ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,555, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Aircraft comprising a control unit to run at least one of rotational apparatus or control apparatus based on temperature" was invented by Yuichi Fukuchi (Saitama, Japan), Toshinori Tsukamoto (Saitama, Japan) and Azuki Ichikawa (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Freezing of an electrical component of a VTOL rotor is prevented. The aircraft 100 includes a fuselage 12, a VTOL rotor 20 including one or more blades 23 that is supported on the boom 18 to be spaced apart from the fuselage for generating thrust in a vertical direction during take-off and landi...