The invention relates to a field of aeronautical and aerospace technology, particularly to a capable of taking off and landing vertically, and hovering.
With progressive development of social economy, the urban population and motor vehicles increase day after day, the urban road traffic jam and congestion have been ubiquitous in cities all over the world, leading to traffic jams, accidents, energy waste and environmental pollution resulted from the multiplied automobile emission, which not only restrict, the sustainable development of cities and social economy severely, but also influence the quality of people's life severely. The ground transportation has been unable to meet people's overgrowing demands for material life, so a faster, more convenient and efficient aerial three-dimensional traffic will be a new topic concerned and studied by people.
At present, there are two classes of common aerial crafts:
(1) Fixed wing aircraft, e.g. civil aircraft: altitude 5000-10000 m, speed 500-800 km/h. The civil aircraft usually uses fixed wings and jet engines, high load carrying capacity, high airspeed and high agility .Its flight is free from the obstructions of high mountains, rivers, deserts and oceans. It is safe and comfortable, less affected by weather, high coefficient of safety. However, the major defect in the fixed wing aircraft is that it must be accelerated or decelerated by taxiing during takeoff and landing, so it cannot be as popular as cars as limited to the takeoff and landing sites.
(2) Rotary wing aircraft, e.g., helicopter: altitude below 10800 m, speed 0-300 km/h. The major characteristic of helicopter is that one or multiple large horizontally rotating power engines provide an upward lift. The helicopter is characterized by vertical takeoff and landing, staying in the air (hovering), low altitude, slow or backward flight. However, the helicopter is driven by free space screw power engine, the flight is restricted by air side flow and turbulence seriously, the driving is difficult, the safety is not guaranteed. It cannot be popularized as civil aircraft.
In view of this, for the deficiencies in the existing technology, the present invention provides a ring-shaped airfoil disc-shaped aircraft which can take off and land vertically and can hover, popularized as civil aircraft.
The present invention provides a ring-shaped airfoil aircraft capable of taking off and landing vertically, and hovering, comprising:
a fuselage, wherein the shape of the fuselage is dish-shaped disc;
cockpit, wherein the cockpit is round and protrudes from a top of the fuselage so that the pilot can look at surrounding environment;
a passenger cabin, which is located inside the fuselage and directly below the cockpit;
a power bay, wherein the power bay is disposed in a peripheral annular region of a passenger cabin, and the power bay is uniformly distributed with a plurality of upper and lower channels around a central axis of the aircraft;
an upper end of each channel is an annular interrupted suction port with a diversion, and an engine is arranged in each channel, the engine is inhaled inward through the upper end of the channel, and the lower end of the channel is jetted downward to provide flight power to the aircraft;
a tapered tail rudder, wherein the tapered tail rudder is disposed in a circular area within the passenger cabin and connected to a steering gear, and a tail end of the tail rudder can be elongated, shortened or disappeared according to the change in airspeed, so as to reduce the viscous force of air when the aircraft is ascending rapidly;
a ring-shaped airfoil, wherein the ring-shaped airfoil is disposed outside the power bay and changes the lift or reverse lift of air by protruding, upturning or concealing a flange, thereby taking off, landing or leveling during the flight;
a flight controller, which is located in the aircraft.
In comparison to the existing technology, the functions and effects of the present invention are:
(1) The aircraft of the present invention comprises an elliptic fuselage, a cockpit, a passenger cabin, a power bay, a tapered tail rudder, a ring-shaped airfoil and a flight controller. As the fuselage is an elliptic dish structure, which is the optimal contour structure for flying in the air flow field. The structure disturbs the gas flow field least, and has the minimum air resistance in the course of flight. The contour of the aircraft of the present invention has the flying abilities for vertical takeoff and landing and hovering at a fixed altitude of multiaxial rotary wing powered aircraft, but compared with multiaxial rotary wing powered aircraft, its flight attitude is hardly influenced by air side flow, the flight attitude is more reliable. The aircraft of the present invention can implement the airspeed of fixed wing ducted aircraft, and the flight energy consumption is much less than the existing fixed wing ducted aircraft, and its takeoff and landing are free of runways, that is a requisite particularity of a popular aircraft. The present invention obtains the lift for aircraft, reduces the drag to aircraft and enhances its flight safety performance.
(2) The present invention discloses the findings of the inventor about the flight of birds over the years, referring to the flight attitude of birds, the flight of birds is imitated and improved according to the aerodynamic characteristics, so as to design annularly discontinuous air suction inlets with diversion, a retractable tapered tail rudder and a ling-shaped airfoil. The air suction inlets allow the aircraft to admit air from normally above, so that a cylindrical vacuum negative pressure area is formed normally above the aircraft, an anabatic thrust is obtained. An engine is located in the middle of the channel of power bay, controllable and continuous rotating air admittance is generated by a series of refined calculation according to the power requirement, and the inducted air is jetted out of the gas vent in the bottom of aircraft, the corresponding thrust is obtained. A tapered tail rudder is located in the circular region of gas vents in the bottom of aircraft close to the passenger cabin, the tapered tail of tail rudder can be elongated, shortened or eliminated according to the change in airspeed, so as to reduce the viscous force of air when the aircraft is ascending rapidly. A ring-shaped airfoil which can be hidden or deformed is provided around the elliptic fuselage. The ring-shaped airfoil can be Hidden, upwarped or pulled down according to flight attitude, so as to obtain the optimal flying ability.
Wherein the contour of the fuselage 10 is dished disc shaped, the vertical section is an elliptic structure.
The cockpit 20 is circular, the cockpit 20 protrudes from the top of fuselage 10, so that the pilot can look round.
The passenger cabin 30 is located in the fuselage 10 and normally under cockpit 20, the passenger cabin 30 can be provided with a large room for passengers or cargoes.
The power bay 40 is located in the annular region around passenger cabin 30, several vertically through channels 41 are distributed uniformly around the central axis of aircraft in power bay 40. The upper end of each channel 41 is an annularly discontinuous air suction inlet 42 with diversion. An engine 43 is located in each channel 41. The engine 43 admits air inward through the upper port and jets gas downward through the lower port, so as to provide flight power for the aircraft.
The tapered tail rudder 50 is located in the circular region within passenger cabin 30. The tapered tail rudder 50 is connected to the steering gear, the tapered tail of tail rudder can be elongated, shortened or vanished according to the change in airspeed, so as to reduce the viscous force of air when the aircraft is ascending rapidly.
The ring-shaped airfoil 60 is located in the area outside power bay 40. The flange of ring-shaped airfoil 60 protrudes downwards, upwarps or hides to change the lift or reverse lift of air, so as to implement ascending, landing or horizontal flight in the course of flight.
The flight controller is located in the aircraft for controlling the aircraft power battery management, real-time airspeed management, acceleration management for comfortable driving, cockpit 20 and passenger cabin 30 air pressure, temperature and oxygen level parameters management, and emergency escape management.
The numbers of channels 40 and engines 43 are set according to the load and dead weight of aircraft and the user requirements for the aircraft performance, there are three or more engines 43 in general. The present invention arranges four engines 43 to expound the structure property and principles of flight of aircraft.
There are four channels 41 in power bay 40 of the present invention, provided with four engines 43 to form a four-power aircraft. The aircraft can be provided with different types of aerojet engine 43, so as to obtain different performances and airspeeds, e.g. axial-flow turbojet 80, turbofan 90 and turboshaft 43 (not disclosed).
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This axial-flow turbojet 80 produces thrust fully depending on gaseous jet, there is only one turbojet flow channel 40, the efficiency is higher when the speed is high, providing high speed power. The axial-flow turbojet 80 is characterized by small cross section and high compression ratio. When the airspeed of aircraft exceeds sonic speed (Ma>1.0), the propulsive efficiency of this axial-flow turbojet 80 increases rapidly, even if in the range of Mach number 2.5-3.0, the propulsive efficiency of turbojet 43 is still 90%, (Ma 1.4) supersonic, cruise can be implemented.
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The area of the sixth section of the compressor 94 of the turbofan 90 is relatively large, and it is used as airscrew, pushing partial inducted air backward through the periphery of jet engine. The hard core air of engine 43 flows through inner duct 98, only the air from fan 93 flows through the outer duct 99 outside core engine.
Partial gas fired heat energy of the fanjet 43 is transferred to the fan 93 through the high efficiency second turbine 96, the high working efficiency of the fan 93 contributes to the thrust power of the engine 43; meanwhile the inner duct jet speed is reduced, the leaving loss of the engine 43 is reduced, contributing to the propulsive efficiency of engine 43. Therefore, the fanjet 43 has high overall efficiency, low fuel oil consumption rate and good engine 43 economy. The turbofan 90 is most applicable to airspeed of 400 to 1000 km/h.
In addition, this kind of turbofan 90 is high bypass turbofan of hybrid exhaust, as the jet speed of inner and outer bypasses of the engine 43 is reduced greatly, and the jet noise intensity of engine 43 is proportional to the eighth power of jet speed, the jet noise of the engine 43 is lower, and the total noise level of the engine 43 is lower, the noise pollution to the environment is reduced effectively, the aircraft is more comfortable.
The aircraft of the present invention can be equipped with other existing aircraft power devices of different specifications and models, so as to display completely different flying abilities. Different models and specifications of civil personal aerial crafts can be customized according to different user requirements for aircraft performance at an altitude of 0 to 10000 min the speed per hour space of 0 to 800 km/h.
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The flight controller of the ring-shaped airfoil 60 disc-shaped aircraft of the present invention is a hardware-based high-tech product integrated with singlechip technology, sensor technology, GPS navigation technology, communication technology, flight control technology, task control technology and programming technique. It controls the disc-shaped aircraft to implement climbing, hovering and cornering actions.
To be specific, the flight controller is integrated with and connected to computing element, navigation sensor, wireless data, transmission module, engine 43 and steering gear control modules. The navigation sensor comprises inertial navigation, geomagnetism, GPS, ultrasonic, laser, barometer, luminous flux and navigation camera. The engine 43 and steering gear control modules are connected to engine 43 and steering gear respectively. The wireless data transmission module implements remote controlled flight of aircraft. The flight controller runs an embedded system, and has sensor data fusion, attitude and position control, autonomous navigation, autopilot, waypoint management and fault protection function, For example, Canada Micropilot commercial flight control.
There are four channels in the power bay, provided with four engines to form a four-power aircraft. The four-power aircraft is equipped with forward-backward, right-left and up-down gyroscopes and three acceleration sensors with coordinate axes as axes of rotation to compose the inertial navigation module.
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(1) Vertical Motion
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(2) Pitching Motion
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(3) Rolling Motion
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(4) Yawing Motion
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(5) Forward-Backward Motion
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(6) Lateral Motion
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The above only describes some exemplary embodiments of the present invention. Those having ordinary skills in the art may also make many modifications and improvements without departing from the conception of the invention, which shall all fall within the protection scope of the invention.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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2018110104912 | Aug 2018 | CN | national |