Bionic stratospheric airships

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11124282-B2
Application number	US-201916422918-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 24, 2019
Priority date	May 25, 2018
Publication date	Sep 21, 2021
Grant date	Sep 21, 2021

Abstract

The present invention discloses bionic stratospheric airships, related to the technical field of aircraft. The hull shape of the bionic stratospheric airship is obtained by lofting the shape of physalia physalis; one or more buoyancy gasbags, one or more ballonets, and a heat regulating gasbag are provided inside the hull; the buoyancy gasbags are filled with lighter-than-air gas and are provided at an upper layer inside the hull; the ballonets are filled with air and are provided at a lower layer inside the hull; the heat regulating gasbag is provided at a middle layer inside the hull and is filled with a working medium reversibly regulated between a gas state and a liquid state; and a thermodynamic cycle device for heating or pressurizing the working medium is provided inside the heat regulating gasbag.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A bionic stratospheric airship, comprising:
a hull, wherein the hull comprises a shape resembling a shape of physalia physalis; one or more buoyancy gasbags, one or more ballonets, and a heat regulating gasbag provided inside the hull; wherein
the buoyancy gasbags are filled with lighter-than-air gas and are provided at an upper layer inside the hull;
the ballonets are filled with air and are provided at a lower layer inside the hull;
the heat regulating gasbag is provided at a middle layer inside the hull and is filled with a working medium reversibly regulated between a gas state and a liquid state; and
a thermodynamic cycle device for heating or pressurizing the working medium is provided inside the heat regulating gasbag;
the buoyancy gasbags comprise four buoyancy gasbags evenly distributed inside the hull, the bottom of each buoyancy gasbag provided with a first valve for gas charging and discharging;
the ballonets comprise four ballonets evenly distributed inside the hull, the bottom of each of the ballonets provided with a second valve for deflating the ballonet and an air blower for inflating the ballonet; wherein:
the four buoyancy gasbags and the four ballonets are arranged in sequence end to end from left to right;
lower edges of corresponding sides of the two buoyancy gasbags near two sides of the hull abut lower edges of corresponding sides of the ballonets near the two sides of the hull;
lower edges of two opposite sides of the buoyancy gasbags in the center of the hull abut lower edges of two opposite sides of the ballonets in the center of the hull; and
edges of side walls of the heat regulating gasbag are located between the two buoyancy gasbags at the two sides of the hull and the two ballonets at the two sides of the hull, the heat regulating gasbag encompassing an enclosed space between the buoyancy gasbags in the center of the hull and the ballonets in the center of the hull.

2. The bionic stratospheric airship according to claim 1 , wherein the gas with which the buoyancy gasbags are filled is helium.

3. The bionic stratospheric airship according to claim 2 , wherein the envelope of the hull is made of a composite material.

4. The bionic stratospheric airship according to claim 1 , wherein components of the working medium with which the heat regulating gasbag is filled is ammonia.

5. The bionic stratospheric airship according to claim 4 , wherein the thermodynamic cycle device comprises a compressing unit configured to convert the working medium from the gas state to the liquid state, and a heating unit configured to convert the working medium from the liquid state to the gas state.

Assignees

• National Univ Of Defense Technology

Inventors

• Yang Yueneng
• Xu Xin
• Zhang Shifeng
• Zheng Wei
• Yan Ye
• Zhou Jianghua

Classifications

• B64B1/02 Primary

  Non-rigid airships (B64B1/58 takes precedence; balloons B64B1/40) · CPC title

• B64B1/62 Primary

  Controlling gas pressure, heating, cooling, or discharging gas · CPC title

• B64B1/58 Primary

  Arrangements or construction of gas-bags; Filling arrangements · CPC title