Plural Distinct Engine Air Intakes On Fuselage Flanks Or Wing Roots Patents (Class D12/342)
  • Patent number: 7735774
    Abstract: A fixed-wing VTOL aircraft features a forward-swept wing configuration coupled with a tripod arrangement of the engines (two forward, one rear), a forward-swept empennage or tail assembly, and a forward canard. The engines and wings/empennage are located relative to each other such that the engine outlet nozzles, which pivot downwardly to provide lift-off thrust, are minimally covered by the wings/empennage, if at all. The wings and empennage may include lifting fans to supplement lift and provide pitch and/or roll control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Sonic Blue Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Patent number: D439876
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Zakrytoe Actsionernoe Obshchestvo “Otdelenie morskikh sistem OKB im. P.O. Sukhogo”
    Inventors: Mikhail P. Simonov, Viktor I. Merkulov, Yury L. Ivanov, Konstantin K. Marbashev, Aleksandr Y. Maranov, Anatoly S. Klyagin, Leonid G. Chernov
  • Patent number: D264838
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1982
    Inventor: Peter Dornier
  • Patent number: D274510
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1984
    Assignee: Fairchild Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean McComas, Gordon Rosenthal
  • Patent number: D276995
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1985
    Inventor: Anthony F. Drake
  • Patent number: D278700
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1985
    Assignee: Fairchild Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Sidney A. Powers, Gordon Rosenthal, William V. Stirling
  • Patent number: D285062
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1986
    Assignee: Northrop Corporation
    Inventors: Robert R. Sandusky, Jr., Victor C. Brock, Lionel O. Gay
  • Patent number: D287483
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1986
    Assignee: Flight Concepts Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Russell P. O'Quinn, Irven H. Culver
  • Patent number: D291554
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1987
    Assignee: Fairchild Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Abraham Enav, Gordon Rosenthal
  • Patent number: D292910
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1987
    Inventor: Robert H. McGiboney
  • Patent number: D294478
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1988
    Assignee: Northrop Corporation
    Inventors: Haig Asdurian, Michael G. Huben, Kenneth M. Shimabukuro, David J. McNally, Robert V. Dunkason
  • Patent number: D295037
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1988
    Assignee: Northrop Corporation
    Inventors: Janusz Stalony-Dobrzanski, Everest E. Riccioni, Robert V. Dunkason
  • Patent number: D306616
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1990
    Assignee: Takara Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kouzin Ohno
  • Patent number: D308043
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1990
    Inventor: Gerald L. Butler
  • Patent number: D314366
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Assignee: Northrop Corporation
    Inventors: Irving T. Waaland, John F. Cashen, James E. Kinnu
  • Patent number: D317432
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1991
    Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation
    Inventor: Darold B. Cummings
  • Patent number: D317897
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1991
    Inventors: Vladimir I. Antonov, Leonid I. Bondarenko, Georgy S. Bjushgens, Evgeny A. Ivanov, Stanislay T. Kashafutdinov, Artem A. Kolchin, Vitaly G. Mikeladze, Valery A. Nikolaenko, Oleg S. Samoilovich, Mikhail P. Simonov, Leonid G. Chernov, Georgy L. Yakimov
  • Patent number: D319042
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1991
    Inventors: Vladimir P. Babak, Nikolai N. Venediktov, Mikhail V. Guschin, Valery A. Ivanov, Jury V. Ivashechkin, Igor B. Movchanovsky, Oleg S. Samoilovich, Leonid G. Chernov, Vyacheslav M. Lebdev
  • Patent number: D325557
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1992
    Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation
    Inventors: Darold B. Cummings, Todd S. Malik
  • Patent number: D326081
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1992
    Assignee: McDonnell Douglas Corporation
    Inventors: Richard T. Cathers, Derek MacWilkinson
  • Patent number: D332080
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Assignee: Northrop Corporation
    Inventors: Robert R. Sandusky, Jr., John E. Wolfe, Yu-Ping Liu, Walter E. Fellers, William A. Moore, Merle L. Jager
  • Patent number: D349271
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1994
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Inoue, Michimasa Fujino
  • Patent number: D355157
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1995
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: John M. L. Reeves
  • Patent number: D356990
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas J. Weir, Heinz A. Gerhardt, Robert V. Dunkason, Randall B. Hall
  • Patent number: D418105
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Inventor: Michael Margaritoff
  • Patent number: D762157
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Benjamin Faure, Angélique Santerre, Jean Philippe Dutheil, Christophe Chavagnac, Eugénio Ferreira, Thierry Pichard
  • Patent number: D762548
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Benjamin Faure, Angélique Santerre, Jean Philippe Dutheil, Christophe Chavagnac, Eugénio Ferreira, Thierry Pichard
  • Patent number: D765010
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: EMBRAER S.A.
    Inventors: Oliver Turci De Camargo, Erich Shibata Nishiyama, Valéria Lie Alonso, Jay Beever
  • Patent number: D778803
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFECE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Benjamin Faure, Angélique Santerre, Jean Philippe Dutheil, Christophe Chavagnac, Eugénio Ferreira, Thierry Pichard
  • Patent number: RE46320
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA PATENTS & TECHNOLOGIES NORTH AMERICA, LLC
    Inventors: Michimasa Fujino, Chris Osborne