Featured Toyota patents flying Prius...

i don't recall seeing this. i told my nephews mine could fly, they bought it.

 

Without a patent number, yes.

For example: Patent US3285546 - Multi-cell wing type aerial device - Google Patents



Bob Wilson

 

Well if Pigs can fly so can a Prius!

 

First: I need the Patent number to verify this.

Second: As an engineer with 6 patents myself, IF this is real, Toyota may only be trying to prevent anyone else from creating a Flying Prius without their permission.

Third: The design illustrated does not look aerodynamically stable.

Bill the Engineer

 

Well, this Prius is not going to need wings, so overrated!

 

Toyota North America has received a patent bearing the number US20150246720

Toyota Files For A Patent That Could Let Priuses Plummet Out Of The Sky

Registered patent Toyota automotive know … fly | One Tech

Gotta love Google

 

Its got to be a gag by toyota for an ad. They already did powered by bull shit.
Toyota's Flying Car Patent Looks Like Henry Ford Drawing the Wright Brother's Plane | Inverse

There is a real patent.
My guess is they have something that will let the car glide and land, but not take off, for use in an ad campaign. Something like the lexus hoverboard series, but I am not sure why anyone thought that was a good idea.

 

I don't see anything in the patent suggesting that it would be part of the Prius family, just some sort of 'aerocar'. It seems that someone downstream slapped a Prius label on it based solely on the profile, which happens to fit well with the stowed airfoils.

 

It might help to mitigate the whole Prius = Left Lane Hugger thing......

 

Patent was released yesterday, just assuming its part of this vegas prius anouncement ad. Nothing says prius on the patent, and from the looks of it, this will be an advertising (probably internet only) patent, not something that toyota wants to sell and build.

Could Flying Bikes, Cars Be Next? Toyota and U.S. Army Explore

 

This says more about the patent system then Toyota.

 

Isn't this old news? Its 60+ year old technology - so how does a 1947 patent sound - "borrowed" ? .


http://www.newsweek.com/2015/04/17/flying-cars-are-coming-do-you-really-want-one-319639.html


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The news took to long to reach Japan

 

The Prius is already drive-by-wire, and at the "Reveal" it was fly-by-wire. So they're making progress in the flying department.

 

Love the oversized shark fin on the back...get some good FM reception with that baby

 

they beat you to it......this time

 

The Patent process has always been this way. Many years ago, someone patented towing a barge across the ocean with a blimp.

A patent is granted when it meets the following:
1. The invention is unique, with no "prior art" from anyone else.
2. The invention is possible under the laws of physics. (No perpetual motion ideas.)
3. The invention is not obvious to anyone else in that field.

That's all it takes.

A patent guarantees that you have the sole right to produce and sell your invention for a short number of years. After that anyone can make it.

A patent does not guarantee that the invention is easy to produce, nor that the holder of the patent can make any money from it.

Bill the Engineer

 

you will have to trump their flying prius with a prius submarine, for family fun and drug smuggling off the florida coast ...something james bondish

 

I expect to see a flying Prius in Minnesota before I see local dealers selling Mirai here