AERIAL SHOW SYSTEM USING UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV) ENERGY TO ANIMATE CREATIVE SHOW ELEMENT

• Main Authors: HOVEY PEHR L, ZUPAN MADELINE R
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 22.02.2022
• Subjects: AEROPLANES; AIRCRAFT; AMUSEMENTS; ARRANGEMENTS OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSIONTRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; CONJURING APPLIANCES OR THE LIKE; COSMONAUTICS; DEVICES FOR THEATRES, CIRCUSES, OR THE LIKE; EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLYING SUITS; GAMES; HELICOPTERS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; PARACHUTES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; SPORTS; TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS, BUILDING BLOCKS; TRANSPORTING

An aerial show system for leveraging downwash and other forces to use an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a creative element in a show. UAVs in the aerial show system each include a propulsion and lift mechanism, which generates downwash as it moves the UAV about a show's airspace. The aerial show system also includes one-to-many show effect devices adapted to make use of the downwash to activate or animate one or more movable components to generate a desired show effect, e.g., a spinning propeller or fan on an object carried or tethered beneath the UAV chassis/body. The movable component would otherwise be static or passive and relies on the potential and/or kinetic energy created by the UAV in airspace for actuation or animation. 一种空中表演系统，用于利用气流下洗和其他力将无人驾驶飞行器(UAV)用作表演中的创意元件。空中表演系统中的UAV每个都包括一个推进和提升机构，当该机构在表演的空域中移动UAV时会生成气流下洗。空中表演系统还包括一对多表演效果设备，其适于利用气流下洗来激活或动画化一个或多个可移动部件以生成期望的表演效果，例如，UAV底盘/主体下方承载或系留的物体上的转动的螺旋桨或风扇。否则，可移动部件将是静态或被动的，并且依赖于UAV在空域中创建的势能和/或动能来致动或动画。