Amazon burning for the practical use of drone flights gets a patent for a system that makes the drone incomplete on "street lamp"

Amazon "Prime Air"While developing an aerial delivery system using a drone, I got a strange patent of" to make the street lights in the town a drowon's resting place "in order to solve the drone's battery exhaustion problem.

Unitd States Patent US 9387928 B1
(PDF file)http://pimg-fpiw.uspto.gov/fdd/28/879/093/0.pdf

This is Amazon's patented drone rest system. It is an idea that drone can arrive late by installing a helplined drone port on the streetlight.


In Amazon's plan, all the location information of the drones in flight is managed by the server, and in the event that the drones are urged to make an emergency landing, in order to land on the drone port on the nearest electric light A command is issued.


This is an example of a drone port system. The columnar object on the drone port is a drone battery, and the cylindrical object hanging under the drone is also the drone battery. If it falls into the situation that the battery can not return because of insufficient battery, when the drone arrives in the drone port in a lapse of time, the battery can be replaced and the battery shortage is solved.


It is quite useful as a helipad for emergency landing but it is considered to be on the streetlight, so the danger that the drone falls to people in the vicinity is considered. So, Amazon has devised several special hold systems for the drone port. This is an example of a device that fixes the rod that the drone uses for landing.


You can prevent situations such as locking, blown off by the wind and the drone crashing.


Another rail system which holds the rod of a drone sliding and holding ......


There is also a housing system that can automatically enclose when the drone lands.


Furthermore, there seems to be an idea of ​​dropping luggage being delivered and collecting it in a street lamp.


There is also an idea to solve the electricity of the system with sunlight.


Not all of the patented technologies will be put to practical use, but the idea of ​​effectively utilizing the street lamps common among towns as drone ports is very unique. Although it seems that hurdles are likely to be high for practical use, such as security guarantee, it has become a patent that carries out an extraordinary enthusiasm for Amazon's drone delivery project that it wants to realize drone flight using even street lights.