CN217754142U

CN217754142U - Parking apron, unmanned aerial vehicle parking device and unmanned aerial vehicle system

Info

Publication number: CN217754142U
Application number: CN202221666456.8U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王永辉
Original assignee: Guangzhou Xaircraft Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Guangzhou Xaircraft Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-06-30
Filing date: 2022-06-30
Publication date: 2022-11-08
Anticipated expiration: 2032-06-30

Abstract

The utility model provides an air park, unmanned aerial vehicle parking device and unmanned aerial vehicle system. This air park is provided with a plurality of guiding grooves for guide unmanned aerial vehicle stops to the target location, wherein: the plurality of guide grooves correspond to the plurality of lifting foot frames of the unmanned aerial vehicle one by one; the length size and the width size of the parking apron are a1 and b1 respectively, and a1 is more than b1; the length and width of each guide groove are a2 and b2 respectively, a2 is more than b2, a2 is less than a1, and b2 is less than b1; the length direction of each guide groove is consistent with the length direction of the parking apron. In the air park, the unmanned aerial vehicle landed on the air park can automatically slide and adjust to a target position through the guide groove, and accurate landing is ensured; moreover, because the length direction of every guiding groove is unanimous with the length direction on air park to be favorable to improving the utilization ratio on air park surface, improve unmanned aerial vehicle outdoor landing's wind resistance ability, improve its descending fault-tolerant rate.

Description

Parking apron, unmanned aerial vehicle parking device and unmanned aerial vehicle system

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an aerospace technical field, in particular to air park to and be provided with unmanned aerial vehicle parking device and unmanned aerial vehicle system on this air park.

Background

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles attract attention from many aspects by virtue of the advantages of flexibility, quick response, unmanned flight, low operation requirement and the like, and are popularized and applied in a plurality of fields such as agriculture, surveying and mapping, exploration and the like.

When the unmanned aerial vehicle takes off, the unmanned aerial vehicle is generally driven to the air by lift force generated by the rapid rotation of the propeller; when the unmanned aerial vehicle descends, the rotating speed of the propeller is slowed down to control the unmanned aerial vehicle to gradually descend. It is easy to know, unmanned aerial vehicle when taking off and descending, the rotatory wind that produces of screw is very big, adsorbs debris such as stone, leaf in the surrounding environment easily, leads to the fuselage part impaired, for example the stone breaks the camera lens, weeds twine the screw. Moreover, the complex environment with uneven ground and clustered weeds is not beneficial to the normal take-off and landing of the unmanned aerial vehicle.

Therefore, in order to make unmanned aerial vehicle can adapt to the complex environment, realize arbitrary take-off and landing, also in order to make unmanned aerial vehicle receive or even avoid the influence of surrounding environment debris in the in-process of taking off and landing, not only include unmanned aerial vehicle and remote controller in some unmanned aerial vehicle systems, but also be equipped with parking device for unmanned aerial vehicle. The parking device is at least provided with an air park which is used as a flying point of the unmanned aerial vehicle and is also a landing point of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The air park can play effectual guard action to it at unmanned aerial vehicle take off and land in-process to be favorable to keeping the cleanness of fuselage and camera lens.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the utility model is to provide an air park to and an unmanned aerial vehicle parking device and unmanned aerial vehicle system that are provided with this air park.

In order to achieve the above object, the utility model provides a following technical scheme:

an apron for providing a landing platform for a drone, the apron being provided with a plurality of guide slots for guiding the drone to a target position, wherein:

the guide grooves correspond to the lifting foot frames of the unmanned aerial vehicle one by one;

the length and width dimensions of the apron are a1 and b1 respectively, and a1 is more than b1;

the length and width of each guide groove are a2 and b2 respectively, a2 is more than b2, a2 is more than a1, and b2 is more than b1;

the length direction of each guide groove is consistent with the length direction of the parking apron.

Optionally, in the above-described apron, the target position is located at a bottom of the guide groove.

Alternatively, in the apron, the target position is located on a center line of a length of the guide groove and is offset from a center line of a width of the guide groove.

Alternatively, in the above-described apron, a cross-sectional area of each of the guide grooves in a cross-section perpendicular to the depth direction gradually decreases as the depth direction increases.

Optionally, in the apron, the side wall of each guide groove is formed by sequentially splicing a plurality of inclined side surfaces inclined relative to a vertical line end to end;

one end of each inclined side face is located at the bottom of the guide groove, and the other end of each inclined side face is located at an opening at the end of the guide groove.

Optionally, in the above-mentioned apron, each of said inclined side faces is a plane;

or each inclined side surface is a transition curved surface.

Alternatively, in the apron, an upper end opening of each of the guide grooves is an elliptical opening, or a rectangular opening.

Optionally, in the apron, four guide grooves are provided, and the four guide grooves are sequentially arranged in a rectangular array.

An unmanned aerial vehicle parking device is provided with the parking apron described above.

Optionally, in the above unmanned aerial vehicle docking device, a charging device is further included, and a charging interface of the charging device is located in the target position or electrically connected to the target position, so as to charge the unmanned aerial vehicle located in the target position.

An unmanned aerial vehicle system, includes unmanned aerial vehicle, still includes the unmanned aerial vehicle stop device in the above.

The utility model provides an air park, and an unmanned aerial vehicle parking device and an unmanned aerial vehicle system provided with the air park, because the guide groove is arranged on the air park, the unmanned aerial vehicle landing on the air park can automatically slide and adjust to the target position, the purpose of accurate landing is ensured, and the convenience and the high efficiency of the landing of the unmanned aerial vehicle are ensured; moreover, because the length direction of every guiding groove is unanimous with the length direction of air park to be favorable to enlarging the guiding groove at the area occupied on air park surface, can utilize air park surface to the at utmost, improve the utilization ratio on air park surface promptly, thereby be favorable to improving the anti-wind performance of unmanned aerial vehicle outdoor landing, increase substantially its landing fault-tolerant rate, also be favorable to reducing the design degree of difficulty of unmanned aerial vehicle landing procedure simultaneously.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a front view of an apron in a comparative example provided by the present invention;

fig. 2 is a front view of the apron according to a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a bottom view of the apron according to a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is an isometric view of a guide slot in a first exemplary embodiment provided by the present invention;

fig. 5 is a front view of a guide groove according to a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a bottom cross-sectional view of a guide slot in accordance with a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a front view of the apron according to the second exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a front view of the apron according to the third exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be obtained by a person skilled in the art without making any creative effort based on the embodiments in the present invention, belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

Comparative examples

In order to embody through the mode of contrast the utility model discloses an innovation technique and beneficial effect, the utility model provides a contrast embodiment. Referring specifically to fig. 1, the comparative example is a rectangular apron for providing a landing platform for an unmanned aerial vehicle. The surface of the air park is provided with four guide grooves 1' of inverted cone-shaped funnel structures, and the guide grooves correspond to four lifting foot rests of the unmanned aerial vehicle one by one. Wherein, the deepest part of the groove bottom of each guide groove 1 'is a target position 100' for the unmanned aerial vehicle to land on a landing foot stool.

When unmanned aerial vehicle descends, as long as guarantee that four take-off and landing foot rests that are located the unmanned aerial vehicle bottom descend respectively in the circular opening scope of guiding groove 1', can make unmanned aerial vehicle automatic sliding adjustment to target position 100'. It is thus clear that this guiding groove 1' is favorable to improving convenience, the high efficiency that unmanned aerial vehicle descends, can guarantee accurate descending simultaneously.

It should be noted that the "target position" referred to herein refers to a final position where the unmanned aerial vehicle is parked on the apron, i.e., an end position reached during landing, and is a takeoff position where the unmanned aerial vehicle takes off on the apron. Reference is made in particular to the lowest point of the guide groove shown in fig. 1 to 3.

Exemplary embodiment 1

Referring to fig. 2 to 6, a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides an apron for providing a landing platform for an unmanned aerial vehicle. The apron is provided with a plurality of guide grooves 1 for guiding the drone to a target position 100. Wherein:

the guide grooves 1 correspond to the landing foot stands 2 of the unmanned aerial vehicle one by one, namely the specific number of the guide grooves 1 arranged on the parking apron is equal to the number of the landing foot stands 2 of the unmanned aerial vehicle, and the arrangement mode and the relative positions of the guide grooves 1 on the parking apron correspond to the landing foot stands 2 of the unmanned aerial vehicle one by one;

the length size and the width size of the parking apron are a1 and b1 respectively, and a1 is more than b1;

the length and width of each guide groove 1 are a2 and b2 respectively, a2 is more than b2, a2 is more than a1, and b2 is more than b1;

the length direction of each guide groove 1 is consistent with the length direction of the air park, so that the occupied area of the guide grooves 1 on the surface of the air park is enlarged, and the surface of the air park can be utilized to the greatest extent.

It is thus clear that compare with the air park in the above-mentioned comparative embodiment, the utility model discloses the air park in the exemplary embodiment one, under the unchangeable condition of air park width, increased the effective area of accepting of guiding groove 1 as far as possible on length direction, improved the utilization ratio on air park surface to be favorable to improving the anti-wind performance of unmanned aerial vehicle outdoor landing, increase substantially its descending fault-tolerant rate, also be favorable to reducing the design degree of difficulty of unmanned aerial vehicle descending procedure simultaneously.

In general, the guide grooves 1 provided in the apron are identical in shape and size. Preferably, the upper opening of each guide groove 1 is an oval opening or a rectangular opening. Moreover, in general, the specific number of the guide grooves 1 provided on the apron is greater than or equal to three. For example, referring to fig. 2, the apron is provided with four guiding grooves 1, and the four guiding grooves 1 are sequentially arranged in a rectangular array.

In the apron, the cross-sectional area of each guide groove 1 in the cross-section perpendicular to the depth direction gradually decreases as the depth direction increases. In concrete implementation, the target position 100 is preferably provided at the bottommost portion of the apron guide groove 1. Referring to fig. 5, the target position 100 is preferably located on the length center line L1 of the guide groove 1 and is offset from the width center line L2 of the guide groove 1. In short, the above-described target position 100 is close to one end of the guide groove 1 in the longitudinal direction. As shown in fig. 5, the target position 100 is offset from a width center line L2 of the guide groove 1, and thus also from a center point of the guide groove 1 (i.e., an intersection of L1 and L2), the width center line L2 being a center line that coincides with the width direction of the guide groove; meanwhile, the target position 100 is located on a longitudinal center line L1 of the guide groove 1, and the longitudinal center line L1 is a center line aligned with the longitudinal direction of the guide groove.

Referring to fig. 4 to 6, in the parking apron, in the implementation, the side wall of each guide groove 1 is formed by sequentially splicing a plurality of inclined side surfaces inclined relative to a vertical line (i.e. a straight line perpendicular to a horizontal plane) end to end; one end of each inclined side face is located at the bottom of the guide groove 1, and the other end of each inclined side face is located at an end opening of the guide groove 1.

Wherein each inclined side surface can be a plane surface, so that the inner cavity of the guide groove 1 forms a polyhedral structure similar to an inclined cone. Alternatively, in other embodiments, each inclined side surface may be a transition curved surface, so that the annular side wall of the guiding groove 1 forms a profiled funnel structure with smooth transition along the circumferential direction.

Referring to fig. 4 and 5, in specific implementation, the side walls of each guide groove 1 are formed by connecting a first side 101, a second side 102, a third side 103, a fourth side 104, and a fifth side 105 end to end in sequence, and each side may have different inclination angles, and the inclination angles range from 0 to 90 °.

Preferably, the first side 101 is a hemispherical surface, the second side 102 and the fifth side 105 are respectively located at two sides of L1 and are symmetrical, and the third side 103 and the fourth side 104 are respectively located at two sides of L1 and are symmetrical. It is easy to understand that the first side 101, the second side 102, the third side 103, the fourth side 104, and the fifth side 105 may all be curved structures, so that the guide slot 1 forms a smooth curved slot with the deepest slot bottom position at the target position 100; in addition, the first side 101, the second side 102, the third side 103, the fourth side 104, and the fifth side 105 may also be inclined plane structures that are sequentially spliced, and in this case, the guide groove 1 may also play a role of guiding the unmanned aerial vehicle lifting/lowering foot rest 2. Consequently, to the concrete shape of guiding groove lateral wall, the utility model discloses do not specifically prescribe a limit to, as long as can reach the purpose that guides unmanned aerial vehicle to the target location can.

Exemplary embodiment II

Referring to fig. 7, a second exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides an air park, which is different from the air park in the first exemplary embodiment only in that:

the upper end opening of each guide groove 1 is a rectangular opening, the annular side wall of each guide groove 1 can be in a smooth-transition oblique cone shape without obvious side edges (at the moment, a straight line in the guide groove 1 in the figure 7 represents an arc-shaped transition part with larger bending deformation degree);

alternatively, the upper end opening of each guide groove 1 is a rectangular opening, and the annular side wall thereof may be formed by splicing a plurality of inclined planes (in this case, the straight line in the guide groove 1 in fig. 7 represents the splicing position of the inclined planes).

Exemplary embodiment three

Referring to fig. 8, a third exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides an apron, which is different from the apron of the first exemplary embodiment only in that:

the upper end opening of each guide groove 1 is a rectangular opening, the right angle of each guide groove is an arc-shaped contour, and the annular side wall of each guide groove can be in a smooth transition inclined cone shape (at the moment, a straight line in each guide groove 1 in fig. 8 represents an arc-shaped transition position with larger bending deformation degree);

alternatively, the upper end opening of each guide groove 1 is a rectangular opening, and the annular side wall thereof may be formed by splicing a plurality of inclined surfaces (in this case, the straight line in the guide groove 1 in fig. 8 represents the splicing position of the inclined plane).

Exemplary embodiment four

The fourth exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides an unmanned aerial vehicle docking device, which is provided with the apron described in the first or second exemplary embodiment or the third exemplary embodiment.

Further, be provided with charging device among this unmanned aerial vehicle parking device, charging device's the interface that charges is located the target location 100 department on air park, or is connected with the target location 100 electricity on air park, can take off and land the foot rest 2 electricity with the unmanned aerial vehicle that is located target location 100 and be connected to charge for unmanned aerial vehicle.

During specific implementation, unmanned aerial vehicle stop includes the box body and sets up the electrical part at the box body, and above-mentioned parking apron is the horizontal upper side board of this box body, and above-mentioned charging device is the battery that sets up in the box body.

Exemplary embodiment five

The utility model discloses exemplary embodiment five provides an unmanned aerial vehicle system, and it includes unmanned aerial vehicle to and the unmanned aerial vehicle stop device in the above-mentioned exemplary embodiment four.

Finally, it should also be noted that, herein, relational terms such as first and second, and the like may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrases "comprising a," "8230," "8230," or "comprising" does not exclude the presence of additional like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

In the present specification, the embodiments are described in a progressive manner, each embodiment focuses on differences from other embodiments, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments are referred to each other.

The previous description of the disclosed embodiments is provided to enable any person skilled in the art to make or use the present invention. Various modifications to these embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.

Claims

1. An apron for providing a landing platform for a drone, characterized in that the apron is provided with a plurality of guide slots (1) for guiding the drone to a target position (100), wherein:

the guide grooves (1) are in one-to-one correspondence with the lifting foot frames (2) of the unmanned aerial vehicle;

the length and width of each guide groove (1) are respectively a2 and b2, a2 is more than a1, and b2 is more than b1;

the length direction of each guide groove (1) is consistent with the length direction of the parking apron.

2. Apron according to claim 1, characterized in that the target position (100) is located at the bottom of the guide trough (1).

3. Tarmac according to claim 1, wherein the target position (100) is located on a length centerline (L1) of the guide groove (1) and offset from a width centerline (L2) of the guide groove (1).

4. The apron according to claim 1, characterized in that the cross-sectional area of each guide groove (1) in a cross-section perpendicular to the depth direction decreases with increasing depth.

5. The tarmac as claimed in claim 4, wherein the side walls of each guide groove (1) are formed by a plurality of inclined side surfaces inclined with respect to the vertical, joined end to end in succession;

one end of each inclined side face is located at the bottom of the guide groove (1), and the other end of each inclined side face is located at an opening at the end of the guide groove (1).

6. The apron of claim 5, wherein each of the inclined sides is planar;

or each inclined side surface is a transition curved surface.

7. The tarmac according to claim 1, wherein each of the guide grooves (1) has an opening at its upper end that is an oval opening or a rectangular opening;

and/or the parking apron is provided with four guide grooves (1), and the four guide grooves (1) are sequentially arranged in a rectangular array.

8. Unmanned aerial vehicle docking device characterized in that is provided with the apron of any one of claims 1 to 7.

9. The drone dock of claim 8, further comprising a charging device having a charging interface located at the target location (100) or electrically connected to the target location (100) for charging the drone located at the target location (100).

10. An unmanned aerial vehicle system comprising a unmanned aerial vehicle, further comprising the unmanned aerial vehicle docking apparatus of claim 8 or 9.