| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 180116000 | SURFACE EFFECT VEHICLES (I.E., GROUND EFFECT MACHINES) | 22 |
| 20090084622 | Method of Mass Transit - Disclosed is a method for converting the area of federally protected wetlands, like those located between the Anacostia River's edge and the boundary of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's (WMATA) Anacostia Metrorail Station's property line, into a right-of-way or a specific travel route for the safe passage of hovercraft passenger ferry that is non-destructive of the environmentally sensitive nature of the land used as a right-of-way. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090101426 | Vehicle - Vehicle for operation on various grounds, including a hull ( | 04-23-2009 |
| 20110192663 | WIG Vehicle Excluding Horizontal Stabilizer - A body having a fuselage, a wing unit including a main wing, and a propulsion unit including an engine. The wing unit includes a main wing protruding out from the lateral center of the WIG vehicle fuselage, a downward wing which is vertically and downwardly installed on the outer tip of the main wing, and a canard which protrudes out horizontally from the front end of the fuselage, which is in the moving direction of the WIG vehicle from the main wing. The canard includes a horizontal stabilization plate which has a stationary horizontal panel structure, and a variable flap which is installed to face the rear surface of the horizontal stabilization plate. In the lateral cross section shape, the front surface portion including the leading edge is round at a proper thickness to prevent clearance generated by turning of the canard, the trailing edge is sharp and straight, and the thickness of a portion between the thickest portion and rear portion narrows. The lateral cross section of the entire horizontal stabilizer is airfoil-shaped. Accordingly, the invention is able to resolve the design problem of the horizontal stabilizer caused by a ground effect because the WIG vehicle comprises a canard for stabilizing vertical disturbance instead of a horizontal stabilizer. | 08-11-2011 |
| 180117000 | Having propulsion or control means | 11 |
| 20100000817 | HOVERCRAFT AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND USE OF SAME - An air-cushioned vehicle or hovercraft includes a three-dimensional frame comprising a latticework of tubular members. A pressure plate is coupled to the underside of the frame and includes at least one aperture therein and a skirt attached adjacent a periphery thereof. At least one lifting fan is positioned relative to the at least one aperture to generate a current of air therethrough. The frame may be configured to generate a visual indication of damage thereto. Methods of making and air-cushion vehicle are disclosed. Methods of using an air-cushion vehicle are also disclosed. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100200321 | TRANSFERRING SYSTEM USING AERO-LEVITATION STYLE AND TRANSFERRING DEVICE USING AERO-LEVITATION STYLE - A transferring system using aero-levitation style and a transferring device using aero-levitation style are provided. The transferring device using aero-levitation style includes one or more pairs of caterpillars each of which moves while drawing a track; a plurality of air bearings disposed inside of the caterpillars and levitated from an inner bottom surfaces of the caterpillars by repulsive force of air; and a loading unit coupled to the air bearings onto which a portage is loaded, wherein the loading unit is levitated and moved together with the caterpillars by the movement of the caterpillars. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100300787 | HOVER DODGEM - A hover dodgem ( | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110174563 | AIR CUSHION PLATFORM FOR CARRYING A MANIPULATOR ARM AND MOVABLE ROBOT - An air cushion platform for carrying a manipulator arm, having a base, on the bottom side of which an air cushion system is attached for lifting the base from a standing position into a moving position above a bottom. At least one actuator device is mounted on the base, which actuator device is optionally in constant contact with the bottom in order to move the base at the bottom. A controller is connected to the air cushion system and the at least one actuator device in order to actuate the actuator device only if the air cushion platform is located in a moving position. A moveable robot is provided, particularly for the controlled guiding of a tool. The moveable robot has an air cushion platform, a foundation mounted on the air cushion platform and moveably supported thereby, and a manipulator arm having one end section that is attached to the foundation and another end that carries a tool. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20120125706 | WIG CRAFT HAVING HYBRID PROPULSION MEANS - A wing-in-ground (WIG) craft having a streamlined WIG craft body, a main wing mounted on opposite sides of the WIG craft body, a pylon mounted on the WIG craft body or the main wing, and a combined thruster having a primary thruster unit mounted on the pylon, and an auxiliary thruster unit serving as a booster used when the WIG craft takes off from a water surface. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20130333968 | DIRECTIONAL CONTROL SYSTEM FOR HOVERCRAFT - A hovercraft including a directional control system is disclosed. The directional control system includes at least one airflow control assembly configured to generate and direct at least one airflow. The at least one airflow generated and directed by the airflow control assembly results in component forces that are used to move and control the hovercraft in lateral, forward and reverse directions, or any degree of direction between the lateral, forward and reverse directions. The configuration of the at least one airflow control assembly enables precise control over movement of the hovercraft. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20140311813 | Hovercraft With Multiple, Independently-Operable Lift Chambers - The invention is a hovercraft with multiple lift chambers which are operable independently of each other. Independently-operable pivot arm assemblies connect each lift chamber to the hovercraft main body, and his gives the hovercraft the ability to travel over uneven surfaces, traverse obstacles that would block conventional hovercrafts, and climb or descend even severe inclines. The hovercraft also includes side thrusters which allow it to maintain its vertical position on an incline while traveling laterally across the incline. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140353059 | Hovercraft without lift fan - A hovercraft without lift fan includes: a hull; and a power device; wherein the hull includes: a main body; and two sub-bodies; wherein bottom surfaces of the sub-bodies are lower than a bottom surface of the main body, the two sub-bodies are symmetrically aligned under a front portion of the bottom surface of the main body, the two sub-bodies are provided with a distance therebetween; an outer surface of the sub-body and an outer surface of the main body form an aligned side surface or an unified side surface; the aligned side surface or the unified side surface extends towards a space under the bottom surfaces of the main body and the sub-bodies for forming a main sidewall; an inner side surface of the sub-body extends towards a space under the bottom surface of the sub-body for forming a sub-sidewall; wherein during sailing, the main sidewalls and the sub-sidewalls are partly immersed in water and respectively form three independent lifting areas having forward openings with the bottom surface of the main body and the bottom surfaces of the sub-bodies. The hovercraft doesn't utilize the lifting fan of conventional hovercrafts. However, during sailing, a high-pressure air cushion is effectively formed under the hull, in such a manner that low sail resistance, high propulsion efficiency and high speed is archived. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20150034401 | Levitation System for a Train - The present invention relates to a fender, bogie, train, track and methods. The fender according to the invention comprises: a support surface provided on the underside during use; an inner pressure chamber provided in or on the support surface; a feed arranged in the pressure chamber for feeding a fluid; a first rim present round the inner pressure chamber, wherein at least a part of the rim is flexible; and a second rim arranged round the first rim such that a pressure chamber is created between two adjacent rims. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20160052503 | APPARATUS INCLUDING USER-PLATFORM ASSEMBLY AND AIR-THRUSTING ASSEMBLY AND METHOD THEREFOR - An apparatus is to be operated relative to a working surface; the apparatus includes a user-platform assembly configured to support a user in response to the user positioned on the user-platform assembly; an air-thrusting assembly operatively coupled to the user-platform assembly, and the air-thrusting assembly configured to thrust air along: a first direction relative to the working surface in such a way that the air-thrusting assembly urges the user-platform assembly to vertically hover, at least in part, over the working surface; and a second direction relative to the working surface in such a way that the user-platform assembly travels, at least in part, horizontally along the working surface while the air-thrusting assembly urges the user-platform assembly to vertically hover, at least in part, over the working surface. | 02-25-2016 |
| 180120000 | Integrated with working fluid | 1 |
| 20110266081 | METHOD FOR COMPREHENSIVELY INCREASING AERODYNAMIC AND TRANSPORT CHARACTERISTICS, A WING-IN-GROUND-EFFECT CRAFT FOR CARRYING OUT SAID METHOD (VARIANTS) AND A METHOD FOR REALIZING FLIGHT - The group of inventions relates to aviation and to transport means having (static and dynamic) air discharge, in particular to self-stabilizing wing-in-ground-effect craft of types A, B and C. The following technical results are achieved: increased flight safety and maneuvering safety, increased load-bearing capacity and flight height in ground effect mode, reduced dimensions, improved take-off and landing characteristics, as well as amphibian characteristics and economic efficiency, increased functionality and a wider range of operational alignments, and greater ease of use and maintenance. This result is achieved by simultaneously applying the methods for generating a system of aerodynamic forces, the structural solutions and the piloting methods conceptually linked therewith which are proposed in the present group of inventions to “flying wing” or “composite wing” design layouts. | 11-03-2011 |
| 180124000 | Expansible chamber | 1 |
| 20100212982 | CUSHIONED PALLET ASSEMBLY - A cushioned pallet assembly includes a rigid pallet body having four lateral sides, an air bag unit including at least one inflatable air bag mounted to the pallet body and capable of producing a pressurized layer of air beneath the air bag, and an air supply conduit unit connected to the air bag for supplying air to the same. The pallet body further has top and bottom faces. The air bag is disposed below the bottom face of the pallet body. | 08-26-2010 |
| 180125000 | Fluid bearing or fluid pad | 3 |
| 20140102821 | HEATER SYSTEM MEDIA BED FLOAT SLED AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - A float sled comprising a body with a substantially flat upper surface, a lift plate operationally associated with the body and adapted to move from a first position in proximity to the upper surface of the body to a second position above the first position and above the body, a set of pneumatic air bag lifts associated with the lift plate to raise and lower the lift plate to various horizontal orientations with differing degrees of tilt, and an air bearing adapted to raise the body above the ground. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140158445 | Hoverbarrow and method - A hoverbarrow apparatus is provided to mechanically lift objects to be transported using a cushion of air as the main means of lift. The air cushion method of lift drastically reduces the physical exertion necessary for motion, forward or reverse, required to perform the task of transporting objects. The air cushion further improves the performance and use of the barrow by allowing the barrow to float over objects in its path significantly reducing or eliminating impressions and divots in the surface currently associated with the present wheelbarrow technology. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20160200454 | DUAL FUNCTION MOVEMENT COMPONENT FOR AUTOMATED ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS | 07-14-2016 |
| 180127000 | Flexible skirt | 2 |
| 20080217082 | Skirt for Air Cushion Vehicle - Skirts for air cushion vehicles that are formed from material that is tensively strengthened in at least one direction, and preferably two different directions, so as to resolve and reduce the axial and radial stresses in the skirt. The material may be strengthened by incorporation of reinforcing cords arranged to reduce the axial and radial stresses in the skirt both when a vehicle comprising such a skirt is static and when it is in motion. | 09-11-2008 |
| 180128000 | Having outlet for working fluid | 1 |
| 20140166382 | AIR CUSHION TRANSPORT - A movable support platform is disclosed that includes a platform, a skirt coupled to a periphery of the platform that provides an enclosed space below the platform that retains pressurized gas, and a thrust propulsion device coupled to the platform for pressurizing gas in the enclosed space. The thrust propulsion device includes an array of gas-propelling devices “distributed thrusters” that propel gas into the enclosed space below the platform. The distributed thrusters may be comprised of Nano Molecular Solid-state Electrodynamic Thrusters (“NMSET”). | 06-19-2014 |
| 180129000 | Dynamic seal or fluid curtain | 2 |
| 20100263955 | SURFACE EFFECT SEA TRAIN - A multiple unit surface effect vehicle movable through an aquatic environment is provided including connected units and lift fans. The multiple unit surface effect vehicle may further include a coupling system and/or a plurality of skirt portions connecting one of the connected units with another of the connected units. The multiple unit surface effect vehicle includes the connected units connected to form a continuous movable unit movable in an aquatic environment. Each connected unit includes a forced air containment chamber defined within each of the connected units. The forced air containment chambers of each of the connected units are connected to form a continuous pressurized air cushion. The lift fans force air into the forced air containment chamber to pressurize the continuous pressurized air cushion. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20110192664 | GROUND EFFECT LOAD TRANSPORTATION - A ground effect transport system comprising a plenum roof platform for location beneath a load carrying means, a skirt depending from the platform to form a plenum chamber with the platform, fan means on or in the platform for supplying air to the plenum chamber, wherein the skirt extends downwardly towards the ground surface and has a ground engaging support member for supporting the bottom of the skirt above the ground surface and a separate detachable sealing member for providing a seal between the bottom of the skirt and the ground surface. | 08-11-2011 |
