Patent ID: 11919652
Assignee: JOBY AERO, INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  Y | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. An aerial vehicle adapted for vertical take-off and horizontal flight, said aerial vehicle comprising:
a main vehicle body;
a plurality of electric motors;
one or more electric power sources, said one or more electric power sources electrically coupled to said electric motors;
a right side wing, said right side wing comprising:
one or more right wing rotor assemblies, each of said right wing rotor assemblies comprising one of said electric motors and a propeller and a spin axis, each of said right wing rotor assemblies attached to said right side wing by a deployment mechanism adapted to deploy said right wing rotor assemblies from a forward facing horizontal flight configuration to a vertical take-off configuration; and

a left side wing, said left side wing comprising:
one or more left wing rotor assemblies, each of said left wing rotor assemblies comprising one of said electric motors and a propeller and a spin axis, each of said left wing rotor assemblies attached to said left side wing by a deployment mechanism adapted to deploy said left wing rotor assemblies from a forward facing horizontal flight configuration to a vertical take-off configuration,, wherein said deployment mechanisms comprise:
an extendable linkage assembly, said extendable linkage assembly coupled to a wing on a first end; and
a rotor assembly mounting bracket, said rotor assembly mounting bracket comprising a central axis, said rotor assembly mounting bracket coupled to a second end of said extendable linkage,
wherein said extendable linkage is configured to deploy said rotor assembly mounting bracket from a first position where said central axis of said motor assembly mounting bracket is horizontal to a second position wherein said central axis of said rotor assembly mounting bracket is vertical, and wherein all of said rotor assembly mounting bracket is further forward from the wing in said second position than in said first position, and wherein all of said rotor assembly mounting bracket is higher in said second position than in said first position.