Power line inspection vehicle

An exemplary unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mountable to a conductor of an aerial power transmission line system includes a body having a rotor system, a motivation system attached to the body to motivate the UAV along the conductor, a battery carried by the body and electrically connected to at leas...

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Hauptverfasser:	Robertson, Daniel Bryan, Groninga, Kirk Landon, Johns, William Benjamin
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	AEROPLANES AIRCRAFT AVIATION CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER COSMONAUTICS DESIGNING, MANUFACTURING, ASSEMBLING, CLEANING, MAINTAINING ORREPAIRING AIRCRAFT, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE ELECTRICITY GENERATION GROUND OR AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-DECK INSTALLATIONS SPECIALLYADAPTED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH AIRCRAFT HANDLING, TRANSPORTING, TESTING OR INSPECTING AIRCRAFTCOMPONENTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR HELICOPTERS INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINEDOPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES MEASURING MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES PERFORMING OPERATIONS PHYSICS PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION TESTING TRANSPORTING
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Zusammenfassung:	An exemplary unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mountable to a conductor of an aerial power transmission line system includes a body having a rotor system, a motivation system attached to the body to motivate the UAV along the conductor, a battery carried by the body and electrically connected to at least one of the rotor system and the motivation system, a monitoring tool mounted with the body and an inductive coil carried by the body and in electric connection with the battery, wherein the inductive coil is configured to harvest electricity from the aerial power transmission line system and charge the battery.