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Electrically powered rotary-wing aircraft

US11975852B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

AIRBUS URBAN MOBILITY GMBH · DE

Inventors

Silvio Lanzendoerfer · Blankenburg, DE
Gero Preisser · Etting, DE
Michael Geiss · Syracuse, US

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 16, 2022
Grant date	May 7, 2024
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 21, 2042

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02T50/60
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An electrically powered rotary-wing aircraft with a first predetermined number of thrust producing units and a second predetermined number of batteries. Each one of the first predetermined number of thrust producing units may include a rotor, and an electrical drive unit with at least two electric motors. Each battery of the second predetermined number of batteries is coupled to at most one electric motor of the at least two electric motors of at least one of the first predetermined number of thrust producing units, and each electric motor of the at least one of the first predetermined number of thrust producing units is coupled to at most one of the second predetermined number of batteries.

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