Looking back at Amazon's 2016 patents in the field of drones

As Amazon increasingly hopes to build a complete supply chain logistics system, the home appliance giant has invested huge resources in the past year including drones and transportation, and has also approved a number of key patents related to these fields. Application.

In December last year, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared with the outside world the video footage of the first successful delivery of Amazon drones; in August 2016, Amazon showed off its own cargo aircraft fleet AmazonOne. Amazon has been branded on both sides of the fuselage; in the previous year, Amazon also successfully purchased thousands of cargo trucks to meet their shipping needs, and for the first time in the annual report called "transport service provider" ".

In fact, since the launch of the two-day delivery and delivery service on the same day, Amazon's logistics and transportation costs have climbed. According to Amazon’s earnings report released last September, the company’s transportation costs rose by 43% to $3.9 billion.

Let's take a brief look at Amazon's patent applications for drones and transportation that were approved in the past year:

At the end of 2014, Amazon applied to the US Trademark Patent Office for a patent called “Air Logistics Center”. To put it simply, the company wants to build a floating logistics center at high altitude and then use the drone to deliver the goods to consumers. It is reported that Amazon will deploy these suspended warehouses in advance over designated areas, and then assign a small connection "spaceship" to transport the goods ordered by the consumers to the nearest suspended warehouse from the destination distribution area. Finally, the drone will come. Complete the final mile of delivery.

Moreover, the patent was officially approved in December 2016.

Earlier this month, Amazon was granted a patent related to high-speed networking, which involved how to make autonomous trucks or cars adapt to the problem of reversible lanes on highways. In this patented technology, Amazon also designed an expressway network system that allows auto-driving cars to maintain information communication with each other so that the vehicle can instantly learn the direction of the lane change, or the vehicle can cross the state and When the state borders, it automatically adapts to the laws and regulations of other states.

Voice-controlled pocket drone

Amazon applied for a patent on a micro personal assistant drone last year. The patent shows that the micro drone is only pocket-sized, equipped with biometric and voice-activated technology, supports face and speech recognition, and even can be parked in the police. On the epaulettes as a police assistant. Moreover, it not only recognizes the face, but also recognizes the owner's voice. The police can command the drone to stop in a specific area through voice control commands, provide stable video recording, and even completely replace the existing police car. Car recording device.

In September last year, Amazon was granted a system patent application for landing drones on trucks or trucks. According to outside analysis, this patent has two important meanings: First, let the drone save energy by riding a truck ride without affecting the delivery time. Second, future drones can land on nearby trucks when the battery is too low or faulty.

Underground tunnel delivery network

Last year, Amazon applied for a patent on the transportation of goods through the underground tunnel + transmission, which is one of the company's most ambitious patent applications. Amazon believes that transporting goods through underground tunnels can completely avoid road congestion, and can also greatly shorten the transit time of goods by directly connecting these tunnels to airports, Amazon delivery centers, and even customers' homes.

The patent describes a delivery system for docking "Docking StaTIon" at the height of a building. Amazon's delivery drones can be used to charge and avoid extreme weather. Insurance, providing better delivery services. Specifically, Amazon plans to build a “fueling apron” for drones, such as street lights, telephone booths, signal towers, and other suitable buildings. All “fueling aprons” are connected to the control center, which is convenient for the operator to deploy the drones and provide more accurate position information for the drones. In the case of a sudden change in weather, the drone can take a break on the “tarmac” and the design of the shelter is also described in the patent.

For some bulky and overweight goods, Amazon also applied for a system patent that was delivered by multiple drones. The UAV used in Amazon's “Giant Transporter” cluster is a small four-axis drone that can fly for 30 minutes with a load of 10 pounds (about 4.5 kg). This “mega-transporter” cluster is highly flexible at runtime, and the cluster can handle different combinations of different combinations to form different cluster shapes. For example, Amazon's drone cluster can form at least a cluster of squares, diamonds, cones, and even a variety of irregular shapes. These different matrices can carry goods of different shapes, sizes, and weights.

Moreover, when performing tasks in the “Giant Transporter” cluster, individual small drones can also perform some tasks separately from the drone cluster by command, or even deliver the goods independently, and send some light and small goods to the designated place. .

According to the news, Amazon submitted the patent application on February 19, 2015, and was finally approved on December 29, 2016.

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