US 12,269,623 B2
Coating repair application system using remotely piloted aircraft
Clayton Eduardo Rodrigues, Rio de Janeiro (BR); Wilson Da Cunha Lara Junior, São José dos Campos (BR); Ricardo Compiani Tavares, Rio de Janeiro (BR); Carlos Cesar Aparecido Eguti, São José dos Campos (BR); Wesley Rodrigues De Oliveira, São José dos Campos (BR); Ulisses Haber Canuto, São José dos Campos (BR); Paulo Henrique Giusti, Rio de Janeiro (BR); Andre Koebsch, Rio de Janeiro (BR); Vicente Carlos Fernandes, Rio de Janeiro (BR); and Kleber Roberto Da Silva Santos, São José dos Campos (BR)
Assigned to Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.—Petrobras, Rio de Janeiro (BR); and Instituto Tecnológico De Aeronáutica—ITA, São José dos Campos (BR)
Filed by Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.—Petrobras, Rio de Janeiro (BR); and Instituto Tecnológico De Aeronáutica—ITA, São José dos Campos (BR)
Filed on Dec. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/077,576.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 024961 7 (BR), filed on Dec. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0182932 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
Int. Cl. B64U 20/70 (2023.01); B05C 5/02 (2006.01); B05C 21/00 (2006.01); B64U 20/87 (2023.01); B64U 101/26 (2023.01); B64U 101/28 (2023.01)
CPC B64U 20/70 (2023.01) [B05C 5/02 (2013.01); B05C 21/005 (2013.01); B64U 20/87 (2023.01); B64U 2101/26 (2023.01); B64U 2101/28 (2023.01); B64U 2201/20 (2023.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A coating repair application system comprising:
remotely piloted aircraft;
a portable painting system comprising:
a flexible painting hose;
a paint application nozzle; and
a nozzle extension fluidically connecting the paint application nozzle and the flexible painting hose, the nozzle extension supporting the paint application nozzle such that the paint application nozzle extends beyond an outer periphery of the remotely piloted aircraft;
a linear guide configured to laterally move the nozzle and the nozzle extension;
distance sensors configured to measure a distance between the paint application nozzle and a frontal obstacle;
a camera arranged to capture an image of the frontal obstacle and the paint application nozzle;
a remote control configured to control the remotely piloted aircraft or the portable painting system,
a battery; and
a lattice structure supporting at least the battery, the flexible painting hose the nozzle, and the nozzle extension.