Patent ID: 11891166
Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  Y | IPC B

Claim 20:
21. An aircraft comprising:
a frame including a wing;
a battery carried by the frame;
a rotor coupled to the wing;
a motor operatively coupled to the rotor;
a thruster coupled to the frame; and
a processor operatively coupled to the motor, the processor to:
cause the motor to drive rotation of the rotor during a first time period of flight of the aircraft; and
cause the motor to switch from driving rotation of the rotor during the first time period to free spinning during a second time period of flight of the aircraft, the second time period different from the first time period;
cause the motor to switch from free spinning during the second time period to providing electrical energy to the battery during a third time period of flight of the aircraft, the motor to refrain from driving rotation of the rotor during the third time period, the third time period different from the first time period and the second time period; and
cause movement of the aircraft with respect to a yaw axis, a pitch axis, or a roll axis to be adjusted based on a thrust generated by the thruster when the motor is refraining from driving rotation of the rotor during the third time period.