Patent Application
20210237864
a) U.S. Pat. No.: 7,296,529B2
Fluidynamic Lift Array, Technology;
b) US Patent Application No.: 20070041830
Hydrodynamic closed loop turboset selfbooster.
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All aircrafts need sufficient lift forces, especially big for safe and slow take offs and landings, in turbulent air situations, and sudden maneuvers
This proposal suggests:
a) To use small built-in hydrofoils instead of traditional large air wings.
b) To use big lift forces of water flow instead of lift forces of air flow: the liquid density is in ˜1000 times higher.
c) To use closed-loop tunnels working as self boosters.
The object of this proposal is to suggest an aircraft with big lift forces which are not depending of plane's velocity.
It is well known that large air wings often bring difficulties connected with strong vibrations which shake up many systems and connections in airplanes; especially when the take offs, landings, and air-turbulences periodically (but constantly) occur.
Built-in hydrolift units with their kits of hydrofoils provide the task to have an aircraft with high lift possibilities and without said difficulties from big air wings' vibrations.
the Hydrofoiled Aircraft suggests much bigger lift forces and higher reliability for many planes' situations.
Any prior arts where built-in hydrolift units with their hydrofoils provide high lift forces to the aircraft, and suggested by other authors,—were not found.
In the drawings closely related elements have the same numbers but different alphabetic suffixes. Numbers of views and sections are according to numbers of figures where they are shown.
20—Fuselage
21—Thrust motor
22—Horizontal stabilizer
23—Vertical stabilizer
24—Auxiliary Winglet
25—Elevator
26—Aileron-flaps
27A, B—Rudders
28A, B—Landing Shassis
30—Hydrolift unit
31—Closed-loop tunnel; 31w—water
32C—Hydrofoil control
33—Kit of guide-grids
33C—Guide-grid control
34—Bypass, 35—Piston valve, 36—Meters
37—Plate, 38—Heat shield
39—Pump station, 40—Axial flow pump
41—Pump motor, 42—Pump drive
Wf—Water flow inside tunnel 31
Pab—Pressure above the hydrofoils 32A, B
Pun—Pressure under the hydrofoils 32A, B
L—Hydrofoil lift force
α—Hydrofoil angle clearly of attack.
The Hydrofoiled Aircraft includes a set of Hydrolift units 30 and regular devices, all built in fuselage 20. Every Hydrolift unit 30 has its closed loop tunnel 31 with Hydrofoils 32A, B and filled by water 31w; the pump station 39, control devices, 32C, 33, 33C, meters provide needed conditions to the interactions.
The auxiliary winglets 23, all the stabilizers, elevators, rudders help to provide effective control and maneuvers in flights. The basic formulae for hydrodynamic lift are well known.
The specifics of all devices and their functions are clearly shown on the drawings,
The axial flow pump 40 works as selfbooster impelling the water 31w in closed loop tunnel 31 for hydrofoils 32A, B, and for itself, and at itself. This is an accumulative method when a singular pump performs actually in series with itself providing high potential circulative hydrodynamic flow inside tunnel 31 multiplying pressure ratio of the water flow wf and suppressing any possible cavitation.
The operative water flow wf provides to Hydrofoils 32A, B Hydrodynamic lift-forces L, which all together form the common lift for the Hydrofoiled Aircraft which is transmitted to the fuselage 20 by plates 37.
