Floating maritime vessel comprising a detachable measuring keel

    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.

    Floating structure for the deployment and the recovery of at least one autonomous watercraft by a vessel, corresponding method, corresponding system and corresponding vessel

    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

    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.

    Surface vessel with motorised mechanical propulsion having a fusiform hull and ballasted keel

    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.

    Cleat for mooring a watercraft, and mooring assembly having a cleat and a line having a stopper

    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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