公开(公告)号：US12162578B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-10

申请号：US17869106

申请日：2022-07-20

Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.

Inventor： Mathieu P. Kemp ,  Christopher M. Romano

IPC: B63G8/22 ,  B63G8/24

Abstract: Techniques and architectures are disclosed for a system capable of creating large changes in buoyancy that can be incorporated into underwater vehicles, embodiments of the system utilizing edge-welded, metal bellows disposed within a pressure vessel to balance a pressure differential across the bellows while using the bellows to displace fluid and thereby alter the buoyancy of a vehicle on which the system is disposed.

公开(公告)号：US20240025525A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-25

申请号：US17869106

申请日：2022-07-20

Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.

Inventor： Mathieu P. Kemp ,  Christopher M. Romano

IPC: B63G8/22 ,  B63G8/24

CPC classification number: B63G8/22 ,  B63G8/24

Abstract: Techniques and architectures are disclosed for a system capable of creating large changes in buoyancy that can be incorporated into underwater vehicles, embodiments of the system utilizing edge-welded, metal bellows disposed within a pressure vessel to balance a pressure differential across the bellows while using the bellows to displace fluid and thereby alter the buoyancy of a vehicle on which the system is disposed.