JUMPING VEHICLE Russian patent published in 2004 - IPC

FIELD: transport engineering.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to vehicles designed for operation complex terrain conditions and in rarefied atmosphere. Proposed vehicle has body, platform, cabin for crew, solar batteries, engine, wheels and shock absorbers and includes additionally maneuvering engines. Whelps are furnished with individual electric drives and are installed for moving and fixing in upper or lower position. Engine includes guide pipe installed in aiming device for turning at angle to horizon, whose open end is pointed downwards and blind end, upwards, and it contains pusher with head. Pusher is made of material with memorized shape effect in form of spiral spring with transition point lying higher than probable temperatures of atmosphere in which vehicle operates with possibility of straightening after of application of electric pulse to pusher and heating of pusher material higher than transition point. As a result, vehicle is pushed off from ground.

EFFECT: possibility of operation under rarefied atmosphere conditions.

4 cl, 4 dwg