JP6631367B2 - Amphibious vehicle - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an amphibious vehicle that can travel on a road as well as a general passenger car and can fly in the air.

  A vehicle that can travel on the ground by wheels and can fly in the air has been proposed in the following Patent Document 1 under the name of “air vehicle system capable of traveling on the ground”.

JP 2012-505792 A

  The same applies to the vehicle proposed in the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, but the amphibious vehicles that have been proposed so far mainly fly in the air and can travel on the ground, but have a large passage width. Because of the required speed and low traveling speed and steering on the ground, it was not possible to run on a normal road mixed with other vehicles.

  The present invention has sufficient functions as a vehicle so that it can travel on a normal road in the same manner as a general passenger car mixed with other vehicles, and then fly in the air like a helicopter or a small aircraft It is an object of the present invention to provide an amphibious vehicle that can perform the above operations.

  In order to solve the above problems, the present invention has a chassis, a wheel, a prime mover, a steering device, and a braking device of a passenger car, and the chassis is positioned at or near the center of gravity of the chassis and urges air vertically downward. A levitation fan, a posture control fan positioned at a front end, a rear end, a left end, and a right end thereof for urging air in a vertical direction, and a flight control device for controlling output of the levitation fan and the posture control fan in a related manner The present invention proposes an amphibious vehicle characterized by the following.

  The above-mentioned amphibious vehicle may further include a wing member that is folded within a vehicle width during taxiing and is deployed when flying in the air to generate buoyancy by flight.

  As described above, if the device as a vehicle has a chassis, a wheel, a prime mover, a steering device, and a braking device of a passenger car, it can travel on a road equivalent to a general passenger car by mixing with other vehicles, Further, the chassis has a levitation fan located at or near the center of gravity of the chassis to urge air vertically downward, and a posture positioned at the front end, rear end, left end and right end thereof to urge air vertically. If a control fan and a flight control device for controlling the outputs of the levitation fan and the attitude control fan in relation to each other are provided, the helicopter or the small aircraft is driven in the air by operating the levitation fan and the attitude control fan. You can fly as well.

  Further, if such a flightable vehicle further has wing members that are folded within the width of the vehicle during taxiing and are deployed when flying in the air to generate buoyancy by flying, the road may be broken. By means that do not prevent the vehicle from traveling in the same manner as a general passenger car when mixed with other vehicles, buoyancy can be obtained by flight when flying in the air.

1 is an oblique front perspective view of an amphibious vehicle according to one embodiment of the present invention. It is a perspective view from the slanting rear of the same Example. It is a top view of the state where the wing member of the example was expanded. It is a top view which shows the same Example from which the wing member and the upper cover panel of the chassis were removed. It is a bottom view of the embodiment. It is a side view which shows the Example in the cross section of the part of the floating means. It is a side view which shows the Example which added the folding type propeller for flight propulsion to the said Example.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 to 7, the amphibious vehicle according to the present invention includes a chassis 10 similar to a passenger car, a left front wheel 12FL, a right front wheel 12FR, a left rear wheel 12RL, and a right rear wheel 12RR. The left rear wheel 12RL and the right rear wheel 12RR are driven by a gasoline engine 14 in this embodiment as a prime mover through a normal wheel driving device (not shown), and the output of the gasoline engine 14 is , Is controlled by a normal accelerator pedal operation (not shown). The prime mover may be a gas turbine or a combination of an electric motor and a storage battery. The left front wheel 12FL and the right front wheel 12FR are steered by a steering wheel 16 via a normal steering device not shown. Further, although not shown in the drawing, the left front wheel 12FL, the right front wheel 12FR, the left rear wheel 12RL, and the right rear wheel 12RR are braked by a normal wheel brake device controlled by a normal brake pedal depression operation. It has become.

  The vehicle further includes a levitation fan 18 located at or near the center of gravity of the entire vehicle and for urging air vertically downward, and a vertical fan located at the front end, rear end, left end and right end of the chassis 10 to move air vertically. In the folded state, as shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the small attitude control fans 20F, 20T, 20L, and 20R are supported by the pair of support members 22L and 22R so as to fit within the vehicle width. As shown in FIG. 3, the wing members 24L and 24R are extended so as to protrude from both sides of the pair of support members 22L and 22R. A wing member 24C is stretched between the upper ends of the support members 22L and 22R. When the wing members 24L and 24R are expanded so as to protrude to both sides from the support members 22L and 22R, the wing members 24L, 24R and 24C. Form an integral wing. Further, in the illustrated embodiment, near the front end of the chassis 10, horizontal auxiliary wings 26L and 26R are provided so as to be able to enter and exit between a position stored in the chassis 10 and a position protruding from the chassis 10. The levitating fan 18 is a double reversing fan, and is driven by a prime mover, which is the gasoline engine 14 in the illustrated embodiment. The gasoline engine 14 further drives the generator 28 so that the attitude control fans 20F, 20T, 20L, 20R are electrically driven by the electric power generated thereby and stored in the storage battery not shown. Has become. The deployment and folding of the wing members 24L and 24R, and the entrance and exit of the auxiliary wings 26L and 26R are also performed by the electric power stored in the storage battery.

  Although not shown in the drawing, a control stick similar to that of a normal helicopter or the like is provided in front of the driver's seat of the chassis, and the output of the gasoline engine 14 when driving the levitation fan 18 is output to the control stick. Controlled by a built-in levitation control knob. The attitude of the chassis 10 in the air is controlled by controlling the electric drive of each of the attitude control fans 20F, 20T, 20L, and 20R. The rotation of the attitude control fans 20F, 20T, 20L, and 20R may be controlled in both forward and reverse directions, and the attitude of the chassis 10 may be adjusted according to the tilt of the control stick in the front-rear direction and the left-right direction. The respective rotation directions and rotation speeds are controlled in relation to each other by a posture control device (not shown) so as to incline the front, rear, left and right.

  The levitation fan 18 raises and lowers the levitation altitude of the chassis 10 according to the driving speed thereof, and moves the chassis 10 in the front, rear, left and right directions according to the levitation attitude of the chassis 10. Therefore, the control of the altitude, direction, and speed in flight is performed by controlling the driving speed of the levitation fan 18 by the control stick and controlling the individual rotation direction and rotation speed of the attitude control fans 20F, 20T, 20L, 20R.

  The amphibious vehicle according to the present invention can take off and land vertically by the levitating fan 18, but when there is a runway, the wing members 24L and 24R are deployed as shown in FIG. It may take off and land with buoyancy. At this time, the auxiliary wings 26L and 26R may also be simultaneously protruded out of the chassis 10 as shown in the figure to stabilize the buoyancy by the wing members 24L, 24R and 24C.

  In the embodiment shown in FIG. 7, foldable propellers 30L, 30R are provided on hinge portions 32L, 32R between the upper ends of support members 22L, 22R and wing members 24L, 24R, and are provided in hinge portions 32L, 32R. It is designed to be driven by a built-in electric motor. In the figure, the wing members 24L and 24R are folded so as to overlap the support members 22L and 22R, and are not shown in the figure. Also, the propeller 30R and the hinge portion 32R are not shown in the drawing because they overlap with the propeller 30L and the hinge portion 32L, respectively. These propellers can generate a propulsive force in level flight and can impart a yaw moment to the aircraft during hovering.

  Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications can be made to such embodiments within the scope of the present invention.

  10: chassis, 12FL, 12FR, 12RL, 12RR: left front wheel, right front wheel, left rear wheel, right rear wheel, 14: gasoline engine, 16: steering wheel, 18: floating fan, 20F, 20T, 20L, 20R: posture Control fan, 22L, 22R: support member, 24L, 24R, 24C: wing member, 26L, 26R: auxiliary wing, 28: generator, 30L, 30R: folding propeller, 32L, 32R: hinge portion

Claims (1)

A chassis of a passenger car, wheels, a prime mover, a steering device, a braking device, and the chassis has a floating fan positioned at or near the center of gravity and for urging air vertically downward, a front end, a rear end, An attitude control fan that is located at the left end and the right end and urges air in the vertical direction, and a flight control device that controls the outputs of the levitation fan and the attitude control fan are provided. An amphibious vehicle characterized by being provided as a single fan in a chassis.

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