Flying device

Technical field and background technology

Amusement park rides that give participants the feeling of flying or flying are known as carnival attractions. However, known flight devices are configured so that participants or users do not have the opportunity to be actively involved while using such amusement park rides. On the contrary, participants are forced to sit on rails, such as roller coasters, vertical columns, or rods, in seats that follow a defined path under forced control. .. Therefore, participants can only ride and cannot decide the route of the event themselves. He cannot positively influence the orbital path or flight process.

A problem to be solved by the present invention is to make available a flight device that allows participants to actively participate in a flight or flight experience. This includes not only amusement park equipment, but also equipment for training the physical and intellectual abilities that are essential to the ability to master flight equipment in particular.

In order to solve this problem, we propose a flight device having the characteristics of claim 1.

Therefore, the flight device can accommodate a hall and preferably one, but in some cases two or more people, can take off vertically, and then fly freely through the hall. Includes at least one free flight unit, which can be done.

This hole is designed so that the boundaries of the hole prevent flight units from leaving the hole during flight. This can be achieved by providing closed walls and closed ceilings in the hall. However, it is not absolutely necessary to close the boundaries without gaps. The boundaries can also be defined by a grid so that the hall forms a cage for the flight unit, so to speak. There is no need to even demarcate the boundaries by mechanical means. Remote control can even be used to prevent the flight unit from leaving the limited area. Thus, for example, the flight unit can be forced aside or lowered when approaching this type of vertical boundary.

The term "hall" is intended to include a wide variety of geometrically shaped structures as long as they can adequately accommodate free flight units. The simplest and most economically advantageous shape is that of a convex structure on all sides (claim 2), especially that of a box-shaped structure with flat rectangular sides (claim 3). However, non-flat boundary regions, such as circular upright boundary regions (Claim 4), are similarly possible.

The structure does not have to be convex on all sides. One possibility considered is that of a flight tunnel design (Claim 5), in particular having a self-circulating flight tunnel that allows the flight unit to fly in a closed path (Claim 6). ).

According to claim 7, it is also possible to combine a large number of holes of different types.

To ensure that the feeling of free flight is clear enough, the flight units and holes should have a specific size ratio to each other so that the flight units can move sufficiently and do not approach the boundaries too quickly. Must have. For example, a box-shaped hole should be sized to be 20 or 30 times longer and 30 times as long and 30 times as long as a single flight unit. The horizontal dimensions of a hall are often limited not only by the economically feasible size, but also by the space available for such a hall in an amusement park or similar facility.

Flight units are primarily designed to accommodate a single person. Flight units should not be oversized to maintain the correct size ratio for practically feasible holes. That is, they should not have the size of a light aircraft. This type of flight unit is known from the prior art. So, for example, during the opening ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, an aviator equipped with a rocket-powered flight unit levitated into the stadium. An article entitled "Push the button and lift off" published in the weekly magazine "WELT am SONNTAG" No. 33, August 18, 2002, shows how close such a flight unit is to be commercially realized. It is clear from.

The present invention is suitable not only as a feature for amusement parks or carnivals for the purpose of riding, but also as a permanent fixing facility similar to that of a go-kart truck. Moreover, the present invention not only has amusement or entertainment value, but can also be used as a tool for flight training by a type of flight unit related to sports or professional purposes.

The flight unit can be designed in the form of a flight disk with a platform, with a human space in the center and also having a levitation unit assembly (Claim 8). Such a platform can have a diameter of about 3-5 m so that it can accommodate a sufficiently strong levitation unit assembly.

According to claim 9, the levitation unit assembly can include a plurality of separate levitation units that are dispersed around the center and capable of invoking a levitation effect evenly distributed around the center.

A uniform levitation effect is needed to keep the platform in the horizontal plane. A uniform levitation effect is achieved with proper control.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention according to claim 10, the levitation unit is a blower that operates vertically downward during operation, which in the embodiment according to claim 11, eg, drive according to claim 12. It can be electrically driven so that the power for it is supplied by the detection loop in the hall.

To drive the levitation unit, the alternative embodiment of claim 13 is to be placed on a platform that includes a fuel combustion motor. According to claim 14, another alternative is the levitation unit being designed in the form of a rocket booth or otherwise.

An important feature of the present invention according to claim 15 is that at least one flight unit has a position detector so that the position in the hall can be determined at any time.

This is to avoid collisions of the flight unit with the boundaries of other flight units or holes, regardless of its design, or to allow a particular flight unit to be returned to the ground if necessary (claim). 17), a prerequisite for ensuring that the flight unit can be controlled by a remote controller (claim 16).

According to claim 18, the hall can contain a minimum of two zones, and flight by a flight unit is restricted to one zone or a specific zone, eg, a beginner to a low frequency zone close to ground level. be able to.

According to claim 19, it is recommended that at least one flight unit be equipped with a distance sensor connected to a remote control device to eliminate the risk of collision.

The drawings show examples of the flight unit according to the present invention as a schematic representation.

The hole, represented by 100 in its entirety in FIG. 1a, has a box shape with ground 1, ceiling surface 2, two short sides 3 and 4, and two long sides 5 and 6. Surfaces 2 to 6 serve as closed walls and thus to prevent flight unit 10 (FIG. 2) flying in said hall from exiting hall 100, or as an "electronic wall" associated with control of flight unit 10. , Form designable boundaries to prevent the flight unit from exiting the box-shaped space.

The box shape is just one concrete example. FIG. 1b shows an alternative configuration of Hall 200 with an upright cylindrical cross-sectional shape. FIG. 5 shows a hall 300 designed in the form of a flight tunnel assembly 40.

FIG. 2 shows a single flight unit 10 designed in the shape of a flight disk in this particular embodiment, including a platform 7 with a circular cross section, with the center of the platform made of a transparent material such as plexiglass. A dome 8 is arranged, which accommodates a human during the operation of the flight unit 10. Evenly distributed over the circular area around the dome 8 are nine levitations in the form of a levitation blower 9 with a downwardly directed nozzle 11 that emits a levitation air jet, indicated by arrow 12. Unit 10'. Proper automatic control can ensure that the levitation effect of the levitation blower 9 is evenly distributed throughout the perimeter, thus keeping platform 7 substantially horizontal during flight. If the platform 7 has a diameter of about 3 m, the illustrated assembly can accommodate a levitation blower 9 that is levitation and has sufficient power to fly at least one person in the dome 8. The circular cross section of platform 7 and the number of nine floating blowers 9 are only features of the embodiment and are not essential.

A human in the dome 8 can utilize the manual control device 13, shown by the line in FIG. 2, to control the power output of the blower 9 and thus the ascent and descent of the flight unit. Humans can also determine the direction of travel by properly manipulating the levitation blower 9 or by additional nozzles (not shown) that are effective in the horizontal direction.

If the levitation unit 10'of flight unit 10 is levitation blower 9, these levitation blowers are in holes 100, 200, 300 to maintain the free mobility of flight unit 10 in holes 100, 200, 300. It can be electrically driven by the current supplied by the appropriate detection loop of.

However, the levitation blower 9 can also be driven by a fuel combustion motor, which reduces the structural volume. It is also possible to use some sort of rocket booster instead of the floating blower 9.

The technical design details of Flight Unit 10 are intended as mere examples. What is important is the concept of having such a flight unit 10 fly freely through holes 100, 200 and 300, as suggested for hole 100 in Figure 3.

Within the free interior space 20 of Hall 100, several flight units 10 can fly around freely. In FIGS. 3 and 4, flight units 10 are shown in a simplified form, in contrast to their representation in FIG.

Hall 100 has the boundaries shown in FIG. 1a, which can be created, for example, from a metal wire grid so that a flying person can see the outside and thus provide a better flight sensation.

Internally, Hall 100 is divided into three zones 23, 24 and 25 by additional boundaries 21, 22. The bottom zone 23 is close to the ground and is intended for beginners. Each flight unit 10 has a position detector associated with a remote controller 26 capable of identifying the various flight units 10 and monitoring their presence within the intended zone 23, 24, or 25. In the event of crossing the boundaries of the granted zone or in the event of a technical problem, the flight unit can be returned to the ground by remote control 26, which takes precedence over manual control 13 (FIG. 2).

In addition to control via remote controller 26, distance sensors 27 (FIG. 2) are used for individual flight units to avoid collisions with other flight units 10 or hall boundaries 3, 4, 5, and 6. Can be placed in.

The boundaries 21 and 22 that separate the zones 23, 24 and 25 of the inner 20 of the hall 100 from each other can be "electronic walls". However, if boundaries 21 and 22 are mechanical boundaries in the form of a grid wall, access to zones 24 and 25 transfers the flight unit 10 to one of the higher zones 24 and 25 and transfers it to the desired zone. Achieved by elevator 28, placed in. However, it is also possible to first lift the flight unit 10 to higher zones 24 and 25 with a cable and then disconnect only after the relevant flight units are in flight. Such cable connections secure the flight unit 10 during the takeoff phase and allow it to avoid a crash if the required levitation power is not available.

The holes 100 and 200 have a convex shape on all sides, but the "hole" 300 in FIG. 5 includes the assembly 40 of the flight tunnel 30. The flight tunnel 30 is a tubular structure whose walls can be formed by similar closed physical boundaries of the hall 100, for example by a grid or plastic panels. However, it is also possible to use an "electronic wall" for the flight tunnel 30. The internal cross section of the flight tunnel 30 is overwhelmingly convex, large enough to allow the flight unit 10 to fly without hindrance. To avoid collisions with boundaries, the inner diameter of the flight tunnel 30 should be approximately 5 to 20 times the diameter of the flight unit 10 in all directions.

The simplest embodiment of a flight tunnel is, for example, inside a relatively large box-shaped hole 100, or in a straight line that can fly across a straight path from such a hole 100 to another such hole. It is a horizontal flight tunnel.

The next stage is a ring-shaped flight tunnel that allows the flight unit 10 to follow a closed self-circulatory path.

Figure 5 shows a fairly complex flight tunnel assembly 40 that also includes an upward slope and allows travel on vast and highly diverse routes. Zone 31 operates at several levels where the three segments of the flight tunnel 30 overlap in sequence. In zone 32, the flight tunnel 30 forms a spiral path from which the flight tunnel 30 becomes a kind of dome 33, forming a "hole" with convexities on all sides. In Zone 34, the flight tunnel 30 takes a fairly upward slope of about 45 degrees.

The flight tunnel assembly 40 is supported by a gate-like support structure 35. Although it is relatively large in space, it can be easily achieved because the flight tunnel assembly 40 only has a boundary function and does not need to support anything other than its own weight.

<figref num="1a">It is a schematic diagram which shows the outline of the type of a hole considered.</figref><figref num="1b">It is a schematic diagram which shows the outline of the type of a hole considered.</figref><figref num="2">It is a perspective view of a single flight unit.</figref><figref num="3">It is sectional front view of the hole which concerns on FIG. 1a, which was cut roughly along the line III-III in FIG. 1a.</figref><figref num="4">It is a side view of the hole which concerns on FIG. 1a in the direction of arrow IV in FIG. 1a.</figref><figref num="5">It is a perspective sectional view of a model of a flight tunnel assembly.</figref>

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1 ground 2 Ceiling surface 3 sides 4 sides 5 sides 6 sides 7 platforms 8 Dome levitation unit 9 Levitating blower 10 flight units 10'levitation unit 11 nozzle 12 Levitating air jet 13 Control device 23 zones 24 zones 25 zones 26 Control unit 27 Distance sensor 28 elevator 30 flight tunnel 31 zones 32 zones 33 dome 34 zones 35 Support structure 40 flight tunnel assembly 100 holes 200 holes 300 holes