266results about "Air-sea rescue devices" patented technology

Various embodiments of the present invention comprise systems for providing a lifesaving apparatus to a distressed individual. Such systems may comprise an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured to selectably support a lifesaving apparatus. The UAV may comprise a release mechanism configured to release the lifesaving apparatus when proximate a distressed person. The system may additionally comprise a control device configured to wirelessly communicate with the UAV such that a user can pilot the UAV from a distance and deliver the lifesaving apparatus to a distressed person. Methods of using the same may comprise piloting the UAV proximate a distressed person, providing a signal to the UAV to release the lifesaving apparatus by operating the release mechanism, and then pulling the lifesaving apparatus and the distressed person to safety via a control line secured to the lifesaving apparatus.

The invention discloses a scheme of a flying lifesaving system fixedly or movably arranged on the bridge or deck, characterized in that: a large-diameter main ducted coaxial reversible dual-rotor body is used for bearing main lift; small-diameter ducted rotor bodies are symmetrically arranged around the large-diameter main ducted coaxial reversible dual-rotor body in the same plane, connecting arms can freely move in the forms of stretching, twisting, shaking and swinging, thus the effects of bearing assistant lift, mainly controlling the direction and resisting vortex ring are achieved; and a variable inertia system and an energy delivery dragging cable system are arranged in the main rotor. The device can resist turbulent flow sudden shearing transition winds and has anti-adverse wind long-endurance submersible capability, can fly within the length of the dragging cable or the distance of wireless remote like helicopter rescue principles under sea conditions in bad weather and directly fly beyond the persons in water to hover to conduct marine salvage; and can land on the water surface to float to release rescue devices to let the persons in water enter, and swan the rescue devices by using the motive force of the rotors and the pulling force of the energy delivery dragging cable to the lifeboats to save people, thus the rescue scheme and equipment of the rescue devices under sea conditions in bad weather are achieved.

A drone-type lifesaving equipment dropping device including: an unmanned aerial vehicle (2) having a propeller (4) and a rotor (3) configured to rotate the propeller; a holding member (10) which is installed to the unmanned aerial vehicle (2) and configured to be operated by wireless control; and a lifesaving equipment which is detachably engaged to the holding member (10) and is dropped from the holding member (10) after the lifesaving equipment is disengaged from the holding member.

The invention relates to a method for dispensing rescue equipment by utilizing an unmanned plane. The method comprises the following steps: S1, pulling out a rescue traction rope in a pay-off wheel to be connected with the rescue equipment, opening a dispensing device by utilizing a remote control device, and connecting the rescuing equipment with an aircraft; S2, opening an image receiving display screen, controlling the aircraft to fly towards a target area, carrying out the target search according to a transmitted picture, opening the dispensing device after a rescue target is discovered, and dispensing the rescuing equipment; and S3, operating the aircraft to enable a camera device to align the rescue target, observing the rescue target from the image receiving display screen, observing whether the rescue withdrawing condition is satisfied, withdrawing the rescue traction rope by rescue personnel when the recue withdrawing condition is satisfied, and drawing the rescue target to leave the dangerous situation. By adopting the method for dispensing the rescue equipment, the rescue equipment can be accurately, reliably and rapidly dispensed to a to-be-rescued target.

The invention discloses a maritime delivery type lifesaving device based on an unmanned aerial vehicle. The maritime delivery type lifesaving device comprises a sensing device, a lifesaving device and a rotor unmanned aerial vehicle, wherein the lifesaving device comprises a life buoy, a delivering module and a high-tensile hauling cable; the life buoy under an unaerated condition is loaded in a cabin of the rotor unmanned aerial vehicle, and the opening and the closing of a cabin door is controlled by the delivering module; the life buoy and the rotor unmanned aerial vehicle are connected by the high-tensile hauling cable; the delivering module controls the delivery of the life buoy according to a received signal; and the sensing device comprises an air speed sensor, an altitude sensor and infrared imaging equipment. According to the maritime delivery type lifesaving device based on the unmanned aerial vehicle disclosed by the invention, the rotor unmanned aerial vehicle is used for delivering the life buoy capable of automatically inflating when being in contact with water above a person falling into water, so that remote and rapid rescue is performed on the person falling into water, a rescuer does not need to enter water, and safety and high efficiency of maritime lifesaving can be guaranteed.

A search and rescue drone system includes a buoyant body member, a frame attached to the buoyant body member for carrying a motor and propeller, and an electronic array including a camera, GPS, an EPIRB radio distress beacon, and a transmitter / receiver for remote control flying the drone and communicating with an operator. A laser guidance system may provide coordinates for landing near a swimmer in distress. The search and rescue drone may also be programmed to simply fly to the location of an electronic wearable device, like a bracelet, that is worn by a man overboard. In another embodiment, the search and rescue drone includes pivoting motor mounts, so that it can take off and land vertically with propellers rotating in a horizontal plane, and then the propellers may pivot to rotate in a vertical plane for propulsion across water similar to a fan boat with rescued people aboard.

The present invention relates to a drone-type lifesaving equipment dropping device, which comprises: an unmanned aerial vehicle (2) having a propeller (4) and a rotor (3) for rotating the propeller and configured to perform unmanned flight; a holding means (10) installed in the unmanned aerial vehicle (2) and release-operated by a radio control; and a lifesaving equipment coupled to the holding means (10) to be separable by a release operation and configured to be dropped when the lifesaving equipment is separated from the holding means (10).

The invention discloses maritime search and rescue equipment with an unmanned aerial vehicle carried by an unmanned ship. The maritime search and rescue equipment comprises the unmanned aerial vehiclefor executing the search and rescue task, the unmanned ship for carrying the unmanned aerial vehicle, and a ground monitoring platform. According to the maritime search and rescue equipment, the unmanned aerial vehicle and the unmanned ship are effectively combined, the cruising capability of the unmanned aerial vehicle is improved, the search and rescue range of the unmanned aerial vehicle is enlarged, meanwhile the unmanned ship and the unmanned aerial vehicle can be remotely monitored and controlled correspondingly through the ground monitoring platform, input of search and rescue manpoweris reduced, the search and rescue cost is lowered, and the effective guarantee is provided for the maritime search and rescue task.

The invention relates to a salvage unmanned aerial vehicle capable of being remotely controlled. The salvage unmanned aerial vehicle comprises a fuselage, a flight control module, a flight mechanism and a delivery mechanism, wherein the flight mechanism comprises a plurality of flight assemblies which are uniformly arranged at the periphery of the fuselage, each flight assembly comprises a support arm, a flight motor and a rotor wing, the delivery mechanism comprises a shell body, a rising and falling assembly and life buoys, and the rising and falling assembly comprises a first lead screw, a loop bar, a first circular gear, a second circular gear and a driving motor. The salvage unmanned aerial vehicle capable of being remotely controlled is ingenious in structure and is applied to sea surface patrol and life buoy delivery during salvaging, the specific delivery mechanism is used for throwing the prepared life buoys at locations of trapped people, and a specific vertical delivery mechanism can be used for preventing the trapped people from drowning and can also be used for accurately delivering the life buoys to the locations of the trapped people.

The invention discloses a water intelligent rescue device based on linkage of an unmanned aerial vehicle and a life buoy. The water intelligent rescue device based on linkage of the unmanned aerial vehicle and the life buoy comprises the unmanned aerial vehicle, the life buoy and a monitoring terminal, wherein the unmanned aerial vehicle is used for monitoring picture information of whether a person in distress is on the water surface or not from the air and outputting the information and geographical location information of the person in distress in real time; the life buoy is used for receiving the picture information and the geographical location information, which are transmitted by the unmanned aerial vehicle, of the person in distress; a high horsepower propulsion device is arrangedon the life buoy; the life buoy automatically plans a route, which leads to the person in distress, to rescue the person in distress according to the geographical location information of the person indistress; the monitoring terminal is used for receiving data information transmitted by both the life buoy and the unmanned aerial vehicle; the monitoring terminal is arranged on a rescue vessel andused for monitoring state information of the person in distress and a situation of whether the person in distress is rescued or not in real time.

The invention discloses maritime patrol equipment of an unmanned aerial vehicle carried on an unmanned ship and a use method thereof. The maritime patrol equipment of the unmanned aerial vehicle carried on the unmanned ship comprises the unmanned ship, the unmanned aerial vehicle, an unmanned aerial vehicle take-off and landing platform system and an unmanned aerial vehicle battery automatic changing charging system. The use method of the maritime patrol equipment of the unmanned aerial vehicle carried on the unmanned ship comprises the following steps that a, the unmanned ship sails along a planning trajectory; b, the unmanned ship runs to a working area, and the unmanned aerial vehicle lifts off to work; c, the unmanned aerial vehicle transmits images and unmanned aerial vehicle relatedinformation to a ground station system; d, when the power capacity of the unmanned aerial vehicle is not enough, the unmanned aerial vehicle makes a return voyage after marking position information ofa current point; e, the unmanned aerial vehicle lands; f, a battery is changed; g, the battery is charged; h, a fully charged battery is mounted; i, the unmanned aerial vehicle returns to a marking position and returns after finishing working; and j, the unmanned ship continues to patrol. According to the maritime patrol equipment of the unmanned aerial vehicle carried on the unmanned ship, a shaking problem of the unmanned ship is solved so that the taking-off and landing of the unmanned aerial vehicle are stable; the safety of the whole system is guaranteed; and the cruising ability of theunmanned ship and the cruising ability of the unmanned aerial vehicle are improved.

The invention relates to a GPS maritime life-saving system which comprises a base device, a ship device and an individual device, wherein the base device is provided with a wireless receiver; the ship device is provided with a ship GPS localizer and a wireless receiving device; and the individual device comprises an individual GPS localizer and a light alarm device. When a maritime incidence happens, the ship GPS localizer on the ship device sends out a distress signal and a position signal, and after the wireless receiver of the base device receives the distress signal and the position signal, the rescuer goes to rescue. After a person falls into the sea, when a search and rescue device is within the range (30 km of radius) of the accident site, the GPS localizer on the individual device is immediately triggered to send out the distress signal and the position signal. Compared with the prior art, the invention has the characteristics of high safety and reliability, accurate positioning and the like, and can quickly rescue the person falling into the sea.

The invention provides a water-air amphibious unmanned rescue platform which can sail on the water surface and can also fly in the air. Two sailing modes can be rapidly and freely switched, water surface sailing depends on two small water plane streamline ship bodies and marine propellers installed behind the ship bodies, and the propelling mode adopts double-propeller differential propelling; andfour four-rotor propellers and matched brushless motors are used for sailing in the air, and are fixed right over the rescue platform in a square shape. According to the invention, the remote rescuematerial throwing device provided by the invention adopts a simple and reliable door type structure, so autonomous tracking and autonomous obstacle avoidance functions can be realized. According to the unmanned rescue platform, the advantages of a small waterplane catamaran and a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle are combined, rapid crossing of a discontinuous water area can be achieved through the flight function of the unmanned rescue platform, the unmanned rescue platform can reach the water area without the launching condition of a conventional rescue ship in a flight mode, the environmental adaptability of the unmanned rescue platform is enhanced, and the working range of the unmanned rescue platform is enlarged.

The invention provides an unmanned aerial vehicle for delivering life buoys. The unmanned aerial vehicle comprises a vehicle rack and delivering modules, and is characterized in that the delivering modules are symmetrically mounted at the two sides below a base body of the vehicle rack; the vehicle rack comprises the base body, a camera, a loading hole, two motor frames, four brushless motors, four screw propellers, a power supply module, a control module and reinforcing ribs; the camera is fixedly mounted on a mounting frame at one side of the base body; the loading hole is formed in the middle section of the base body; the two motor frames are fixedly mounted at the top of the base body. The unmanned aerial vehicle for delivering the life buoys can rapidly fly to an accident site and deliver the life buoys in time, and can help a plurality of overboard personnel at the same time, so that the rescuing efficiency is improved.

The invention relates to the field of sea survival, in particular relates to an air net-launching-type salvage net system. The air net-launching-type salvage net system comprises a net-launching device arranged on an aircraft, wherein the net-launching device comprises a launching tube. A salvage net is connected with a lifting rope, and the other end of the lifting rope is connected with a winch. The lifting rope is arranged between the salvage net and a net-launching power device, and one end of the net-launching power device, which is far away from the salvage net, is provided with a firing mechanism for driving the net-launching power device. A stimulating button used for triggering the firing mechanism is arranged in a display control system, and a positioning aiming device comprises a direction adjuster used for adjusting the direction of the launching tube. The air net-launching type salvage net system can reach air flight rescue, integrates scanning, ranging and locking for objects in one, and then salvages through the net-launching device. The system saves the rescue time, and can precisely salvage the objects so as to avoid of missing the best salvage time.

A search and rescue drone system includes a buoyant body member, a frame attached to the buoyant body member for carrying a motor and propeller, and an electronic array including a camera, GPS, an EPIRB radio distress beacon, and a transmitter / receiver for remote control flying the drone and communicating with an operator. The search and rescue drone may be flown manually, or may have some autonomous flight and locator capabilities. For example, in one embodiment, the search and rescue drone may be programmed to simply fly to the location of an electronic wearable device, like a bracelet, that is worn by a man overboard. In another embodiment, the search and rescue drone includes a basket, harness, or other means for actually recovering a swimmer in distress, and flying that person back to safety on a ship or on shore.

The invention relates to an intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle for rescuing drowning persons. The intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle comprises a rescue device comprising a main air pipe, a plurality of branch pipes and a plurality of rescue units. Each rescue unit comprises a telescopic device comprising a shell; telescopic assemblies are arranged in the shells; each telescopic assembly comprises a third drive motor and a telescopic unit; and each telescopic unit comprises a third drive shaft and a sleeve. A plurality of ventilation units are arranged in the main air pipe and comprise second drive motors, buffer blocks, driving frames, connecting rods and blocking blocks. According to the intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle for rescuing the drowning persons, life buoys are in air-free states, so that resistance borne by the unmanned aerial vehicle at the time of flying is reduced, the unmanned aerial vehicle can quickly fly to the drowning persons; an air pump inflates the life buoys through the ventilation units, and life buoy putting is completed through the telescopic devices; and in addition, the unmanned aerial vehicle can carry the multiple life buoys to rescue the multiple drowning persons, so that the rescue time is greatly reduced, and the practicality of equipment is improved.

The invention relates to aircraft airdrop life-saving apparatus which is mainly composed of a waterproof windproof tarp 1, an inflatable floating bag, a safety valve 7 and a one-way air inlet valve 8, the waterproof windproof tarp 1 is arranged on the floating bag of the life-saving apparatus, the inflatable floating bag is divided into two layers of the upper inflatable floating bag 2 and the lower inflatable floating bag 3, the safety valve 7 is positioned on the floating bag of the life-saving apparatus, the one-way air inlet valve 8 is positioned at one side of the inflatable floating bag, an automatic inflation device 4 when meeting with water and a high-pressure air cylinder 5 are arranged between the upper inflatable floating bag 2 and the lower inflatable floating bag 3. The automatic inflation device 4 and the high-pressure air cylinder 5 are respectively parallelly positioned at the two sides of the inflatable floating bag. A self-drainage device 6 and a self-righting device 9 are arranged below the life-saving apparatus. The self-drainage device 6 is positioned in the middle of the space which is below the life-saving apparatus, and the self-righting device 9 is distributed on four angles below the life-saving apparatus. When a ship is in distress, lives of personnel are threatened, and a rescue ship can not arrive to the scene at the first time, the aircraft airdrop life-saving apparatus can be carried to the accident scene for implementing the airdrop by utilizing the speed advantage of a helicopter or a fixed wing aircraft. The airdrop life-saving apparatus can form a life raft through the automatic inflation by the automatic inflation device after being fallen into the water. Persons in distress can enter the life raft for waiting for the further rescue of the rescue ship, thereby wining precious time for the rescue work.

The invention relates to the field of aerospace and in particular to a guide net shooter for recovering a marine returning capsule in a high sea state. A handle (16) is fixed on a shell (2), one side of the shell (2) extends in a way of conical dispersion to form a launching tube (9), a balance weight guide ring (8) is inserted into the launching tube (9), each weigh balance ring is tied with a guide net (10) and a guide rope (22), the roots of all launching tubes (9) are mutually communicated to form an injection chamber (12) which is communicated with the inner part of the shell (2) through a vent hole (6) formed in the centre of a front panel of the shell (2); and the axis of the shell (2) is provided with a valve core rod (5) of which the front end is pressed against the central vent hole (6) on the inner wall of the front panel of the shell (2), and a sealed gas storage chamber (15) in the shell (2) is filled with a high-pressure inertia gas; and a trigger rod (13), through a linkage mechanism, drives the valve core rod (5) to move back and forth, so the front end of the valve core rod (5) is pressed against or departs from the vent hole (6). When the guide net shooter is used, the salvage area can be increased, a target can be easily caught, and the operation and the implementation are flexible and convenient, so the salvage accuracy can be improved, and the salvage aim can be reliably fulfilled.

An intelligent underwater rescue method based on an unmanned aerial vehicle comprises the following steps that a rescue device is connected with the unmanned aerial vehicle, and the unmanned aerial vehicle is started and operates; when controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle to fly in the preset speed according to a preset route, a processing device detects whether human body information exists in water or not in real time through an infrared detector; if yes, the processing device acquires whether an area containing the human body information is a safe area or not; if the area containing the human body information is not the safe area, the processing device detects whether a human body exists under water or not through the infrared detector; if the human body exists under the water, the rescue device is controlled to be disconnected with a connecting device, and an image of the human body under the water is shot through a camera; according to the image of the human body under the water, the processing device controls the rescue device to travel to the image position and analyzes whether the human body is in an unconscious state or not; if the human body is in the unconscious state, a storage bin is controlled to be open, the human body is put into the storage bin, a drainage device is controlled to drain liquid in the storage bin, and the storage bin floats upwards to the water surface; the processing device controls the unmanned aerial vehicle to fly to the position of the rescue device and controls the unmanned aerial vehicle to be connected with the rescue device; and after connecting, the unmanned aerial vehicle is controlled to fly to an emergency center.

The invention provides an unmanned aerial vehicle life buoy dropping device. The unmanned aerial vehicle life buoy dropping device comprises a connecting mechanism, a life buoy fixing mechanism, a dropping mechanism and a flight directing mechanism, wherein the connecting mechanism comprises a ring flange and supports which are fixed to the ring flange, the life buoy fixing mechanism is fixed to the lower portion of the connecting mechanism, the life buoy fixing mechanism comprises a life buoy sleeve and life buoy baffles installed at the lower end of the life buoy sleeve, a life buoy is arranged on the outer side of the life buoy sleeve in a sleeving mode, the dropping mechanism is installed in the life buoy fixing mechanism and comprises a steering engine rotor, a steering engine stator, guiding ropes and guiding pulleys, and the flight directing mechanism is installed on the lower portion of the dropping mechanism and comprises a two-axis stabilization camera. According to the unmanned aerial vehicle life buoy dropping device, the design of utilizing the baffles to block the life buoy is adopted, one life buoy can be accurately dropped in one time, and one unmanned aerial vehicle can rescue multiple targets during rescue.

The invention relates to the field of aerospace, in particular to a cod-end structure for recovering a marine returning capsule in a high sea state. The cod-end structure comprises a guide component and a catching component, wherein triangular, rectangular, pentagonal or hexagonal peaks are tied with a balance-weight guide ring (8) respectively at the periphery of a guide net which has a silk screen structure, and the balance weight guide rings are tied with a guide rope (18) respectively; the mouth part of the string bag-shaped cod-end (20) has a plurality of metal rings (19), a plurality of guide ropes (18) are uniformly distributed and pass through the metal rings (19) at corresponding positions, a lifting rope (22) passes through the metal rings (19) in turn, one end of the lifting rope (22) is shaped as a rope loop and connected with a shackle (22a), while the other end penetrates outside from a round hole of the shackle (22a), and the central position of the outer back part of the cad-end (20) is connected with a tail traction rope (21). The cod-end structure for recovering the returning capsule in a high sea state can implement a two-step salvage method, so the returning capsule (G) can be easily caught and recovered under the relative shaking condition; and a target can be exactly seized by the guide component and easily and smoothly caught and covered by the catching component, so the returning capsule (G) can be recovered and lifted reliably.

The invention discloses a water lifesaving capsule capable of being catapulted. The water lifesaving capsule comprises an equipment storage shell, a positioning communication unit, a water-sensitive self-triggering device, a high-pressure air bottle, a compression folding air bag and an air bag storage shell. The air bag storage shell and the equipment storage shell form an integrated shell in a buckling mode, the compression folding air bag is usually folded in the air bag storage shell, a water inflow window is formed in the equipment storage shell, when the water lifesaving capsule is catapulted into the water, the water-sensitive self-triggering device induces that the water lifesaving capsule falls into the water and activates the high-pressure air bottle to inflate the compression folding air bag, the lifesaving capsule is unfolded, meanwhile, a hydraulic switch is turned on, a power source supplies power, the positioning communication unit starts to work, and a Beidou / GPS double-mode positioning module obtains position data and then sends position information to a rescue network platform through a communication module. The water lifesaving capsule is in a catapulting foldingmode, design is reasonable, mounting is convenient, catapulting is quick, rescue time is shortened, the size is small, plenty of the capsules can be conveniently stored and carried, styles of the compression folding air bag are various, and the capsule can be applied to water lifesaving.

The invention discloses a water surface comprehensive rescue system and a water surface comprehensive rescue method. A fixed-wing unmanned machine and a multi-rotor-wing unmanned machine are combined to complete the water surface rescue; cruise monitoring is carried out by utilizing the advantage of long time of endurance of the fixed-wing unmanned machine, and the state of the water surface is monitored, while the multi-rotor-wing unmanned machine has the characteristic of hovering flexibility and can flexibly complete specific motions of rescue; the fixed-wing unmanned machine and the multi-rotor-wing unmanned machine are combined to achieve the aim of rapid rescue; to-be-rescued people wear colorful pull rings and pull the pull rings on hands when encounter near-drowning, then a near-drowning region displays a color different from the peripheral water body, and a color sensor of the fixed-wing unmanned machine senses the situation, so that the rescue speed is accelerated; the pull rings are provided with dye floccules capable of floating, are convenient to fish, cannot pollute the environment, and can be recycled; the colorful hand rings are low in price.

An underwater exploration system enables signal transmission and reception to and from an underwater vehicle through wireless communication, that enables carriage of the underwater vehicle to a survey point and collection of the underwater vehicle, and, further, that enables a quick change of the survey point. The underwater exploration system includes: an underwater exploration unit including: a floating member including a first antenna and configured to support the first antenna above a water surface; and an underwater vehicle connected to the first antenna via a signal line; a communication device including a second antenna configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal to and from the first antenna; and an unmanned aerial vehicle configured to carry the underwater exploration unit and drop the underwater exploration unit to the water surface.

An emergency pod configured for use with a rotary wing aircraft is provided including a rigid, generally hollow shell. The shell includes a movable portion configured to move between a closed position and an open position. An inflatable raft is arranged within an interior portion of the hollow shell. The life raft is coupled to an inflation mechanism. A first activation device and a second activation device are operably coupled to the inflation mechanism. The first activation device and the second activation device are configured to operate the inflation mechanism to initiation inflation of the life raft when a force is applied thereto.

The invention discloses a life ring throwing mount and an unmanned aerial vehicle. The life ring throwing mount comprises a connecting frame and a plurality of peripherally arranged life ring mount assemblies around the center of the connecting frame, wherein each life ring mount assembly comprises a mounting plate fixedly connected onto the connecting frame, a throwing mechanism mounted on the mounting plate, and a life ring arranged below the throwing mechanism. The unmanned aerial vehicle comprises a vehicle body and a mainboard in communication connection with a ground station, wherein the connecting frame is fixed at the bottom of the vehicle body, and steering engines inside all the life ring mount assemblies are respectively connected onto the mainboard. A plurality of life rings can be thrown simultaneously, the throwing structures are simple, and mechanical breakdown is unlikely to appear.