公开(公告)号：US11338892B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-24

申请号：US16683521

申请日：2019-11-14

Applicant: Bell Textron Inc.

Inventor： Jeffrey Paul Nissen ,  Troy Cyril Schank ,  Peter Charles Robichaux ,  Jason Paul Hurst ,  Todd Christopher Worden

IPC: B63G8/00 ,  B63B35/50 ,  B64F1/28 ,  B63B35/00 ,  B64C29/00

Abstract: An exemplary autonomous seabased resupply system includes an unmanned blob positioned in a water body, the blob containing fuel, a pump on the blob configured to pump the fuel through a conduit to a craft, and a ballast system operable to change a vertical position of the blob in the water body.