Patents by Inventor Paul D. SAMUEL

Paul D. SAMUEL 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).

  • Flapping wing aerial vehicles
    Patent number: 10017248
    Abstract: An autonomous flapping wing aerial vehicle can have a vehicle body, a pair of flapping wings, tunable wing hinges, and elastic drive mechanisms. The tunable wing hinges can be coupled to the flapping wings. Each wing hinge can be constructed to deliver a force to a respective one of the flapping wings to alter end points of a stroke thereof. The elastic drive mechanisms can rotate the flapping wings about pivot points to produce the strokes of the flapping wings. The elastic drive mechanism can be driven at or near a resonance thereof. Alterations to the strokes of the flapping wings produced by the combined effect of the tunable wing hinges and the elastic drive mechanisms, operating in parallel, can provide steering control of the aerial vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignees: University of Maryland, College Park, Daedalus Flight Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Paul D. Samuel, Imraan Faruque, James Sean Humbert
  • FLAPPING WING AERIAL VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20150307191
    Abstract: An autonomous flapping wing aerial vehicle can have a vehicle body, a pair of flapping wings, tunable wing hinges, and elastic drive mechanisms. The tunable wing hinges can be coupled to the flapping wings. Each wing hinge can be constructed to deliver a force to a respective one of the flapping wings to alter end points of a stroke thereof. The elastic drive mechanisms can rotate the flapping wings about pivot points to produce the strokes of the flapping wings. The elastic drive mechanism can be driven at or near a resonance thereof. Alterations to the strokes of the flapping wings produced by the combined effect of the tunable wing hinges and the elastic drive mechanisms, operating in parallel, can provide steering control of the aerial vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Paul D. SAMUEL, Imraan FARUQUE, James Sean HUMBERT