Patents by Inventor Jean-Paul Picard

Jean-Paul Picard 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).

  • Vertical lift system through tangential blowing of air jets channelled over the top of rotating cylinders
    Patent number: 5180119
    Abstract: This invention pertains to a means of aerial lift depending on the use of an air jet blown and channelled (through a nozzle and a vane) exclusively and almost tangentially over a limited segment of a rotating cylinder (a Magnus cylinder) thereby creating a useful depression and lift. The part of the cylinder's surface swept by such jet (which part we will name the "useful segment") is delimited upstream by a nozzle "splitting" a sheet of air almost tangentially over the cylinder and downstream by a vane which will skim the surface of the cylinder and direct the jet away from the surface of the rotating cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1993
    Inventor: Jean-Paul Picard