US 12,134,485 B2
Method of flying on the moon and a device for flying on the moon
Wenwu Zhang, Zhejiang (CN); and Yufeng Wang, Zhejiang (CN)
Assigned to Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo (CN)
Appl. No. 17/427,529
Filed by NINGBO INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Zhejiang (CN)
PCT Filed May 8, 2019, PCT No. PCT/CN2019/085934
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 30, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/155460, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 6, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 201910107832.6 (CN), filed on Feb. 2, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0135257 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. B64G 1/40 (2006.01); B64G 1/42 (2006.01); B64G 1/44 (2006.01); B64G 1/66 (2006.01)
CPC B64G 1/409 (2013.01) [B64G 1/425 (2013.01); B64G 1/443 (2013.01); B64G 1/66 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of flying on a moon, which uses a medium on the moon, the method comprising:
by using a power supply, transferring the medium into a medium accelerating module, and accelerating the medium by the medium accelerating module and ejecting the medium out from the medium accelerating module in a force having a direction and a magnitude and without changing a state of the medium, wherein a counterforce is generated in accordance with momentum conservation law with a direction of the counterforce opposite to the force direction, and a magnitude of the counterforce is the same as the force magnitude, and wherein the counterforce overcomes a lunar gravity and drives a load to take off,
wherein the medium is one or more of soil, gravel, moon rock, or moon water,
wherein the medium accelerating module comprises a driving unit and a rotating unit, wherein the driving unit drives the rotating unit to rotate by using the power supply, so that the medium is transferred to the rotating unit where the medium is accelerated and ejected from the medium accelerating module, and
wherein the driving unit is an electric motor or a motor and the rotating unit is a blade or an impeller.