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公开(公告)号:US11697478B2
公开(公告)日:2023-07-11
申请号:US17050588
申请日:2019-04-26
Applicant: IXBLUE
Inventor: Sébastien Grall
CPC classification number: B63C7/16 , B63B27/00 , B63B41/00 , B63G8/001 , B63B2027/165 , B63G2008/004 , B63G2008/007 , B63G2008/008 , B66C13/02 , B66C23/52
Abstract: A system for deploying and recovering an autonomous underwater device (AUD) using a surface carrier ship, includes, in addition to the carrier ship, a subaquatic vehicle (SV) guided by a connection wire connected to the carrier ship, the SV able to be positioned in a storage configuration wherein the SV is fixedly but removably joined to the carrier ship in a storage zone, or in a configuration for use, in which the SV, separated from the carrier ship, is in the water and at a distance from the carrier ship while remaining connected by the connection wire, the SV including propulsion, guiding and stabilizing systems and a station for receiving the AUD allowing it to be removably attached to the SV, the receiving station and the AUD including a complementary automated docking unit allowing the AUD to automatically dock with the receiving station during recovery and attach itself thereto.
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公开(公告)号:US11079552B2
公开(公告)日:2021-08-03
申请号:US16770418
申请日:2018-12-05
Applicant: IXBLUE
Inventor: Hervé Arditty , Sébastien Grall , Jonathan Laporte , Christian Giroussens , Gildas Touin , Frédéric Mosca , Eric Delort , Carole Chaize
Abstract: An optical connector (20) includes a plurality of collimation elements (23a, 23b) which are associated with a plurality of optical fibres (21a, 21b), respectively, and which are carried by a support (24). The support is mounted for rotation in a bearing (27) about a rotation axis (z), the collimation elements (23a) are arranged in the support so as to be equidistant from this rotation axis, and the support has at least one member for angular positioning (28) about the axis. The invention also relates to an optical connection assembly (10) including a first such optical connector and a second optical connector (20′) which is configured to be nested coaxially with the first one. An electrical connector may be provided with such an optical connector, and a connection system may be provided with such an electrical connector.
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公开(公告)号:US11349253B2
公开(公告)日:2022-05-31
申请号:US16770197
申请日:2018-12-05
Applicant: IXBLUE
Inventor: Hervé Arditty , Sébastien Grall , Jonathan Laporte , Christian Giroussens , Gildas Touin , Frédéric Mosca , Eric Delort , Carole Chaize
IPC: H01R13/523 , H01R13/533 , H01R43/26 , H02G1/10
Abstract: A method for connecting a movable connector part to a stationary connector part, the movable part being initially placed on a support and the stationary part being covered by a cap. The method includes gripping the cap by element of a lifting tool (10); depositing the cap (6) on the movable part by element of the lifting tool; and transporting the assembly of the cap and movable part onto the stationary part, by element of the lifting tool, in order to connect the stationary part and the movable part (4) to each other.
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公开(公告)号:US11319037B2
公开(公告)日:2022-05-03
申请号:US16768758
申请日:2018-11-30
Applicant: IXBLUE
Inventor: Sébastien Grall
Abstract: The invention relates to a floating maritime vessel including at least one hull beneath a deck, the hull extending between a bow and a stern in a longitudinal direction of the vessel, the vessel including, on its lower part, a removable keel and, on its upper part, a conning tower erected above the deck, the keel being able to be descended below the hull and raised back through the hull, the keel including a lower end and an upper end, the upper end of the keel connecting to the hull when the keel is in its lowered position. According to the invention, the conning tower contains a keel-storage space and the keel and the keel-storage space of the conning tower are aligned such that the keel can be raised by upward translation at least partly into the keel-storage space of the conning tower.
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公开(公告)号:US11673637B2
公开(公告)日:2023-06-13
申请号:US17268243
申请日:2019-08-12
Applicant: IXBLUE
Inventor: Sébastien Grall
CPC classification number: B63G8/42 , B63G8/001 , F03B13/10 , B63G2008/002 , F05B2220/706 , F05B2240/95 , F05B2240/97
Abstract: Disclosed is a system for underwater exploration using a submerged device towed by a surface vessel, the submerged device being connected to the vessel by a towing line and including equipment supplied by the electricity, characterized in that the submerged device includes at least one device for the local production of electrical energy, the device being an electric hydrogenerator and in that the towing line has no electrical supply cable connecting the vessel to the submerged device.
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公开(公告)号:US11192613B2
公开(公告)日:2021-12-07
申请号:US16761760
申请日:2018-11-08
Applicant: IXBLUE
Inventor: Sébastien Grall
IPC: B63B21/56
Abstract: Disclosed is a floating structure for an autonomous watercraft with a keel deployed and recovered on a vessel. The longitudinally elongate structure includes a floating port-side and starboard lateral edges and a submersible bottom submerged when the structure is in the water, the lateral edges and the bottom defining an interior space at least partly submerged when the floating structure is in the water, the lateral edges defining a prow at the front and, at the rear, an opening towards the rear of the floating structure, which opening is downwardly limited by the submersible bottom with at least one longitudinally elongate slot open towards the rear for the passage of the keel, and the floating structure is configured in order that at least the front portion of the autonomous watercraft including the keel can engage by floating inside the interior space, with the keel engaging in the slot.
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公开(公告)号:US11110995B2
公开(公告)日:2021-09-07
申请号:US16607957
申请日:2018-04-24
Applicant: IXBLUE
Inventor: Sébastien Grall
Abstract: Disclosed is a surface vessel with motorised mechanical propulsion including a fusiform hull and a keel in the bottom part of the hull, the hull having an elongate shape in a longitudinal direction of the vessel, the keel including, at the bottom end of same, a bulb linked to the hull by a linking part of the keel, the maximum width of the linking part being smaller than the maximum width of the bulb, the maximum length of the linking part being smaller than the maximum length of the bulb, the lengths and widths being considered respectively in the longitudinal direction of the vessel and a horizontal transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The hull has a total width to total length ratio of less than 0.2 and a maximum length of less than 20 metres.
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公开(公告)号:US12259077B2
公开(公告)日:2025-03-25
申请号:US17790387
申请日:2020-12-30
Applicant: IXBLUE
Inventor: Sébastien Grall , Pierre Lallemand , Frédéric Murier , Lionel Secco
Abstract: Disclosed is a device for the sealed passage of at least one longitudinal element through a through-hole provided in a partition, including—a frame capable of being permanently fastened in a sealed manner on the partition in order to delimit the hole,—a removable insert, of which at least a central portion is produced by moulding on the longitudinal element in order to produce a sealed connection with the latter, the removable insert being configured to be inserted in a removable and sealed manner in the frame.
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公开(公告)号:US12214846B2
公开(公告)日:2025-02-04
申请号:US17771942
申请日:2020-10-27
Applicant: IXBLUE
Inventor: Sébastien Grall
Abstract: A cleat for mooring a watercraft at a thrown end of a line has a base surmounted by a body, the base being fastenable to a watercraft deck, the line having a rope and stopper formed by a transverse protuberance, the cleat having an engagement part adjoining the base and a funnel-shaped through-opening to an elongate slot in the body, the slot having a height allowing the longitudinal progression and transverse passage of the rope from the opening towards the interior of the body, the slot leading into a chamber having a minimum dimension greater than the minimum slot height, the maximum dimension of the chamber being less than the dimension of the protuberance forming the stopper so the stopper of a line passing transversely through the body can be blocked against a the body side face both with the rope in the slot and in the chamber.
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公开(公告)号:US11489303B2
公开(公告)日:2022-11-01
申请号:US16770285
申请日:2018-12-05
Applicant: IXBLUE
Inventor: Carole Chaize , Gildas Touin , Frédéric Mosca , Eric Delort , Jonathan Laporte , Hervé Arditty , Sébastien Grall , Christian Giroussens
IPC: H01R39/18 , H01R13/523
Abstract: An electrical connector includes an electrically conductive contact element (122) and a support (70). The contact element (122) is supported by an intermediate element (120) made of an elastically deformable material and connected to the support (70). An electrical connection assembly including a connector of the type is also described.
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