US 12,391,379 B2
Personal flying apparatus incorporating a harness and method of facilitating human flight
Maurice Rheal Bard, Scarborough (CA); Kasha Aniela Noga Bard, Scarborough (CA); and Ella Teresa Noga Bard, Scarborough (CA)
Assigned to Maurice Rheal Bard, Scarborough (CA)
Filed by Maurice Rheal Bard, Scarborough (CA); Kasha Aniela Noga Bard, Scarborough (CA); and Ella Teresa Noga Bard, Scarborough (CA)
Filed on Sep. 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/370,152.
Application 18/370,152 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CA2023/050220, filed on Feb. 23, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/314,068, filed on Feb. 25, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0002051 A1, Jan. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. B64C 39/02 (2023.01); B64C 31/028 (2006.01); B64C 33/02 (2006.01)
CPC B64C 39/026 (2013.01) [B64C 31/028 (2013.01); B64C 33/02 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A personal flying apparatus comprising:
a body structure adapted to support and detachably couple a user thereto; and
a pair of wings rotationally coupled to opposite sides of the body structure and powered by a battery; and
wherein the body structure comprises a torso portion and a leg portion;
the leg portion being hingedly coupled to the torso portion;
wherein the torso portion is configured to hold a user therein and a pair of torso supports are positioned at opposite lateral sides of torso portion;
the pair of wings being rotationally coupled to the pair of torso supports respectively;
the leg portion comprising a pair of leg struts configured to be coupled to a user's legs and the leg struts being free to move independent of one another;
said leg portion is moveable between a rotatable position wherein the leg portion rotates freely relative to the torso portion and a locked position wherein rotation is inhibited;
wherein the leg portion rotates freely relative to the torso portion during a take off phase and a landing phase of flight and is fixed in an inline position thereto during flight;
the pair of wings extending backwardly from a front portion of the pair of torso struts to a rear portion of the leg struts and having at least a humerus portion and radius portion;
the radius portion is configured to rotate relative to the humerus;
wherein the pair of wings each include a series of structural braces extending rearwardly from the humerus and radius to provide structural support; the structural braces being curved to provide a concave bottom surface of the of wings; and
wherein, during use, the wings mimic the motion of bird flight.