SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING SOUND WAVES
    5.
    发明公开
    SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING SOUND WAVES 审中-公开
    系统声音波的产生

    公开(公告)号:EP3030355A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-06-15

    申请号:EP14761390.5

    申请日:2014-08-11

    发明人: HARDIE, David

    IPC分类号: B06B1/06

    摘要: A system for producing sound waves in a medium, the system comprising: at least two first free-flooded ring transducers (100) centred about a first axis, the first free-flooded ring transducers (100) being substantially cylindrical and having an axial gap of height g therebetween such that they form a first column; and at least one cylindrical body (500a, 500b) centred about the first axis nested in the first column, such that the cylindrical body is aligned with the axial gap. The cylindrical body may be a tweeter free-flooded ring transducer. This provides for improved wideband performance in a free flooded ring array.

    COMMUNICATION BUOY AND METHOD OF DEPLOYMENT
    6.
    发明公开
    COMMUNICATION BUOY AND METHOD OF DEPLOYMENT 审中-公开
    通信浮标及其使用方法

    公开(公告)号:EP2744704A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-06-25

    申请号:EP12753563.1

    申请日:2012-08-07

    IPC分类号: B63B22/00 B63B22/18

    CPC分类号: B63B22/18 B63B22/003

    摘要: A communication buoy launched from an underwater craft or installation comprising remote radio communications in a surface module and acoustic communications in a submergible module, wherein the entire hermetically sealed buoy ascends to the surface after launch under its own positive buoyancy, deploys flotation means at the surface, then separates the modules wherein the submergible module partially floods, becomes negatively buoyant and descends to a predetermined depth on an umbilical communication cable that connects the modules together. The sonobuoy may be launched from a submarine with its centre of mass above its centre of buoyancy so that it rights itself after launch until the centre of mass is below the centre of buoyancy during ascent. A control means may trigger deployment of a flotation bag with an antenna after a predetermined time. The module separation may occur after a second predetermined time or once a GPS fix is achieved using the antenna. A drogue, spool, and cable damping may prevent the modules uncoupling after the submergible module descends. A ring transducer may be used for transmitting and receiving acoustic communications.

    UNDERWATER COMMUNICATIONS
    7.
    发明公开
    UNDERWATER COMMUNICATIONS 审中-公开
    水下通信

    公开(公告)号:EP2198539A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-06-23

    申请号:EP08788408.6

    申请日:2008-08-26

    IPC分类号: H04B11/00 G01S3/808

    CPC分类号: H04B11/00 G01S3/8083

    摘要: A method of underwater communication between a link initiator and a link receptor, by transmitting a link acquisition waveform from the initiator to the receptor, and establishing communications channel parameters from such a received waveform. Data is then transmitted according to these parameters, which may include range, direction, frequency band and Doppler, with greater efficiency and robustness.