182results about "Crew accommodation" patented technology

A chair is stabilized in two orthogonal axis, pitch and roll, can hold a person stable in relation to the horizon. This solution to motion sickness is effective because the fluid in the inner ear no longer moves in relationship to the vehicle motion upon which the person is located. Therefore a main cause of motion sickness is substantially reduced or eliminated. Additionally, the invention can be a table, a bed, or even an entire room that is isolated from the rolling, pitching and jolting imparted by the host vehicle. Additionally, some applications such as a chair and table, may be stabilized in a third orthogonal axis, azimuth.

A motor driven personal watercraft, includes a multi-portion hull, an internal combustion engine, and a fuel tank. The upper portion includes a recessed cockpit region configured to accommodate a seat for a user and a storage container / area. The lower portion includes a user interface configured to provide controllable steering for said personal watercraft. A second user interface is connected to the motor allows the user to control motor's output. The motor is a low profile internal combustion engine having a height of less than about seven inches, and fits within the volume defined by the upper and lower portion when in their operational configuration.

The portable barge access ladder has a pair of coaming frame members positioned outside of a barge coaming with a plurality of safety treads there-between forming a coaming ladder portion. The ladder includes transverse frame members extending across the barge coaming with a decking tread member there-between forming a walkway for the operator to easily traverse the coaming. Angled hold frame members extend into the barge hold with conventional safety treads there-between at least partially forming a hold access ladder portion. The ladder includes adjustable legs slidably received in the hold frame members with one or more auxiliary treads attachable to the legs forming optional additional treads for the ladder as the legs are extended. The removable auxiliary treads will be used where the legs are extended beyond standard tread spacing. A combing securing mechanism is provided to prevent ladder lateral slippage during use.

In order to reduce the pressure receiving area of the entire ship body, reduce the air pressure resistance, lower the position of the center of gravity of the ship, and improve the stability of the ship body, a liquefied gas carrying ship (1) is provided with: flat spherical tanks (2) for storing a liquefied gas therein, the flat spherical tanks (2) being arranged in the bow-stern direction of the ship and affixed to the ship body (5) through skirts (3); and a single continuous tank cover (7) for covering the upper half of the flat spherical tanks (2) and extending along the bow-stern and width directions of the ship. The tank cover (7) is rigidly joined to the ship body (5) and ensures, integrally with the ship body (5), the longitudinal strength.

A protective platform is disclosed that includes a panel that moves from a first position to a second position. In the second position, the protective platform may protect swimmers from the rotating propeller of the boat and provides a way for swimmers to enter and / or exit the boat. The protective platform may also cover the swim platform in its entirety.

A suspension system for personal water craft. The personal water craft suspension system includes a gas-inflated bladder (10) that is adapted for placement between a hull and seat of a personal water craft. The suspension system further includes at least one telescopic connector between the seat and the hull. For the typical personal water craft, the suspension system includes a back seat telescopic latch stud (18) and a front seat telescopic U hook(40). These telescopic connectors enable the seat to move up and down with respect to the hull with the bladder sandwiched between the seat and hull. The suspension system is operative to absorb or dampen the effects of bumps and other forces acting on personal water craft when a user is seated on the personal water craft and is riding over rough water.

System for evacuation of personnel from a capsized vessel via a lockable escape hatch (103) in the bottom of said vessel, characterized in that the system comprises a first lockable escape hatch (105), said first lockable escape hatch(105) leads to an evacuation room (107), said room (107) is provided with a second lockable escape hatch (103), said room (107) is illuminated by lamps (201) receiving energy from a battery pack (202) not connected to the said vessel's energy system,said first and second lockable escape hatch (103, 105) cannot be opened simultaneously,in relation to said first lockable escape hatch (105), it is connected a device (106) for climbing, and said climbing device (106) unfolds when the said vessel has a lopsidedness in excess of a predetermined number of degrees.

An auxiliary deck assembly for a pontoon boat includes a stowable auxiliary deck and mounting structure. The mounting structure swingably supports the auxiliary deck for swinging movement between stowed and operating positions. The auxiliary deck is configured so that the auxiliary deck surface is generally aligned with the primary deck surface when the auxiliary deck is in the operating position. The auxiliary deck is further configured so that the auxiliary deck surface is oriented at a generally upright angle relative to the primary deck surface when the auxiliary deck is in the stowed position.

Boarding systems for retractable ladder boats comprising a stern platform and a retractable ladder; a water-tight casing-sheath for said ladder, equipped, inside, with sliding guides and incorporated in the stern platform, comprises a plurality of sliding slides, housed and limited inside the casing-sheath. The stern platform favours a receiving space, provided inside or outside, for receiving the casing-sheath and its optimal fixing. The sliding slides have a free stroke on the entire length of the sliding guides since such free stroke is limited at the ends of the sliding guides opening out on the opening port, through locking elements that allow the sliding slides to partially slip out from the sliding guides. The casing-sheath is retractably housed inside the housing space, formed in the stern platform.

The invention discloses a heating device for a ship escape channel and the ship escape channel. The heating device comprises a bracket assembly and a heating assembly, wherein the bracket assembly is mounted on a deck of the ship escape channel, and comprises a bracket and supporting legs used for supporting the bracket; the ends, far away from the bracket, of the supporting legs are connected with the deck; and the heating assembly is detachably mounted on the bracket. In the heating device disclosed by the invention, the supporting legs are welded onto the surface of the deck, thereby avoiding the phenomenon that the using stability of the ship escape channel is influenced due to moving of the stepping surface of the ship escape channel; the heating assembly is detachably mounted on the bracket, so that the maintenance and the replacement are convenient when the heating assembly is damaged; and a hollow structure is formed between the heating assembly and the deck, and heat transfer from the heating assembly to one side of the deck can be reduced through the hollow structure, thereby improving the heating and freeze-proof effects of the ship escape channel.

A personal watercraft (PWC) is disclosed that is convertible between a stand-up type watercraft, and at least one of a straddle-type watercraft and a sit-down type watercraft. The PWC includes a hull supporting a power source, and a deck, the deck supporting a steering handle support assembly. A seat assembly is removably supported by the deck, such that the seat assembly can be selectively removed by the user so that the personal watercraft can be operated with and without the seat assembly.

The invention belongs to the field of design of intelligent equipment, and in particular provides a four-legged table having a self-balancing function. The four-legged table comprises a gesture detection module (1), a lithium battery (2), a processor (3), a driving circuit (4), a first electric push rod (5), a second electric push rod (6), a third electric push rod (7), a fourth electric push rod (8) and a tabletop (8). The gesture of the tabletop can be detected by virtue of the gesture detection module; and the dynamic regulation of the four electric push rods can be controlled by virtue of a proportional integral differential control algorithm, so that the tabletop is constantly kept balanced. The four-legged table having the self-balancing function disclosed by the invention has the self-balancing function; and the four-legged table has the characteristic that the tabletop can be kept balanced in environments of violent shock and wobble.

Provided is a liquefied gas carrier ship wherein a gangway ladder installed in a terminal at which the liquefied gas carrier ship is scheduled to dock can be bridged entirely even if an upper deck is arranged at a low position. A liquefied gas carrier (1) comprises a plurality of spherical tanks (2) for storing liquefied gas therein, arranged in the bow-stern direction and secured to the hull (5) through a skirt, and one or a plurality of tank covers (7) covering the upper half portion of the spherical tanks (2) and extending in the bow-stern direction and the beam direction, wherein a walkway (20) on which a gangway ladder installed in a terminal docked for loading / unloading work is to be bridged is provided above an upper deck (6) located between the side surface (7a) of the tank cover (7) and a side shell (9).

The invention relates to an ecological water-free excrement treatment device, which comprises a mainframe and a pedestal pan, wherein the main frame comprises a fermentation tank and a motor chamber which are parallelly arranged; a motor is arranged in the motor chamber; the upper part of the fermentation tank is provided with an opening corresponding to a movable baffle on the bottom of the pedestal pan; a first stirrer and a second stirrer connected with the motor through a mechanical transmission device are arranged in the fermentation tank, and have a stirring cage structure respectively, wherein the second stirrer is parallelly arranged on the lower lateral part of the first stirrer, and the volume swept by stirring of the second stirrer is smaller than that swept by stirring of the first stirrer; a microbial agent is filled in the fermentation tank; and the outer bottom of the fermentation tank is provided with a heating device. The excrement treatment device is particularly suitable for locomotive or steamship drivers.

The invention provides a platform type ship with a small escaping device. The platform type ship comprises platform type ship body and an escaping system and is characterized in that the platform typeship body comprises a ship body and standing columns mounted at the bottom of the ship body, the ship body comprises a platform and a cabin, the platform is mounted at the top of the cabin, limit columns and a first motor are mounted at the top of the platform, the first motor is mounted on one side of one limit column, a first belt pulley is arranged on the output shaft of the first motor, a first rotary shaft is arranged between the two limit columns, an escaping ladder winds the first rotary shaft, one end of the first rotary shaft is provided with a connecting shaft, the limit column on the motor side is provided with a through hole, one side of the limit column on the motor side is provided with a second belt pulley, one end of the connecting shaft penetrates the through hole to be connected with the second belt pulley, and the cabin is provided with a second rotary shaft. The platform type ship is reasonable in structure, high in safety performance and capable of fast rescuing trapped people.

A design and construction method reduces the amount of structural material (e.g., steel) required when applying the corrosion allowance to the design of floating offshore structures. The (hull) structural elements involved are typically flat or curved panels where at least one side is wet, e.g.; inside a ballast tank or exposed to seawater. The method minimizes the area to which the largest corrosion allowance is applied. One principle of this method is to have a maximum of one wet side for each hull watertight plating element. The stiffening of this hull structural element is applied to the dry side, i.e., the side that requires the lesser amount of corrosion allowance. Practice of the method typically results in a hull design wherein ballast tanks do not share a common structural element with either another ballast tank or the hull external shell.

A watercraft configured for use in a body of water is provided including a deck and at least one propulsion mechanism mounted at a first end of the deck. The at least one propulsion mechanism is configured to move the watercraft within the body of water. A man lift movable between a lowered position and a raised position is mounted to the deck. The man lift is configured to raise a person a vertical distance above the deck. Mounting brackets are arranged adjacent a first and second side of the deck. The mounting brackets are translatable between a retracted position and a deployed position. In the deployed position, the mounting brackets extend perpendicularly from the first side and the second side, respectively. An inflatable pontoon is removably coupled to each of the mounting brackets.

A motor driven personal watercraft, including a multi-portion hull, an internal combustion engine, and a fuel tank. The upper portion includes a recessed cockpit region configured to accommodate a seat for a user and a storage container / area. The lower portion includes a user interface configured to provide controllable steering for said personal watercraft. A second user interface is connected to the motor allows the user to control motor's output. The motor is a low profile internal combustion engine having a height of less than about seven inches, and fits within the volume defined by the upper and lower portion when in their operational configuration.

Boarding systems for retractable ladder boats comprising a stern platform and a retractable ladder; a water-tight casing-sheath for said ladder, equipped, inside, with sliding guides and incorporated in the stern platform, comprises a plurality of sliding slides, housed and limited inside the casing-sheath. The stern platform favors a receiving space, provided inside or outside, for receiving the casing-sheath and its optimal fixing. The sliding slides have a free stroke on the entire length of the sliding guides since such free stroke is limited at the ends of the sliding guides opening out on the opening port, through locking elements that allow the sliding slides to partially slip out from the sliding guides. The casing-sheath is retractably housed inside the housing space, formed in the stern platform.

A vehicle seat includes a side frame of a seat cushion having a side frame opposing portion extending in a front-rear direction of the seat cushion, and a bracket member disposed below the side frame having a bracket opposing portion extending in the front-rear direction and opposing the side frame opposing portion. The side frame opposing portion and the bracket opposing portion are provided such that the side frame opposing portion and the bracket opposing portion come in contact with each other in a state in which the seat cushion sinks rearward and downward when a load acted on the vehicle seat from behind is transmitted to the seat cushion from the seat back via a connection part. An arrangement interval between the bracket opposing portion and the side frame opposing portion is smaller in a front side than in a rear side in the front-rear direction.

A personal watercraft (PWC) is disclosed that is convertible between a stand-up type watercraft, and at least one of a straddle-type watercraft and a sit-down type watercraft. The PWC includes a hull supporting a power source, and a deck, the deck supporting a steering handle support assembly. A seat assembly is removably supported by the deck, such that the seat assembly can be selectively removed by the user so that the personal watercraft can be operated with and without the seat assembly.

This invention relates to a stair assembly to be arranged in a stairwell opening of an upper floor, comprising: —a girder assembly; —a plurality of steps mounted to the girder assembly; and —a guard structure, wherein the girder assembly is pivotably mountable to the upper floor to pivot about a pivot axis between an operational position, in which the girder assembly extends obliquely downwards, and a hidden position, in which the girder assembly extends horizontally, wherein the moveable guard structure is moveable between an operational position, in which the guard structure extends upwards, and a hidden position, in which the guard structure has moved downwards, and wherein the stair assembly is configured such that when the girder assembly and the guard structure are in their respective hidden positions a person is able to walk over the stair assembly as part of the upper floor.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a device arranged in a swimming pool and used for reducing ship rolling, and a control method thereof. The device comprises: a platform which is arranged on the lower portion of the bottom face of the swimming pool and can be driven by a lifting driving device to ascend and descend. a plurality of stand columns which are sequentially arranged on the platform in the width direction of the ship, wherein each stand column comprises a base arranged on the platform and a blade rotationally connected with the base through a rotating shaft, each blade comprises a rotatable part and a fixed part, and when the platform rises to the top, the lower edge of each rotatable part is higher than the bottom surface of the swimming pool, and when the platform lowersto the bottom, the upper edge of the rotatable part is flush with the upper surface of the bottom of the swimming pool, and a sealing part is arranged between the bottom of the swimming pool and theblades; and a control system in communication connection with the communication system and used for acquiring the rolling angle and the rolling period, analyzing to obtain the rotating angle and controlling the rotatable parts to rotate to the rotating angle when the platform is lifted to the top so as to adjust the area of a channel formed among the rotatable parts of the plurality of blades.

The invention refers to an elevator system offering sophisticated transport capacity even under conditions where the passengers are not familiar with the use of a destination call system, e.g. on cruise ships. The elevator control system (10) comprises at least one group control with a destination control system (DCS), and at least one elevator group. The at least one elevator group has elevators (14-22) with a different destination range, destination operating panels (DOPs) (24, 26) at each landing, car operating panels (COPs) (38) located in the elevators, hall lantern means (30, 32) indicating the moving direction of their corresponding elevator, and signaling means (32, 35) indicating the arrival of an elevator at the landing (12), wherein the DCS 52 is configured to display, in the vicinty of the elevators a range identifier of the elevators (14-22) serving the destination and to indicate the next arriving elevator.

A variety of multi-use, configurable watercraft is disclosed. A first type of watercraft used in a first water-based activity may be used as a component in a second type of watercraft used in a second water-based activity. For example, a stand-up paddleboard (SUP) may be used for paddle boarding, and then converted into a kayak, sailboat, catamaran, motorboat, or other type of vessel by adding one or more components to the SUP. In one embodiment, two paddleboards are used to construct a variety of multi-hull watercraft.

A water walking apparatus having a pair of inflatable pontoons with footwells at their center, allowing user to step into. The pontoons are connected together by stretch cords and a platform that allows the user to sit and rest after walking on the water. The platform has a ladder inside the cavity of the platform assisting the user to get on the apparatus from water. Pontoons have pockets at bottom for scoops, the scoops pass over water freely when pontoons are going forward, and drop down into water when opposite pontoon is going forward. When scoops are down into water they reduce the backward movement of pontoon. The front ends of pontoons are up and out of water like the bow on a boat. The apparatus can come apart for easy storing and transporting.