Novel long-endurance solar unmanned aerial vehicle

• Main Authors: WAN ZHIQIANG, MA CONG, ZHANG QIAN, LIU YUNZHEN, WANG YAOKUN, ZHOU ZHENBO
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 14.11.2012
• Subjects: AEROPLANES; AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TOTRANSPORTATION; COSMONAUTICS; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT OR PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLEDVEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES, IN GENERAL; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; HELICOPTERS; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINSTCLIMATE CHANGE; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

The invention discloses a miniature solar unmanned aerial vehicle, which comprises a vehicle body, an airfoil, two motors, two propellers, a horizontal tail fin and a perpendicular tail fin, wherein the motors are arranged at the front ends of the left and right sides of the airfoil respectively; the propellers are arranged on the motors respectively; and the horizontal tail fin and the perpendicular tail fin are connected with the vehicle body. According to one embodiment of the invention, the upper surface of the airfoil is designed to comprise a plurality of intersected planes which are used for carrying solar panels (201 and 202); in addition, airfoil profile edge strips (203 and 204) are arranged on an airfoil main body, and are used for supporting a high-transmittance transparent heat shrinkage film (205); and by the transparent heat shrinkage film (205), the aerodynamic configuration of a section of the airfoil is ensured, and simultaneously, the solar panels (201 and 202) can be protected from the imp