US 12,275,526 B2
Electric vertical take-off and landing blended wing-body aircraft
Stephen Tibbitts, Spanaway, WA (US); and Ben Gould, Roswell, GA (US)
Assigned to ZEVA INC.
Appl. No. 17/252,201
Filed by ZEVA INC., Tacoma, WA (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 17, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/037453
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 14, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/241768, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 19, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/685,674, filed on Jun. 15, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0253246 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
Int. Cl. B64C 39/02 (2023.01); B60L 15/20 (2006.01); B60L 50/60 (2019.01); B64C 29/02 (2006.01); B64C 39/06 (2006.01); B64C 39/10 (2006.01); B64D 27/24 (2006.01); B64D 47/02 (2006.01)
CPC B64C 39/026 (2013.01) [B60L 15/20 (2013.01); B60L 50/60 (2019.02); B64C 29/02 (2013.01); B64C 39/06 (2013.01); B64C 39/10 (2013.01); B64D 27/24 (2013.01); B60L 2200/10 (2013.01); B64C 2039/105 (2013.01); B64D 47/02 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An aircraft comprising:
a substantially disc-shaped blended wing-body including an upper surface, a rear surface, a trailing edge and an outside edge;
a plurality of power sources housed within the blended wing-body;
a plurality of thrust pod arms attached at a first end to the blended wing-body and each arm has a second end;
a plurality of thruster pairs, each of the plurality of thruster pairs connected to the second end of a thrust pod arm;
an ingress/egress hatch located on the rear surface;
a plurality of navigation and strobe lights located on the outside edge;
front landing gear attached to the upper surface including a pair of parallel motor pod struts or arms, extending out from the upper surface with at least two bottom facing struts extending further to support the front landing gear;
a main landing gear attached proximate the trailing edge;
a set of right and left elevons attached to the rear surface proximate the trailing edge;
a cockpit area including a viewing window located in the upper surface;
a projectable warning light landing zone system including a projector located proximate the trailing edge of the aircraft, and an imaging system coupled to the projector where the imaging system is adapted to project a warning pattern on a surface;
a plurality of flight control instruments located proximate the cockpit area or in a head mounted display; and
a flight control system.