US 11,685,513 B2
Propeller apparatus of air mobility
Jay Young Yoon, Gyeonggii-do (KR); Youn Sic Nam, Daejeon (KR); Keon Woo Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Kwan Ho Moh, Gyeonggi-do (KR); and Yun Bae Chun, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed by Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Oct. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/512,772.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0053679 (KR), filed on Apr. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0340259 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. B64C 11/28 (2006.01)
CPC B64C 11/28 (2013.01) 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A propeller apparatus of an air mobility, the propeller apparatus comprising:
a housing having an inner space, wherein multiple slits are formed along a circumferential surface of the housing to extend in a vertical direction;
a driving unit provided to move in the vertical direction in the inner space of the housing and having connection portions formed to match respective ones of the slits in the housing;
multiple link units provided outside the housing and configured to match the respective ones of the slits in the housing, wherein the link units are rotatably connected to the connection portions, respectively, of the driving unit; and
multiple wing units rotatably installed to the housing, connected to the link units, respectively, and configured to be rotated in a manner of being linked with the link units, which rotate when the driving unit moves up and down, thereby being folded to or deployed from the housing;
wherein each of the link units comprises multiple link parts that are rotatably connected to each other;
wherein each of the wing units comprises:
multiple wing parts that are rotatably connected to respective ones of the link parts and are rotatably connected to each other, and
a first wing part having one end rotatably connected to the housing, and a second wing part rotatably connected to another end of the first wing part, the first wing part and the second wing part being rotatably connected to the link parts of one of the link units; and
wherein each of the link units further comprises a first link part having one end rotatably connected to one of the connection portions and another end slidably and rotatably connected to the first wing part, and a second link part having one end rotatably connected to the another end of the first link part and another end rotatably connected to the second wing part.