POWER LINE INSPECTION VEHICLE

An exemplary unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV (10), mountable to a conductor of an aerial power transmission line system includes a body (12) having a rotor system (14), a motivation system (16) attached to the body (12) to motivate the UAV (10) along the conductor, a battery (18) carried by the body (1...

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Hauptverfasser:	JOHNS, William Benjamin, GRONINGA, Kirk Landon, ROBERTSON, Daniel Bryan
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng ; fre ; ger
Schlagworte:	AEROPLANES AIRCRAFT AVIATION CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTINGELECTRIC POWER CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER COSMONAUTICS ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT OR PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLEDVEHICLES ELECTRICITY ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES, IN GENERAL GENERATION HELICOPTERS INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINEDOPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES PERFORMING OPERATIONS SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY TRANSPORTING VEHICLES IN GENERAL
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Zusammenfassung:	An exemplary unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV (10), mountable to a conductor of an aerial power transmission line system includes a body (12) having a rotor system (14), a motivation system (16) attached to the body (12) to motivate the UAV (10) along the conductor, a battery (18) carried by the body (12) and electrically connected to at least one of the rotor system (14) and the motivation system (16), a monitoring tool (20) mounted with the body (12) and an inductive coil (44) carried by the body (12) and in electric connection with the battery (18), wherein the inductive coil (44) is configured to harvest electricity from the aerial power transmission line system and charge the battery (18).