5369 results about "Hull" patented technology

Apparatus for painting hulls of boats includes at least an anthropomorphic robot having paint dispensing elements, at least a supporting body which defines a chamber for containing the robot and which includes at least an opening for applying paint on a reference surface, handling elements of the body along at least a direction of moving close to / away from the surface, air suction elements to form a suction stream substantially along the entire surrounding edge of the opening, according to a preset suctionable air flow, command and control elements operatively connected to the handling elements to control movement of the body along the moving direction, sensor elements associated with the body to detect the distance of the surrounding edge from the reference surface and operatively connected to the command and control elements, the latter being programmed to adjust the distance of the surrounding edge of the opening from the reference surface.

The invention discloses an unmanned-device-based water quality patrolling, contaminant originating system and a method thereof, wherein the system comprises an unmanned plane, an unmanned ship and a shore-based monitoring system. The unmanned ship carrying a water quality detection device is capable of performing on-line detection of water quality across a water area at which the unmanned ship is located. The unmanned ship carries a small-sized unmanned plane, and a ship body thereof provides docking and charging device for the unmanned plane, thereby achieving a wide patrolling range of the unmanned plane. Both the unmanned ship and the unmanned plane are equipped with an HD (High-Definition) video monitoring system for separately achieving a water surface patrolling function. The invention provides a brand new water quality monitoring approaches by means of carrying theunmanned plane on the unmanned ship for patrolling a polluted water area in a space formula manner. A combination of the unmanned plane and the unmanned ship uses a characteristic of a wide view of the unmanned plane, to further achieve tracking of a pollution source, and also better compensates for defects of separate patrol of the unmanned ship or unmanned plane, thereby facilitating high efficiency and precision of water quality monitoring, and improving informationalized level of water quality monitoring.

For any directed sea waves the rocking propelled ship can reach high speeds if it utilizes an sea waves energy by means of 1. A rocking propulsor, which is a couple of hydrofoils kept elastic cross by pivots on the extreme points of streamline narrow keel-rocker, extended far out off long sizes of the ship and thus wags hydrofoils vertically with a speed and an amplitude being sufficient for its proper work; 2. A "pendulum design" of a rocking propelled ship, described by a light wide body with weight, concentrated in a middle lowest ship's part and having a vertical keel with a heavy bob. This design provides the highest efficiency of an energy transmission from waves to ship rocking. In case of need to increase ship's speed some more its rocker should be rigged by an on-board oscillator, which is a central heavy flywheel, which is alternately twisted up to speed by a serve motor in both directions on cross axle in time (resonance) of ship rocking. In order to accelerate and change revolution directions without energy loss the flywheel is supplied by spring returners. If the ship is assigned to navigate in both sea state cases (high or calm) the oscillator is mounted into the rocking propulsor, which is attached to the ship bottom with a hinger. It can be locked to the bottom to be swinged by a rocking ship hull to propell the ship by wave generated rocking motion. It can be unlocked to be swinged by the board oscillator undependently from the ship hull to propel the ship in case of calm sea.

Method of cyclic anchoring itinerant (CAI) propulsion uses a phenomenon of anchored float horizontal motion as wave rises. The method repeats a cycle: Detaching the anchor from an immobile medium as a wave begins descent; Accelerating it in new position as the wave descends; Reattaching it to said medium as a wave rises. The medium can be railway or water. Respectively a trolley or a glider works as the anchor. To drag as anchor the glider orients perpendicular to the link. Improvements: adding an auxiliary propeller accelerating the glider, connecting bow and aft gliders with a single boom, making it telescopic, adding a small submarine hull for permanent observation water space, scientific researches, entertainment. The method allows to reequip watercrafts to all-weather, ocean going watercrafts with an unlimited range of operation. These solutions can be widely used in marine rescue remedies. Experimental models of CAI propulsion system show remarkable results.

A boat for retrieving energy from a flowing stream of water, such as a river or tidal flow, which can be easily moved to a convenient location and which is capable of capturing a significant portion of the energy of the flowing stream. The boat has a bottom and two sides, forming an elongate hull with a bow and a stern at opposite ends, and means for anchoring the boat to hold it stationary in a stream of water. The boat has openable hinged members at the bow and stern to allow water to enter the interior of, and to flow through, the hull from one end to the other. Devices such as paddles are arranged inside the hull for converting energy of the water flowing through the hull into mechanical energy of a rotating shaft.

A sealing device for use with a drive shaft of a water vessel. The sealing device comprises a housing for a seal and bearing, a compression ring, a lip seal flange attachment and a diaphragm for tracking the movement of the shaft. The diaphragm is made of a resilient, flexible material and is operatively connected to the seal housing. In operation, the diaphragm tracks the motion of the drive shaft so that the drive shaft may move freely in the hull of the vessel. The diaphragm allows the rigid seal housing to also move in response to any axial, lateral or circular-axial (wobble-like) movement of the shaft so that a constant seal around the shaft is provided.

A low drag ship hull generally includes a side air cavity initiated by wetted bow section, bottom air cavity initiated by wetted bottom nosepiece, wetted stem section that closes a lower portion of the side cavity, wetted bottom tailpiece that closes the bottom cavity, stabilizing fin, and propulsor. The bottom of a catamaran hull cross structure includes bow impact alleviator. Optional flaps in the stabilizing fins, together with optional all-movable canard fins are used for control. Different wetted bow sections and retractable means are used for starting side cavities. A low drag hull may utilize multiple air cavities. A new low drag hull includes a new upper bottom air cavity that is initiated by an upper bottom wetted nosepiece, and closed by an upper bottom tailpiece. Alternative designs include a shortened forward hull spaced ahead of a shortened aft hull, and a hydrofoil-supported trimaran with low drag hulls.

An automatic docking or parking system, comprising a plurality of left side and right side distance sensing transducers to determine the distance in this application between the hull of a marine vessel and an external structure and transmit the information to a processor control unit to control the systems propulsion elements to automatically dock and maintain a vessel's predetermined distance from an external structure.

The invention relates to steel for a 36kg-grade ocean platform and a production method thereof, belonging to the technical field of a ship body and structural steel for oceanographic engineering. A steel plate with thickness of 5-50mm comprises the following chemical components: 0.14-0.18 percent of C, 0.20-0.50 percent of Si, 1.30-1.60 percent of Mn, 0.02-0.05 percent of Nb, less than or equal to 0.005 percent of S, less than or equal to 0.015 percent of P, 0.020-0.04 percent of Als, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities; a steel plate with the thickness of 50-80mm comprises the following chemical components: 0.12-0.18 percent of C, 0.20-0.50 percent of Si, 1.30-1.60 percent of Mn, 0.02-0.05 percent of Nb, 0.02-0.06 percent of V, 0.010-0.020 percent of Ti, 0.10-0.40 percent of Ni, less than or equal to 0.005 percent of S, less than or equal to 0.015 percent of P, 0.020-0.04 percent of Als, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities; and in addition, the sum of Nb, V and Ti is less than or equal to 0.12 percent. The production method has the advantages of low production cost, uniform and stable comprehensive performance and good cold bending property.

A water spray device for cleaning the hull of a boat is disclosed. The spray device includes a handle and wand portion. The handle portion has an angled portion separating an upper and lower part, a channel formed through the handle and a top and bottom open end. The top end engages a hose connected to a water source. A shut-off valve is disposed within the handle channel proximal to the top end. The wand portion is an elongated tube having an channel formed therein, an open top end for engaging the handle bottom end, a closed bottom end and a plurality of spray nozzles disposed along the wand. Water enters the handle portion, flows into the wand portion and out the spray nozzles. A user of the novel water spray device simply positions the spray nozzles towards the boat hull from the deck of the boat while holding the spray device and walks around the perimeter of the boat to quickly, easily and thoroughly clean the boat hull.

Provided is the utilization of face panels (20) containing core materials (16) topologically structured at small scale, relative to a system (e.g. ship hull) that utilize them. They are optimized Lo absorb or reflect the energy subject to their while also possessing the ability to efficiently support high structural loads. It is entirely compatible with double-hull ship design concepts, because the volume between the hulls is used to locate the energy absorbing material substructures. The approach can be generalized to provide protection from impacts of low, intermediate or high intensity. The technology to design such structures requires materials selection and cell topology designs coupled with and techniques for the affordable manufacturing of structures that must he able to sustain severe dynamic deformations. It requires a coupling of effects occurring and phenomena that occur at the materials and structural levels.

The invention relates to a ship collectivizing supervisory system which has the function of automatically changing the Beidou Satellite communication mode and the GPRS wireless network communication mode and can achieve the data interaction between a ship-mounted terminal and a group supervisory center based on the two communication modes. The ship-mounted terminal is installed on a ship body, a solar cell panel is adopted in a power supply subsystem for charging a lithium battery and a standby battery, and the terminal can reliably work for a long time without an external power source. The GPS information of a ship is stored in real time, and a communication unit is utilized for returning the information of a GPS, alarming and the state of the ship-mounted terminal and the like to the group supervisory center. A software service platform of the supervisory center combining with a GIS system visually displays and manages the supervised ship in a unified mode. The ship collectivizing supervisory system solves the problems that a communication dead zone exists in an ordinary mobile equipment open sea monitoring and equipment cannot work continuously for a long time, the ship collectivizing supervisory system is suitable for collectivizing monitoring of fishing boats and other ships, shipping is convoyed, and the supervising strength and efficiency of fishery administration are improved.

A water skimmer vessel has two hulls (12, 14) between which a debris collection net or basket-like catcher (22) is arranged. Hinged flaps (68) are provided at each end of the catcher and operate to allow inflow but block outflow of debris from the catcher. Each hull of the vessel is equiped with amoter covered by a guard (28). The vessel may move in either direction and is equipped with sensors (30) on each hulll for effecting the turning and reversing of the vessel upon contact with pool skimmer box inlet (206) and the vessel can be controlled to enter the dock and permit the contents of the catcher to be discharged into the current of pool water flowing into the skimmer box.

A computer controlled method utilizing robots for the fairing and painting of marine vessel surfaces comprising the steps of analyzing the vessel hull and / or superstructure for imperfections; applying a fairing compound to the imperfections; smoothing the imperfections into alignment with the hull and / or superstructure; and applying a final paint finish to the hull and / or superstructure.

An intelligent unmanned aquaculture robot comprises a ground station, remote control equipment, a hull part, a sailing controller, a feeding execution part, a bait casting controller, a data acquisition module, a data and image transmission module. The sailing controller receives instructions from the ground station, the remote controller or a shipborne panel, and is divided into a remote control mode and an automatic mode; the automatic mode completes scheduled sailing independently in an unmanned manner according to a preset route and a GPS (Global Position System) via real-time dynamic course control and velocity control, so that the fixed route is ensured; and the feeding velocity controlled dynamically in real time according to parameters such as real-time voyage, velocity and material quantity, so that uniform bait casting is ensured. The data and image transmission part transmits data collected by the data acquisition part and operating parameters related to a system to the ground station in real time. The robot can complete tasks such as the bait casting, fertilizing, spraying, seeding, mowing, oxygenating, pool patrolling, bird expelling, monitoring and the like independently. With the adoption of the robot, fixed quality, fixed points, fixed time and fixed quantity of large-scale aquaculture are realized, and the excess dependence of the aquiculture on the labor force is reduced.

The invention discloses an adjustable pipe hanging bracket and an adjustable hanging bracket assembly for suppressing ship pipe vibration noise, wherein the adjustable hanging bracket assembly comprises the hanging bracket. The hanging bracket comprises a base plate and an adjustment bolt, and the base plate is fixedly connected with a ship body. The hanging bracket is characterized in that the adjustment bolt comprises a bolt part on the upper portion and a spherical part at the bottom, outer threads are arranged on the bolt part, a bolt hole matched with the bolt part is formed in the base plate, the adjustment bolt is installed in the bolt hole, the spherical part of the adjustment bolt is embedded into a spherical clamping groove, an opening is formed in the top of the spherical clamping groove, the diameter or width of the opening is smaller than the diameter of the spherical part, and the bottom of the spherical clamping groove is fixedly connected to the outer wall of a pipe or the top of a pipe clamp device. The adjustable pipe hanging bracket is flexible and adjustable in connecting mode, good in vibration resistant effect and suitable for the ship pipe, meanwhile, the hanging bracket assembly based on the hanging bracket discloses a pipe clamp structure matched with the hanging bracket, and the hanging bracket assembly has the advantages of further suppressing the pipe vibration noise and being convenient to install and use.

The invention relates to a water surface floater recovery ship, comprising a ship body and a recovery system, wherein the recovery system comprises a recovery device, a storage device and a second hydraulic mechanism; the recovery device comprises a bearing frame, a recovery cabin, a recovery conveyance belt, a first driving device for driving the recovery conveyance belt and a first hydraulic driving mechanism for adjusting the height and angle between the recovery cabin and the water surface; the bearing frame, the recovery cabin, the recovery conveyance belt, the first driving device and the first hydraulic driving mechanism are fixedly arranged on the deck of a stem; the storage device comprises a storage cabin, a storage conveyance belt and a second driving device which are movably arranged on the ship body along a direction from ship head to ship tail of the ship body; the front end part of the storage cabin can be connected with the rear end part of the recovery cabin; the rear end part of the storage cabin extends out of a stern; the second driving device can be used for driving the storage conveyance belt to operate horizontally backwards and horizontally forwards; and the second hydraulic mechanism is used for driving the storage device to move. The water surface floater recovery ship has the characteristics of simple structure, large storage capacity and high unloading operation efficiency.

A pile driving barge comprises a barge body, buoyancy adjusting devices are arranged at four corners of the barge body respectively, an upper scanner and a lower scanner for scanning vertical piles are arranged on the barge body, and GPS signal receivers are arranged at two different positions of the barge body; anchor machines for anchoring at least four different positions are arranged on the barge body; a pile frame is rotationally arranged on the barge body; the barge body is provided with an automatic pile frame lying device; a piling guide rail is arranged on the pile frame; a pile hammer is movably arranged on the pile driving guide rail; a first brake device for limiting the position of the pile hammer on the pile driving guide rail is arranged on the pile hammer, a transition roller is arranged on the upper portion of the pile frame, the upper portion of the pile hammer is connected with a winch arranged on the barge body through a steel wire rope, and a second brake device for braking by braking a winch roller to control the steel wire rope to pull the pile hammer is arranged on the barge body; and a pile cap is arranged on the pile hammer, a pile gripper for gripping thevertical pile is arranged on the lower portion of the pile frame. The invention further discloses a posture adjusting method, a positioning control method and a pile driving method of the pile driving barge.

A portable marine lift capable of multi-directional off-loading of yachts, ships, and other marine vessels at ground level to dry-dock them. It is compact and barge-like, and can be shared by independent shipyards, or used to expand the work area within a single port facility or shipyard. It is also self-contained when fitted with generators and / or propulsion means via add-on pods, and comprises independent platform sections joined together to meet any hull design, length and water depth. Platform sections have the ability to submerge, and may also be employed to capture and temporarily contain environmentally hazardous materials commonly produced by shipyards. In addition, the platform sections are preferably open-framed for weight savings. Computerized lifting, via multiple lift modules secured to platform sections, assures lifting of vessels in substantially level orientation. Optionally, platform sections can be configured for shallow water operation, with locking devices, and / or guides usable for off-loading railway alignment.

An electrical generation system. A floating vessel is anchored in flowing water. Inlets in the hull of the vessel capture flowing water and direct the water to one or more turbines. The system is designed so that all flows are two-dimensional to the extent possible. The latter feature greatly simplifies both design and construction.

A buoyantly moveable, self-elevating (jack-up) artificial work island or platform self-assembled while floating upon a work body of water by reversibly coupling together a plurality of independently buoyant modular hull components (20, 30), each of which is relatively narrow beam and capable of navigation through relatively narrow waterways. After self-assembly, the work platform is self-elevating upon a plurality of legs (51, 52, 53) to a desired distance above the work body of water. The work platform may be buoyantly moved to subsequent work locations as a unit, or separated into modular hull components each of which may be buoyantly moved separately to the subsequent locations. The work platform may further have a drilling derrick, a hoist, drilling fluid pumps, a rotary table and other equipment associated with earthboring for oil and gas installed thereon. The work platform may be elevated above the water surface a sufficient distance to accomodate operational conditions. In one embodiment, additional internal pilings are driven through the legs into the water bottom to provide additional support.

A self-retracting step assembly is attached to a swimming platform provided on the rear of the hull of a boat. The self-retracting step assembly includes a ladder comprising a series of telescoping tubes which enable its extension and retraction. The step assembly including the ladder assembly are attached to the swimming platform in a position in which the ladder is capable of extending into the water wherein the watercraft or boat floats. The telescoping ladder assembly can be extended and placed from a normally horizontal position into an inclined position wherein at least the last step of the ladder reaches the water. The energy for extending the ladder is supplied by a human user. The step assembly includes a motor or mechanical means for storing the energy used for extending the ladder. The ladder assembly is locked into the extended and inclined position by an improved mechanism that is located within the assembly attached to the swimming platform. Retraction of the ladder assembly is triggered by a change in the angle of the ladder relative to the water, said change being triggered by force of the water relative to the ladder when the watercraft or boat moves. The energy utilized for the retraction is preferably the stored energy of the extension, or it can be supplied by a motor.

Disclosed is a device for mounting a tank in a ship (1). Said device comprises at least two foundations (4) which are fastened to the hull at a distance from each other in the longitudinal or transversal direction of the ship (1) and each of which supports one saddle (6) that is adapted to the shape of the tank (3) and is used for accommodating the tank (3). The inventive device further comprises an insulating layer (8) that is provided on each saddle (6) to thermally insulate the foundations (4) relative to the tank (3) as well as safety mechanisms (10; 12; 15) for mounting the tank (3) on the foundations (4), said safety mechanisms (10; 12; 15) allowing a relative movement between the tank (3) and at least one foundation (4) on the insulating layer (8) in the longitudinal direction of the tank. Each saddle (6) is fastened directly to the tank (3) and has a planar bottom face (7) while each foundation (4) has a planar top face (5), all bottom and top faces (7; 5) being parallel to one another. The insulating layer (8) is disposed between the bottom face (7) of the saddle (6) and the top face (5) of the associated foundation (4) while the safety mechanisms (10; 12; 15) allow a limited relative movement between each saddle (6) and the foundation (4) thereof on or in the insulating layer (8).

The present invention describes a composition of thermosetting resins, in particular epoxy resins, combined with modified polysiloxane networks to form a continuos interpenetrated network characterized by the presence of metals such as boron, molybdenum and tungsten, linked to Si via an oxygen atom. These compositions, can be used to make adhesives, composites and coatings that exhibit excellent hardness, chemical resistance, fast curing, damp tolerance and are self priming with slow release of a corrosion inhibitor or of functional additives. The material of the present invention can be used in particular as a coating, in the marine field, for yachts and for large metal vessels, such as oil tankers and more in particular for cargo or ballast tanks and on hulls. It can be used for the maintenance and protection of trains, automotive vehicles and in electric applications such as for the production of dielectric shields and in those fields where high performance is needed.

The invention relates to the technical field of observation control, and discloses an unmanned observation control ship and an unmanned observation control system. The unmanned observation control ship comprises a ship body, a central control board and an underwater topographic survey sensor are arranged in the ship body, the ship body is connected with a propelling structure which is arranged outside the ship body, so that volume of the ship body is reduced, the structure is simple, water cooling can be conducted directly, and cost is reduced greatly; a threefold pattern is adopted to the ship body, a plurality of capsule bodies are arranged on the ship body, and the periphery of the ship body is provided with an anti-collision strip, so that sailing stability is improved, and device maintenance is facilitated; an attitude sensor is arranged in the observation control ship, the attitude sensor can output a pitch angle, a roll angle and a course angle, and the attitude sensor can also output the acceleration information in the X direction, in the Y direction and in the Z direction, so that measurement accuracy is greatly improved; a camera and an ultrasonic barrier measurement element are arranged on the ship body, so that peripheral environment can be filmed and barriers outside the periphery of the observation control ship can be measured at any time, and unmanned ship sailing is facilitated; the unmanned ship can directly communicate with an external mobile terminal and a ground control base by the adoption of a wireless communication element.

A top tensioned riser extends substantially vertically from a platform hull to the seabottom. The riser includes length adjustment at its upper end and is detachably connected to an anchor pile at its lower end. Riser tension is monitored via load cells incorporated in the riser porch. The riser is connected to one or more import / export flowlines or pipelines.