Method and apparatus for unloading cargo in an offshore marine environment

    公开(公告)号:US11492080B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-08

    申请号:US17003152

    申请日:2020-08-26

    申请人: Jon Khachaturian

    发明人: Jon Khachaturian

    摘要: A method of unloading cargo at sea from a cargo vessel to a cargo barge, comprising the steps of providing a catamaran vessel having a pair of spaced apart catamaran hulls and a pair of spaced apart arch shaped frames, each frame attached to each hull at a frame lower end portion; positioning the cargo vessel in between the hulls and under the top portion of the frames; placing one or more cargo barges next to one or both of the hulls, wherein the hull is in between the cargo vessel and the cargo barge; and unloading cargo from the cargo vessel to the cargo barge wherein the cargo travels from the cargo vessel, over the catamaran hull to the cargo barge.

    Gas Supply Refueling Facility
    2.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220298003A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-22

    申请号:US17805495

    申请日:2022-06-06

    摘要: A gas supply marine vessel and a refueling facility are described. The gas supply marine vessel includes a hull with an upper deck having an elongated cargo cavity formed therein. Gas interface modules are disposed in the cavity and extend between hull sides, each module having a plurality of fuel vessel docking stations. A plurality of stacked fuel container assemblies are fluidically coupled to the docking stations. A gantry, is movable along the length of the cavity, straddles the cargo cavity between hull sides. An articulating crane is mounted on the gantry and it utilized to move fuel container assemblies to a fuel container depression formed in the deck of a floating refueling facility. The floating refueling facility includes a concave side to facilitate mooring adjacent a shoreline, the concave side forming angled extensions at corners of the deck with a linkspan extending from each of the angled extensions.

    METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PREDICTING VESSEL BOW MOTION

    公开(公告)号:US20210129952A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-06

    申请号:US17255256

    申请日:2019-06-24

    IPC分类号: B63B79/15 B63B27/00 B63B79/30

    摘要: A method for the use in offshore crew transfer when transferring a person between a crew transfer vessel and a structure or vice versa where a prediction system for predicting vessel bow motion in response to sea waves detected by said wave detection device is used. An indicator is adapted to indicate a prediction of vessel bow motion below a first bow motion threshold value within a first predetermined time period based on said prediction system. The transfer of the person only takes place when said vessel bow motion is indicated to be below the first vessel bow motion threshold value within the first predetermined time period.

    Guide track systems for automated material handling, shipping, storage and parking facilities

    公开(公告)号:US10829303B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-10

    申请号:US16176944

    申请日:2018-10-31

    摘要: An overhead guide track system for automated material handling and storage facilities wherein at least one transfer unit is suspended from carriages that travel along the track system, and wherein the track system includes a plurality of first and second inverted “T” beams being assembled in an X-Y manner such that the first and second support beams intersect with one another in perpendicular relationship and wherein each of the first and second inverted “T” beams includes horizontal flanges connected to a central vertical web, and wherein at least one end of a plurality of the vertical webs of the first and second inverted “T” beams are connected to vertically oriented pedestals at a plurality of intersections of the first and second inverted “T” beams and which pedestals have transfer plates over which the carriages pass and through open gaps between the horizontal flanges at the intersections and the transfer plates.

    Motion control device for an articulated fluid-loading arm, acquisition and calculation method and device therefor, and articulated fluid loading arm

    公开(公告)号:US10822223B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-03

    申请号:US16304266

    申请日:2017-05-24

    申请人: FMC Technologies

    摘要: Device for controlling the movement of one of the ends of an articulated fluid loading arm from a storage position to a target pipe (35) and from this target pipe (35) to the storage position, said arm comprising a fluid transfer line equipped at this end with a coupling system (26), the latter being adapted to be coupled to the target pipe (35) for the transfer of the fluid, which device comprises actuators (27-29) for controlling the movement of the arm in space from the storage position until the coupling system (26) is positioned in front of the target pipe (35) for its coupling to the latter, and from the target pipe (35) to the storage position. This device includes calculation means (41) adapted for: —monitoring in real time the movement of the coupling system (26); —generating, in real time, from the last determined position of the coupling system (26) a trajectory of movement of the coupling system (26) in the direction of the target pipe (35) or the storage position, based on a dynamic jerk-limited motion law; —calculating command instructions to be given to each of the actuators (27-29) in order to control the movement of the coupling system (26) based on this motion law.

    SHIP HAVING ANTI-SINKING AND ANTI-CAPSIZE DEVICE FOR EMERGENCY

    公开(公告)号:US20190112014A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-18

    申请号:US16092024

    申请日:2017-04-28

    申请人: Chongchul KIM

    发明人: Chongchul KIM

    摘要: According to the present invention, there is provided a ship having an anti-sinking and anti-capsize device for emergency, which, in an emergency situation that may be caused by load or loss of buoyancy attributable to flooding, can continuously maintain the state of floating on the water by generating buoyancy inside and below a lower hull, and can prevent the ship from being tilted to one side or being completely capsized by maintaining the balance of the ship, thereby preventing a deadly accident that may occur in an emergency, such as a ship sinking accident, and also facilitating rescue operations.

    Launch apparatus and vehicle
    8.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10259549B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-16

    申请号:US15502874

    申请日:2015-06-26

    发明人: Detlef Lambertus

    摘要: The invention relates to a launch apparatus for an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle—in particular, for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle or for a Remotely Operated Vehicle—with a launching tube having an inner wall and an outlet, and the Unmanned Underwater Vehicle contained within the launching tube, whereby the Unmanned Underwater Vehicle has a vehicle casing with a vehicle casing inhomogeneity, such that an ejection of the Unmanned Underwater Vehicle causes different contact loads between the vehicle casing and the inner wall, whereby the Unmanned Underwater Vehicle has a detachable compensating form, which is designed in such a way that the vehicle inhomogeneity is compensated, such that the result is a combination of the Unmanned Underwater Vehicle and the detachable compensating form, the combination whereof, when ejected, causes a substantially more uniform contact load to occur between the combination and the inner wall.

    Open water transport system
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10220916B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-05

    申请号:US15623152

    申请日:2017-06-14

    摘要: An open water transport system for payloads and a method for transporting payloads. The system includes two sponsons substantially parallel to the other. The sponsons are spaced apart from each other and extending in a forward direction. A deck plate module is detachably mounted on top of each sponson. A superstructure may be detachably mounted to the deck plate modules. The superstructure may bear a weight of one or more payloads. The carriage assembly couples to the payload(s). The carriage assembly has an adjustment mechanism that permits an operator to redistribute the weight of a payload. The open water transport system is towed by another vehicle.

    Device for transferring persons
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10118675B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-06

    申请号:US15038384

    申请日:2014-11-20

    申请人: REFLEX MARINE LTD

    摘要: The invention provides a transfer device (1) comprising, a seating assembly, floatation means (5) and a primary lifting point (6). The seating assembly comprises a base (2), a central bearing structure (3) and a plurality of seats (4). The primary lifting point (6) is suitable for receiving a main line. The central bearing structure (3) comprises a suspension system, for providing suspension and damping to said central bearing structure (3).