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Vertical Take-Off And Landing Aircraft - EP4153483

The patent EP4153483 was granted to Archer Aviation on Mar 27, 2024. The application was originally filed on May 18, 2021 under application number EP21731648A. The patent is currently recorded with a legal status of "Granted And Under Opposition".

EP4153483

ARCHER AVIATION
Application Number
EP21731648A
Filing Date
May 18, 2021
Status
Granted And Under Opposition
Feb 23, 2024
Grant Date
Mar 27, 2024
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Patent Citations (13) New

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Non-Patent Literature (NPL) Citations (23) New

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OPPOSITION- Anonymous, "Aerial ridesharing at scale (Whitepaper)", Uber Elevate (accessed via the Wayback Machine), Uber Elevate (accessed via the Wayback Machine), URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20200411100528/https://www.uber.com/us/en/elevate/vision/, XP093252532-
OPPOSITION- Anonymous, "Does number blades airplane propeller make difference", how things fly, pages 1 - 2, how things fly, URL: https://howthingsfly.si.edu/as k-an-explainer/does-number- blades-airplane-propeller- make- difference#:~:text=With%20th e%20thrust%20from%20the% 20engine%2C%20each%20bla de,However%2C%20you%20c an%27t%20just%20add%20m ore%20blades%20indefinitiely, XP093245087-
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OPPOSITION- Anonymous, " Flight control for tiltrotor", Powered by Discourse, (20200301), pages 1 - 6, XP093225488-
OPPOSITION- Anonymous, "How does a tiltrotor yaw while in vertical flight? ", Aviation, (20210907), pages 1 - 2, XP093225494-
OPPOSITION- Anonymous, "Tilt Rotor Planes", Internet citation, pages 1 - 5, Internet citation, URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20191118123000/http://ardupilot.org/plane/docs/guide-tilt-rotor.html, XP093224999-
OPPOSITION- Anonymous, "Tiltrotor", Wikipedia, Wikipedia, URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiltrotor&oldid=943815872, XP093252524-
OPPOSITION- Anonymous, "UAV R&D", (accessed via the Wayback Machine), (accessed via the Wayback Machine), URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20200114120358/https:/www.kari.re.kr/eng/sub03_01_01.do#link , XP093252516-
OPPOSITION- Anonymous, "Wing configuration", Wikipedia, Wikipedia, URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wing_configuration&oldid=914626617, XP093252526-
OPPOSITION- D16 - Uber Elevate eCRMs between 2017 and September 2019-
OPPOSITION- D1c - Public-private joint venture for development of Personal Air vehicle and revitalization of transportation industry, 03.09.2019-
OPPOSITION- D21 - CFR 25.905, 31 December2019-
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OPPOSITION- D23 - Airbus A400 engine starting propeller pitch changing, 27.12.2022-
OPPOSITION- D24 - C130K Propeller Blade Angle PPRuNe Forums, 10-14 March 2011-
OPPOSITION- D30 - Gimpo Airport -> Jamsil in 12minutes? A private aircraft, OPPAV, floats in the City sky! 10.04.2021-
OPPOSITION- D33 - Uber Air Vehicle Requirements and Missions, 02.05.2020 (but no date to be found on paper)-
OPPOSITION- D6 - Hyundai Motor, Uber Urban Air Mobility Vehicle, 07.01.2020-
OPPOSITION- Holder Steve Markmanbill , "Straight Up A history of Vertical Flight", Straight Up, (20000101), page 58, XP093228655-
OPPOSITION- Kim Jun-Young, "Autonomous Flying Personal Aircraft, Flying with Proprietary Technology", wwwsegye.com, pages 1 - 5, wwwsegye.com, URL: https://wwwsegye.com/news View/20191016513756, XP093245054-
OPPOSITION- Xuwing, "VTBIRD VTOL 3 Minutes Design Explanations", URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd04QeJcwRY, XP093252519-
OPPOSITION- Kim Sung Joon, Lee Seung-Gyu, "Structural Sizing for Optionally Piloted PAV Preliminary Design", Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics, (20200301), vol. 28, no. 1, doi:10.12985/ksaa.2020.28.1.083, ISSN 1225-9705, pages 83 - 89, XP093218601
OPPOSITION- Bacchini Alessandro, Cestino Enrico, "Electric VTOL Configurations Comparison", Aerospace, (20190101), vol. 6, no. 26, doi:10.3390/aerospace6030026, XP055816938

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