Patent ID: 9725168
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: B64C,B64D

Claim:
1. An unmanned aerial vehicle, comprising: a body; a plurality of arms provided on a periphery of the body; a propeller provided on each of the plurality of arms; a driving motor provided on each of the plurality of arms to drive each corresponding propeller; a gripper provided on a bottom of the body to grip an object, wherein the gripper includes: a supporting bar extending downward from the bottom of the body; and a head provided at a lower end of the supporting bar to grip the object, wherein the head includes a support, a pair of gripping members being slidable in a direction along which the gripping members come closer together, a rotating member rotatably coupled with the support and rotated clockwise or counterclockwise by an additional driving motor provided on the support, and a pair of connecting rods connecting the rotating member with the gripping members, connecting rod connected with each corresponding gripping member, and wherein the gripping members slide to come closer together or away from each other along the connecting rods when the driving motor of the support rotates the rotating member, thereby pressing against a periphery surface of the object to hold or fasten the object.