower blower striking the circular conical surface of the fixed wing.

9. The flying body according to claim 8, further comprising:

means for changing the balance of the air from the lower blower striking the circular conical surface of the fixed wing; and

said means for changing the balance of the air from the lower blower further comprises;

diffusers capable of moving up and down in selected portions of the circular conical surface of the fixed wing.

10. The flying body according to claim 8, further comprises:

means for changing the balance of the air from the lower blower striking the circular conical surface of the fixed wing; and

said means for changing the balance of the air from the lower blower further comprises;

means to dispose through holes and said holes including means for opening and closing in selected portions of the circular conical surface of the fixed wing.

11. The flying body according to claim 8, further comprising:

means for changing the balance of the air from the lower blower striking the circular conical surface of the fixed wing; and

said means for changing the balance of the air from the lower blower comprises;

means for flexibly changing a shape of the circular conical surface of the fixed wing.

12. A flying body comprising:

an air blower further comprising;

an upper blower equipped with rotating blades for pumping air in an axial flow direction;

a lower blower equipped with rotating blades for pumping the air pumped from the upper blower in a centrifugal direction;

wherein the upper blower and the lower blower disposed on the same axis and rotating in the opposite directions to each other during a use thereof; and

a fixed wing having at least an inner surface formed in a skirt shape providing a circular conical surface; and

said fixed wing being mounted concentrically with the air blower,

wherein the lower blower being mounted below an inner top face of the fixed wing such that during said use there is flow communication for the air pumped and sent in the centrifugal direction strikes the circular conical surface of the fixed wing,

a top portion of the fixed wing has no opening except for a passage through which an axial flow is pumped from the upper blower to the lower blower,

said rotating blades of the upper blower are a turbofan provided with blades between two disks, one of which has no opening and the other of which has a through hole dilled at a center,

the through hole of the turbofan of the upper blower and a through hole of a turbofan of the lower blower facing each other and being coaxially aligned, and rotatable during said use in directions opposite to each other such that during said use the turbofan of the upper blower is in flow communication to pump the intake air from the centrifugal direction through the through hole in the axis flow direction;

the turbofan of the lower blower effective to pump the intake air from the through hole of the upper blower in the centrifugal direction; and

means for producing thrust acting in a horizontal direction including at least one of;

a change in the gravity balance of the fixed wing; and

a change in the balance of the air from the lower blower striking the circular conical surface of the fixed wing.

13. The flying body according to claim 12, further comprising:

means for changing the balance of the air from the lower blower striking the circular conical surface of the fixed wing; and

said means for changing the balance of the air from the lower blower further comprises;

diffusers capable of moving up and down in selected portions of the circular conical surface of the fixed wing.

14. The flying body according to claim 12, further comprises:

means for changing the balance of the air from the lower blower striking the circular conical surface of the fixed wing; and

said means for changing the balance of the air from the lower blower further comprises;

means to dispose through holes and said holes including means for opening and closing in selected portions of the circular conical surface of the fixed wing.

15. The flying body according to claim 12, further comprising:

means for changing the balance of the air from the lower blower striking the circular conical surface of the fixed wing; and

said means for changing the balance of the air from the lower blower comprises at least one of a means for flexibly changing a shape of the circular conical surface of the fixed wing.