WO2018122821A2 - City autonomous airport (caa) - Google Patents

Abstract

City Autonomous Airport (CAA) (20) and means to handle autonomously booking of Aero-cars (26), (27), (28), (46)aerial containers (32) reception and parcels delivery according to a specific selected root managed via GPS and controlled path programs. The (CAA) (20) consists of: Terminal 1 to manage passenger's flights via multiple types of Aero-cars through a landing or take-off yards (30), (31) or elevator terminal, and handling aerial containers (32) in the same. Terminal 2 handles the reception of the dropped containers (32) from remotely controlled aircrafts (25) toward elevator inlets (52) to be distributed by pick-up drones to shelves and autonomous ground stations (56) in multiple floors, and handled as aerial parcel sets to delivery drones on top of elevator ends. Terminal 3 is a yard type handling of containers (32) and distributing their parcels content via UAVs. Terminal 4 is managing the operation of the CAA (20) via multiple types of autonomous UAVs, robots... etc.

Description

CITY AUTONOMOUS AIRPORT (CAA) Description of the Invention

Technical Field of Invention

This invention relates to Autonomous airpors of multiple terminals supporting passenger flights using remotely controlled flying Aero-cars and personally driven as cars, in addition to UAV use in transporting goods.

Background Art

Airports are providing transportation services in-between internationally in- between countries and locally in-between far cities, depending on manned aircrafts with relatively medium to big sizes, but in-between the nearby cities and even inside the big cities, there is no public flying machines either for personal use, or for shipments and parcels delivery.

Recently, a huge number of inventions are filed for UAVs providing different services specially for parcles pick-up and delivery, tens of billions of dollars are spent during the last decade on R&D related to UAVs, but again, even the prior art is demonstrating facilities and machines supporting the UAVs tasks such as int. Patent application No.: WO/2017/106721 A1 titled: Multi-level fulfillment center for unmanned aerial vehicles which is filed by Amazon Tech Inc., it is not demonstrating a comprehensive airport for controlling and handling these operations and tasks, and acting as an air base or center for controlling all of these UAVs and Aero-cars transportation activities for each city in an organized manner, rather than random ideas and inventions here and there from different companies for how to manage a UAV flight from company store to a customer. Flying Aero-car airports also is a must, while physically.road vehicles are the main transportation means which are supporting all multiple task transportations and civil services using: passenger hatchbacks, sporty cars, salon cars, 4WD cars, pickups, buses, ambulances, trucks, motorbikes, desert bikes, patrols, rovers...etc, there are no Aero-cars appeaing yet. In the air, the aerial vehicles are based on extremely differnt shapes and driving mechanisms, with extemely different sizes...etc.

Even to make the cars fly was a dream, in the last decade some designs, ideas, or models appeared to offer flying cars, as example airbus offered a VTOL flying car, wherein a small car is carried from a car parking to another one in another city, a giant drone (UAV) is picking up the car and dropping it off, but without showing any mechanism how to engage or disengage from the car, and of course without offering Aero-cars airports for safe and fully controlled landing and take-off in an organized manner.

Aerial Reconfigurable Embeded System (ARES) is a concept for unmanned VTOL flight module that can transport various payloads, it was started by DARPA as DARPA TX Program, or transformer to be a roadable aircraft, a 2013 DARPA program review found limited interest in the flying car concept, a new model is proposed as a remotely controlled aircraft with no fuselage, a top wing with two side pivotable ducted propellers for take-off and cruising, while carriers will be in-between to carry cars (vehicles) or payloads in the empty space of the traditional fuselage. However, this carrier still so big in size 9.0m X 13.0m, not compact, not providing a stowable/deployable wings, or even a short body height.

However, the prior art is showing only inventions for how to carry a car from location to location, or how to provide a car which can be changed into an aircraft and vice versa, but none is descussing either how a car with wings can land inside a car park which is covered by shades, trees...etc, neither how a car carrier with its big body like in Airbus or Loackheed martin can get down to land its vehicle where the trees, shades, electric wires...etc are blocking its way and big size, nor providing a means how to handle bulcky landing and take offs for vast numbers of Aero-cars.

It is one object of this invention is to provide a basic unique setup for city multiple limited area modified airports to handle special suitable modified embodiments of UAVs, passenger or logistic aerocars or carried cars capable to execute safe landing, parking, take off, in an organized manner for either aerocars occupied with humans, or containers enclosing courier shipments (parcels).

Another object of this invention is to boost the human thinking to extreme and optimum limits in a thrilling way to solve modern cities high road traffic by replacing it with air traffic using the very wide, empty, and non-used lower aerospace by providing and building city airports which can be run autonomously via autonomous landing and take-off multiple floor aero-car parkings, elevators, and logistics autonomous handling from aero-container carriers as wholesale shipments to aerial reception towers delivered to autonomous ground-stations to be divided and destributed as retail to drone aerocarriers, while the airport itself is dynamically managed and maintained via flying robots and UAVs which can provide similar services to the neighborhoods in the city, and from another side provided with passenger flying cars depending on permanently installed wings, or separate a ire rafts carrying them, or basic unique compact designs for aerocarrier frame with the supporting technical features to carry out the tasks of road vehicles, but by flying in the lower aerospace, having similar size like normal cars or pickup trucks to support its easy access (landing) and exit (take-off) from car parking which is normally suitable for one car, wherein it can carry over its top surface any shape of aerodynamic body enclosing a pilot cockpit, passenger seats, shipment compartment, civil defense or police equipment, broadcating room, technician cage, ambulance room, tourists, parcels with drone sets, facade cleaning, rescue service, high rise structures maintenance...etc.

Disclosure of Invention

Brief Description

To provide an airport that can handle autonomously the booking (reservations) of the selected aerocars, UAVs, and flying robots for personal use or shipment use, according to a specific selected root managed via GPS and controlled path program.

Furthermore, via terminal 1 the airport will handle the reception of either persons or containers via reception halls or autonomous aerial reception towers, to distribute passengers toward the departure area.wherein a car is self- driven toward the takeoff point, whileterminals 2 and 3 distributes mini aerial containers (or dividable containers) coming from sea ports toward autonomous ground stations, where the distributed goods are autonomously handled to UAVs to be delivered inside the city as retail.

After the passengers get into the car and ready, a VTOL UAV with built-in ducted propellers is ordered to leave a multiple floor UAV parking toward the car, once it approaches it, depending on a set of laser emitter and receiver sensors the UAV is adjusted to engage to the car top side, either via clamping mechanisms picking up the car from protruding upper horizontal rods, or in another embodiment a lower tubing on both sides of the UAV are driven toward two rods protruding up of the car, then the open sides from the back are locked via two motorized metallic pieces hydraulically and automatically protruding up out of the car ceiling, then the UAV carries the car or container toward another airport in another city. Winged Aero-cars can fly also depending on a permanently built foldable side wings, or being carried over aero-carriers. Once, the UAV approaches the other airport, it will land over the arrival point and disengage from the car, fly towards its multiple floor park, waiting to pick up a car from the departure area... or a flying car lands on elevator to download and load passengers or containers.

Terminal 4 is providing supporting services via a set of multiple types of UAVs, flying technician robots, flying spare part boxes with robotic handles... etc Brief Description of the Drawings:

• FIG. 1 : Illustrates a flow diagram demonstrating the main departments, facilities, machines and tools for a comprehensive City Autonomous Airport (CAA).

• FIG. 2 (A - F): Illustrates multiple 3-D views for yard terminal in terminal 1.

• FIG. 3: Illustrates multiple 3-D views for a modified unmanned aircraft carrier carrying mini cars or containers in terminals 1 , 2 and 3.

• FIG. 4: Illustrates a 3-D view for an unmanned aircraft tools engagement to the mini car in terminal 1.

• FIG. 5 (A - E): Illustrates multiple 3-D views for a flying car with bottom foldable wings in terminal 1.

• FIG. 6: Illustrates multiple 3-D views for a flying car with upper foldable wings in terminal 1.

• FIG. 7 (A - H): Illustrates multiple 3-D views for elevator terminal in terminal 1.

• FIG. 8 (A - E): lllustratesmultiple 3-D views for a car carried on an aerocarrier in terminal 1.

• FIG. 9: Illustrates a 3-D view for logistics autonomous handling in terminal 2 (tower type).

β FIG. 10: Illustrates 3-D view for autonomous retail shipments handling in terminal 3 (yard type).

• FIG. 11 (A - C): Illustrates 3-D model views for multiple parcels and shipments carrier drone in terminals 2, 3 and 4 (Support Services).

• FIG. 12 (A - C): Illustrates multiple 3-D views for a guide drone provided with a display screen in terminal 4 (Support Services).

• FIG. 13 (A, B): Illustrates a 3-D model and sketch views for a firefighter drone in terminal 4 (Support Services). FIG. 14 (A - C): Illustrates multiple 3-D views for a flying technician robot provided with robotic arms and foldable wings in terminal 4 (Support Services).

FIG. 15 (A - C): Illustrates multiple 3-D views for a flying spare parts box provided with robotic arms and foldable wings in terminal 4 (Support Services).

FIG. 16 (A, B): Illustrates 3-D model views for a rescue drone.

FIG. 17 (A, B, C, D): Illustrates 3-D model views for the facade cleaner drone.

FIG. 18 (A, B): Illustrates 3-D model and sketch views for electricity charger drone in terminal 4 (Support Services).

FIG. 19: Illustrates a flow diagram for the net of connections centralized by the City Autonomous Airport (CAA) which acts as a city hub for trade, business and finance.

Detailed description for carrying out the Invention:

Best Mode for Carrying out the Invention:

In order to make it easy to carry out this invention, a detailed description of the parts of the invention, supported with figures, is provided here, wherein the main parts are arranged sequentially, according to the importance of the part, it is made easy to read, by referring to each feature, with a number included in the parts description text, and in the parts numbering list, the numbering of part features is indicated here, by starting it sequentially from number 20, whenever a part feature appears in a text, it will be directly assigned its required serial number. As example in FIG. 2, the parts' features are arranged sequentially from number 20, 21 , 22...

Up to date, there is neither a fully organized center inside a city or beside its center working as a ground base for controlling all of the lower low aerospace multiple kinds of air traffic, nor an invention for an airport (ground base) with nearly comprehensive technical features to run the Aero-cars and UAVs operations in multiple aspects. In the future, the flying cars are expected to be used either inside cities or in-between them, or in-between airports, or even in- between ports or fulfillment centers and other delivery locations, each one of hundreds of the big cities currently have at least one million cars on their roads, added to these the expected high air traffic of UAVs which are an extreme demand for providing multiple types of services, this means any percentage of these flying cars or UAVs will have tens of thousands of them crowded daily in the lower aerospace of any of the big cities, wherein tens of thousands of take offs and landings will be occurring daily, or may be thousands of take offs and landings are occurring every hour.

These should be handled in an organized manner, via bulk handling of flying cars (Aero-cars) and UAVs on the airport land, the best way is to establish the following:

1- Full and unique City Autonomous Airports (CAA) 20 infrastructure for handling Aero-cars and UAVs landing and takeoff. 2- (CAA) 20 with multiple terminals such as: Passengers terminal 21 , logistics terminal 22, autonomous warehouse terminal 23, support services terminal (24).

3- Using VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aerospace technologies to save takeoff and landing areas.

4- Multiple option services such as: a- renting a flight from aero-car airport (20) to another one, b- renting both the flight (remotely controlled UAV (aircraft) 25 modified for carrying a traditional modified mini car 26) in- between airports 20, wherein the mini car 26 is to be used inside a city and back (FIG. 3) c- VIP renting for full time flying cars (Winged Aero- cars) with built-in stowable (foldable) wings-tail (either Bottom Winged Aero-car 27, or Top Winged Aero-car 28) to be used for flying in-between (CAA) airports 20, car parks and to be driven as electric cars on road inside the cities.

5- A fully controlled and managed programmed paths / tracks using GPS system.

6- A multiple floor aircraft parking 29 in-between both the landing yard 30 and take-off yard 31 , where the aircrafts can be maintained and recharged.

7- An online pre-reservations and bookings.

8- Free shopping zones, malls, markets, online warehouse products can be an extra addition to the CAA 20 which can be located in-between the city and industrial area to be the most dynamic, active, autonomous, and intelligent city hub handling trade and transportation, wherein this means if hundreds of autonomous city airports are established, tens of satellites need to be launched to control their operations and intelligent services.

So, to provide a city autonomous airport (CAA) 20 that can handle autonomously the booking (reservations) of the selected Aero-cars for personal use or shipment (container) 32 use, or UAVs services according to a specific selected root managed via GPS and controlled path program, the airport (CAA) 20 infrastructure according to Fig.1 should have the following four terminals: Terminal 1 :

This terminal starts with a reception hall 33 for either passengers (persons) or containers 32, where these are distributed to the take-off (departure) yard 31 , wherein a car 33 from inside the car parking is self-driven toward the takeoff point, or a container 31 is shifted via e.g.: electrically driven belt toward the takeoff point, or via a driven truck, both cars and containers are handled in the yard terminal 30 inside terminal 1 (FIG. 2 (A - F)).

After the passengers get into the modified mini car 26 and get ready for the flight, a VTOL UAV 25 with built-in ducted propellers, rotors... is ordered to leave a multiple floor UAV parking 29 toward the car 26 in the take-off yard 31 (FIG. 2 (C, D, F)), once it approaches it, then via a set of laser emitter and receiver sensors, the VTOL UAV 25 is adjusted to engage to the car 26 top side (Fig. 3), either via clamping mechanisms picking up the car 26 from protruding upper horizontal rods 34, or in another embodiment a lower tubing 35 on both sides of the UAV 25 are driven horizontally toward two horizontal rods 35 protruding up of the car, then after engagement, to prevent sliding out of the car 26 from the horizontal tubing 35, the open sides from the back are locked via two motorized vertical metallic parts 36 by hydraulically and automatically being pushed up to protrude out of the car roof (FIG. 4), then the UAV 25 carries the car 26 or container 32 toward another airport 20 in another city. The same pick up procedure applies on the containers 32.

Once, the UAV carrier 25 reaches the other airport 20 (FIG.2 (A, B, C, F)) , it will land over the landing yard 30 and disengage from the car 26, fly towards its multiple floor park 29 (fig. 2 - C), stow / tilt / swing half of each of its wings vertically up around its pivot depending on a conventional mechanism to shorten its width to get inside its parking space where it is electrically recharged, technically inspected or serviced during its waiting to pick up another car 26 from the departure area (take-off yard 31 ) (FIG. 2 E)...and so on. While the arriving car 26 is normally driven either toward the arrivals car parking 37 to be left there by the passengers, or to be driven out of the arrivals terminal and exit a check-point to be used as a rented car 26 inside the city and back to the airport 20.

The VTOL means in another embodiment can be a full-time car permanently engaged with wings and tail for direct use as a VIP option, wherein there will be no need for the VTOL UAV carrier 25. In the bottom winged Aero-car 27 embodiment the side wings 38 and tail 39 are fixed to the bottom side of the Aero-car 25 under the side and back doors (FIG. 5 (A - E)) , such that when the Winged Aero-car 27 is parked inside the airport (CAA) 20 or driven personally on the roads outside the airport (CAA) 20, the side wings 38 and tail 39 are stowable (foldable) by tilting them vertically up around the body of the Aero-car 27, while the far ends of the wings 38 are then tilted horizontally inside over the roof of the Aero-car 27 as in (Fig. 5 - E) which is showing incomplete folding for clarification, this configuration is changed into fully horizontal type to let the passengers get in and to stay the same while taking-off, flying and landing, while the stowable configuration is used also while driving, the blocking of the side and rear view, is solved using side and rear view conventional cameras which are already available in the art and market.

In another embodiment a Top Winged Aero-car 28 is having its wings 38 and tail 39 permanently installed on its top side over the side and back doors (Fig. 6 (A - D)), the wings 38 and tail 39 are foldable while the Winged Aero-car 28 is driven on road inside the city, and unfolded to take a horizontal configuration while flying or while the passengers are getting in or out of it..

The Winged Aero-cars 27, 28 are not making their take-off and landing on the yard terminal, but are having a specially designed elevators terminal 40 inside terminal 1 , wherein the passengers does not need to move toward the open yard to get in inside a car 26 to be picked up by a VTOL UAV Carrier 25, but instead, they will enter from the departures inlet to the ground floor in the Aero- car elevator terminal 40 (Fig. 7 (A - H)), the process flow inside the elevator terminal is like the following: a- A Winged Aero-car 27, 28 lands over the landing roof 41 elevator terminal 40. b- The winged Aero-car 27, 28 is moved down via the downward landing elevator 42 toward the ground floor (FIG 7- G).

c- The Arrival passengers either exit the elevator terminal 40 with the

Winged Aero-car 27, 28 to drive and use it personally on-road inside the city, or to leave the Winged Aero-car 27, 28 in the ground floor center and leave from the arrivals exit,

d- The Winged Aero-car 27, 28 is moved via electric belt towards the inspection/charging center in the ground floor,

e- The Winged Aero-car 27, 28 is moved via electric belt towards the take-off

(departures) elevator 43.

f- The departure passengers get in inside the Inspected Winged Aero-car

27, 28 which is carried up by the departures elevator 43 towards the roof (take-off) area 44 (FIG 7- H).

g- During moving from the landing elevator 42 toward the departures elevator 43, electric charging is carried out for the Winged Aero-car 27,

28, wherein solar panels can provide the solar energy for charging them, h- In-between the landing elevator 42 and the departures elevator 43 and adjacent to them, a multiple floors building 45 is consisting of a ground floor for: arrivals exit, Winged Aero-car exit, Winged Aero-car service, Departures inlet, while the other floors are occupied by restaurants, management...etc.

Terminal 1 of the Airport (CAA) 20 is also furnished with a special kind of Aero- cars 46 (FIG. 8 (A, B, C, D, E), wherein any of normal car brands with smooth shapes have their bodies and inner upholstery and inner devices built (without wheels) over an Aero-carrier 47, the Aero-carrier is provided with four front ducted propellers 48 with rear swing-able swivel nozzles 49 to support their vertical take-off and landing, also provided with foldable side wings 50, and four wheels 51 to support its driving, these Auto-cars46 can be used either from the yards or elevators in terminal 1.

It need to be noted that the Aero-cars 26, 27, 47 need to bemodified to be provided with all of the necessary tools and accessories for passenger's safety and relaxation such as: center console having water, snacks, drinks, masks, SOS telecommunication for emergency calls or emergency landing, while the dashboard is provided with: entertainment tools, flight map details, and underneath scenery displays. The seats too are provided with: massage, adjustable, and tilting mechanisms. On the back seat: a child safety seat.On the roof inner side: life jacket / life rafts. In the luggage compartment: baggage storage. As the expected weight of the whole Aero-car with its two passengers and luggage will be around 0.5 ton, it can be furnished with a parachute.

Terminal 2 In order to handle the aerial shipments distribution via a small land area, terminal 2 is constructed from Multiple floor building (Fig. 9) as a logistics center for container-parcel handling, wherein from one side it is receiving aerial containers 32 dropped off from VTOL UAVs downward over a two-way containers elevator 52, the elevator distribute these containers to the suitable floor, inside each floor the container is opened, and the parcels 53 are picked up autonomously via the drones 54 which will scanand distributes them to the shelves 55 and later according to the delivery plans to be distributed to a suitable belt of an autonomous ground station 56 which will scan again the barcodes (labels, marks) send messages to the receivers updating them about the tracking status of the shipment (parcel) 53 arrival and expected time of delivery, the autonomous ground stations 56 can execute further processes such as security scanning and short-time storing, the motorized belt inside the autonomous ground station will shift the parcels 53 to the other side out of the station, where it is either picked up by a drone 54 and delivered to the two-way parcels elevator 57 located inside the multiple elevator autonomous tower, or the parcels elevator 57 is fed directly with the parcels such that the parcels 53 are moved up wherein at the parcel elevator top end a drone will pick up the parcel and deliver it to the customer location, or a set of parcels 53 are fed in one Aero-carrier drone 58 like the one demonstrated in (Fig. 11 (A, B, C) , which is provided with a set of mini-drones to distribute the set of parcels 53 to one specific compound of buildings. The elevators 52, 57 are of two ways to serve in returning back the empty containers or the non-received (returned) parcels 53.

Terminal 3 In order to handle the aerial shipments distribution via an expanded land area wherein trucks too can access to the warehouses, terminal 3 is constructed as a wholesale - retail distribution center (Fig. 10), wherein from one side it is receiving either trucks loaded with containers or aerial containers 32 dropped off from VTOL UAVs 25 downward over a two-way containers elevator 52, the elevator distribute these containers 32 to electric belts in the ground floor, once the container 32 is opened autonomously depending on conventional mechanisms, the parcels 53 are picked up autonomously via the drones which will scan them and distributes them to the shelves 55 and later according to the delivery plans to a suitable belt of an autonomous ground station 56 which will scan again the barcodes (labels) send messages to the receivers updating them about the tracking status of the shipment (parcel) arrival and expected time of delivery, the autonomous ground stations 56 can execute further processes such as security scanning and short-time storing, the motorized belt inside the autonomous ground station will shift the parcels 53 to the other side out of the station, where it is either picked up by a drone which will pick up the parcel and deliver it to the customer location, or a set of parcels 53 are fed in one Aerocarrier drone 58 like the one demonstrated in (Fig. 11 (A, B, C) , which is provided with a set of mini-drones to distribute the set of parcels 53 to one specific compound of buildings.

The elevators are of two ways to serve in returning back the empty aerial containers. Terminal 4:

Terminal 4 will be constructed conventionally to provide the support services to the whole Autonomous Airport 20, in addition to extra services to the neighborhoods inside the city upon demand.

As a result, terminal 4 will be the operation center which will provide the facilities with their machines and spare parts needs for maintaining their autonomous operations, supporting their services, providing maintenance. These will include the followings:

1- VTOL UAVS 25 and their spare parts (FIG. 3).

2- Winged Aero-cars 27, 28 and their spare parts (Figs. 5, 6).

3- Aero-carriers 47 with modified conventional cars 46 built-in over them (Fig. 8).

4- Guide drones 59 (Fig. 12): these drones are provided with display screens (60), to guide the passengers, drivers... etc to the suitable locations by communicating with them via a mike/phone and displaying the required specific information on their screens, rather than leaving the passengers searching for employees or vice versa, so it is an autonomous service tool.

5- Firefighter drones 61 (Fig. 13): a firefighter drone 61 is carrying multiple fire extinguishers 62 over its top surface. in case a fire occurred, there is no need to spend a long time waiting for the fire extinguishing trucks to approach, instead, the firefighter drones 61 which are spread around the whole airport facilities, are ready to fly directly within seconds toward an outdoor or indoor fire, to deal with it, wherein one firefighter drone or more can be sent toward the fire.

Additional firefighter drones 61 too can be put under the demand of the civil defense in the neighborhood of the city.

6- Flying robotic technicians 63 (Fig. 14): these technician robots 63 are provided with foldable wings 64 and tail 65 to support their flying and fast approach to carry out a vast number of tasks such as: using their screens 66 which are built-in on their chests side to guide passengers, or instead of the displays 66 being provided with spare parts box to support their capabilities to do some part replacements either for the airport facilities, or for the Aero-cars inside the Autonomous Airport 20, or outside on city roads during emergencies, where any finger of the flying technician robots 63 can be modified to carry out data diagnosis by being able to be connected to a data diagnosis connector to read the faulty memory, to know the faulty part, and to delete the faulty memory after fixing the problem.

- Flying spare parts box 67 (Fig. 15): these boxes are provided with foldable wings 65 and tail 66 to support their flying and fast approach to carry out a vast number of tasks depending on their robotic arms 68 which may carry out welding, drilling... etc, and big spare parts box 69 such as: providing the airport technicians with the required spare parts within a short-time either inside the airport 20 or out, or instead to do by themselves some part replacements either for the airport facilities, or for the Aero-cars inside the Autonomous Airport 20, or outside on city roads during emergencies, where any finger of the robotic arms 68 can be modified to carry out data diagnosis by being able to be connected to a data diagnosis connector to read the faulty memory, to know the faulty part, and to delete the faulty memory after fixing the problem.

- Rescue drones 70 (Fig. 16- A, B): Rescue drones are provided from their bottom side with hooks (jaws) 71 to pick up faulty fallen drones ASAP to be returned back to terminal 4.

- Facade cleaning drones 72 (Fig. 17- A, B, C): to provide cleaning services for either the Autonomous Airport facilities or for the neighborhood buildings in the city according to demand requests, these drones are provided with rotatable brushes 73, water supply hoses, drainage basins.0- Electricity charger drones 74 (Fig. 18 (A, B)): these drones are provided with batteries 75 for carrying out an on-site electrical charging via connecters 76 plugged to the Aero-cars inside the cities at emergencies, and can too provide electric charging for normal conventional electric cars in the neighborhoods of the city according to demand requests. Industrial applicability:

1- City Autonomous Airport (CAA)buildings, tools, machines, electronic services and and transportation methodswith its construction, structure, autonomous means, GPS systems, path and roots control, online bookings, air traffic watch control tower, electric belts, escalators, elevators, check in, check out points, rent a car facilities...etc.ln addition to UAVs engaging to cars, vertically taking-off, landing, disengaging from cars, or permanently installed foldable/stowable wings and tail with built- in ducted propellers all made from available tools, parts, mechanisms, with applicable modifications.

2- Multiple uses in civil service unmanned transportation; city to city, airports to (CAA), sea port to (CAA), industrial city warehouses to (CAA), (CAA) to city, so it can be used by commercial sector, governmental departments, hospitals, traffic control...etc.

3- Autonomous airport (CAA) and transportation methods are reshaping and reconstructing the lower aero-space traffic, to be less crowded, more organized, efficient, profitable, beneficial with less pollution and annoyance.

4- A revolutionary solution replacing all proposed flying cars which needs long distance take-off fields, or big spaces for landing or bulky mechanisms to fold the bulky wings into unorganized shapes.

5- The Autonomous Airport (CAA) and its transportation methodswill open the lower aerospace to be used as a solution for the high crowded road traffic ratios especially in-between the big cities.

6- Reshaping the whole current civil trade, wholesale, retail, and transportation into a more modern, smart, intelligent and organized ones. Parts Drawing Index:

20 City Autonomous Airports (CAA). 50Side wings.

21 Passenger terminal. 51 Wheels.

22 logistics terminal. 52 Containers elevator.

23 Autonomous warehouse terminal. 53 Aerial Parcel.

24 Support services terminal. 54 Pick-up drones.

25 Modified Car-carrier Aircraft. 55 Shelves.

26 Modified Mini car. 56 Autonomous Ground station

27 Bottom winged aero-car. 57 Parcels elevator.

28Top winged aero-car. 58 Aero-carrier drone.

29Multiple floor aircraft parking. 59 Guide drone.

30 Landing yard. 60 Display screen.

31 Take-off yard. 61 Firefighter drone.

32Aerial Container. 62 Fire extinguisher.

33 Reception hall. 63 Flying robotic technician.

34 Two upper horizontal rods. 64 Foldable wing.

35 Lower tubing. 65 Foldable tail.

36 Vertical metallic support (lock). 66 Display screen.

37 Car parking. 67 Flying tool box.

38 Side wings. 68 Robotic arms.

39 Tail. 69 Spare parts box.

40 Elevators terminal. 70 Rescue drone.

41 Landing roof 41. 71 Hook / Jaw

42 Landing elevator. 72 Facade cleaner drone.

43 Departure elevator. 73 Rotatable brushes.

44 Roof take-off area. 74 Electricity charger drone.

45 Multiple floors building. 75 Battery.

46 Aero-car 76 Connector.

47 Aero-carrier. Built-in emergency tiny-drone 48Ducted propellers.

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Claims

Claims

1- A City Autonomous Airport (20) comprising: a passenger terminal (21);

a logistic terminal (22);

an autonomous warehouse terminal (23); a support services terminal (24);

a modified car carrier aircraft (25);

a modified mini car (26);

a bottom winged aero-car (27);

a top winged aero-car (28);

a multiple floor aircraft parking (29);

a landing yard (30);

a take-off yard (31);

an aerial container (32);

a reception hall (33);

a car parking (37);

an elevator terminal (40);

a landing roof (41);

a landing elevator (42);

a departure elevator (43);

a roof take-off area (44);

a multiple floor building (45);

an aero-car (46);

an aero-carrier (47);

a containers elevator (52);

a pick-up drone (54);

a shelves (55);

an autonomous ground station (56);

a parcels elevator (57);

an aero-carrier drone (58); a guide drone (59);

a firefighter drone (61);

a flying robotic technician (63);

a flying tool box (67);

a robotic arms (68);

a rescue drone (70);

a facade cleaner drone (72);

an electricity charger drone (74);

a built-in emergency tiny-drone (77);

2- The City Autonomous AirportCAA (20) according to claim 1 , wherein passengers terminal is constructed from a reception hall (33), a landing yard (30), a take-off yard (31), in-between them a multiple floor aircraft parking (29), and a car parking (37), such that modified remotely controlled car carrier aircrafts (25) drop the modified mini car (26) or an aerial container (32) on the landing yard (30), and flies toward its parking in the multiple floor aircraft parking (29) to be charged and serviced for its next flight by moving forward and downward toward a waiting mini car (26) or container (32)on the take-off yard (31) to pick it up for a flight to another (CAA) 20.

3- The City Autonomous Airport CAA (20) according to claim 1, wherein the modified remotely controlled car carrier aircraft (25) engages to and picks up the modified mini car (26) or aerial container (32) via engaging the two lower tubing (35) on bottom of the aircraft (25) to the upper horizontal rods (34) on top of the mini car (26), while the vertical metallic support (lock) (36) is conventionally pushed up to prevent sliding.

4- The City Autonomous Airport CAA (20) according to claim 1, wherein the modified aircraft carrier (25) and modified mini car (26) setup in another embodiment are replaced with single flying units such as: bottom winged aero-car (27) provided with foldable side wings (38) and tail (39) under its side and back doors, ortop winged aero-car (28) provided with foldable wings (38) and tail (39) over its side and back doors, or a traditional smooth shape car (46) carried and installed over an aero-carrier (47) with front ducted propellers (48), rear swivel nozzles (49), foldable side wings (50) and four wheels (51).

5- The City Autonomous Airport CAA (20) according to claim 1, wherein the elevator terminal (40) in the passenger terminal (21) is constructed from a landing roof (41) to receive the winged aero-cars (27) (28), and a downward landing elevator (42) moving the Aero-cars toward the ground floor, and a departure elevator (43) carrying the aero-cars from the ground floor upward, and a roof take-off area (44) foraero-car take-off.

6- The City Autonomous Airport CAA (20) according to claim 1, wherein the logistics terminal (22) is constructed from containers elevator (52) to receive aerial containers (32) from (UAV) carrier aircrafts (22) to distribute them to multiple floors (45), wherein the containers (32) are opened and their parcels (53) are picked up via drones (54), distributed to shelves (55), then to the autonomous ground stations (56) which via electric motorized belts move them to inside the autonomous station (56) to scan/store them, and move them in an organized manner toward the parcels elevator (57) where they are picked up from its top end via aero-carrier drones (58) in bulk, to be distributed to a nearby buildings or a compound.

7- The City Autonomous Airport CAA (20) according to claim 1, whereinthe autonomous warehouse terminal (23) is constructed from shelves (55) getting parcels (53) which are picked up by drones (54) from the containers (32) which are received from (UAV) carrier aircrafts (22) or trucks, such that the parcels (53) are distributed to the autonomous ground stations (56) which via electric motorized belts move them to inside the autonomous station (56) to scan/store them, and move them in an organized manner toward aero-carrier drones (58) in bulk, to be distributed to a nearby buildings or a compound. 8- The City Autonomous Airport CAA (20) according to claim 1, wherein the support services terminal (24) consists of many smart robotic and flying machines such as: guide drones (59) to guide passengers via information displayed on their screens (60); firefighter drones (61) to carry out firefighting using a carried fire extinguishers (62); flying robotic technicians (63) to carry out diagnosis, repairs and part replacement or assisting customers; a flying tool box (67) to provided technicians with spare parts or depending on their robotic arms (68) to carry out diagnosis, repairs and part replacement; rescue drones (70) to pick up fallen or idle drones; facade cleaner drones (72) to clean the CAA (20) facilities; electricity charger drone (74) to provide electric charging for the Aero-cars on road or in air; built-in emergency tiny-drone (77) launched from the aero-cars to locate the idle or fallen aero-cars, to pick up photos for the accident area, or to establish communication with the passengers.