Patent ID: 11898368
Assignee: WING AVIATION LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC E  B  G  Y | IPC B  E  G

Claim 0:
1. A modular housing structure for housing a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), comprising:
a plurality of modular housing sections configured to hold a plurality of UAVs, the plurality of modular housing sections vertically stackable, each one of the modular housing sections including:
a landing pad adapted to land a given UAV of the UAVs, the landing pad mechanically actuated to extend from an interior of a given modular housing section to receive and deploy the given UAV and withdraw into the interior; and
charging electronics disposed in or on the landing pad and configured to charge the given UAV,

wherein the modular housing structure supports a scalable number of the UAVs based on a number of the modular housing sections vertically stacked on each other at a time,
wherein one of the modular housing sections includes first and second landing pads that are mechanically connected to each other and share a track that actuates the first and second landing pads together by sliding the first landing pad out a first side of the modular housing structure when deploying the first landing pad and sliding the second landing pad out a second side of the modular housing structure, opposite the first side, when deploying the second landing pad.