Patents by Inventor Colin Kemater Bunting

Colin Kemater Bunting has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • AERODYNAMIC ROTARY INTERFACE
    Publication number: 20230391448
    Abstract: A rotor assembly including a fixed fairing including an interface portion and a hub fairing including a depression. The depression is configured to receive at least a portion of the interface portion. The hub fairing is rotatable relative to the fixed fairing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Colin Kemater Bunting, Patrick Ormande Bowles, Peter F. Lorber, Brian Ernest Wake, Byung-Young Min
  • Flying wing vertical take-off and landing aircraft
    Patent number: 10723453
    Abstract: A flying wing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft includes an empennageless-fuselage from which foldable wings extend outwardly, an empennageless-nacelle supported on each of the wings and a rigid rotor propeller disposed on each empennageless-nacelle, each of the propellers being drivable to rotate about only a single rotational axis defined along a longitudinal axis of the corresponding empennageless-nacelle and being fully cyclically controllable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark W. Scott, Colin Kemater Bunting
  • In-flight reconfigurable aircraft tail
    Patent number: 10279903
    Abstract: A system and method for a reconfigurable aircraft having a fuselage with one or more propellers, at least one tail assembly, a processor, and a memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: determine a safety clearance for the at least one tail assembly; and selectively move the at least one tail assembly upon a determination that the safety clearance is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Colin Kemater Bunting, Michael Peter Strauss
  • FLYING WING VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDING AIRCRAFT
    Publication number: 20180281942
    Abstract: A flying wing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is provided and includes an empennageless-fuselage from which foldable wings extend outwardly, an empennageless-nacelle supported on each of the wings and a rigid rotor propeller disposed on each empennageless-nacelle, each of the propellers being drivable to rotate about only a single rotational axis defined along a longitudinal axis of the corresponding empennageless-nacelle and being fully cyclically controllable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Mark W. Scott, Colin Kemater Bunting
  • IN-FLIGHT RECONFIGURABLE AIRCRAFT TAIL
    Publication number: 20170190412
    Abstract: A system and method for a reconfigurable aircraft having a fuselage with one or more propellers, at least one tail assembly, a processor, and a memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: determine a safety clearance for the at least one tail assembly; and selectively move the at least one tail assembly upon a determination that the safety clearance is achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Colin Kemater Bunting, Michael Peter Strauss