AUTONOMOUS WATERCRAFT RACE COURSE SYSTEM
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230339577A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-26

    申请号:US17917465

    申请日:2021-10-08

    申请人: ROBOBUOY INC.

    摘要: An autonomous watercraft race course system using automated buoys, sensors, and a race course application for autonomously setting up, starting, conducting, and scoring a race. The race can be any type of race conducted on or near water. In a preferred embodiment the race is a sailing race, however, it is within the scope of this invention for the race to include races for power boats, personal water craft (i.e., jet ski), waterskiing, wake boarding or surfing and over water aircraft races.

    AMPHIBIOUS UNMANNED PATROL VEHICLE CAPABLE OF REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION

    公开(公告)号:US20230211854A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-06

    申请号:US17967350

    申请日:2022-10-17

    摘要: The amphibious unmanned patrol vehicle includes a buoy, a waterproof cable and a submersible amphibious vehicle. An end of the waterproof cable is connected to a first controller of the buoy; and another end thereof is connected to a second controller of the submersible amphibious vehicle. A bottom end of the buoy is connected to a top end of the submersible amphibious vehicle which is configured to realize movement and operation of a whole system. The waterproof cable is configured to connect the submersible amphibious vehicle, and the buoy configured to ensure real-time communication between the submersible amphibious vehicle and an external environment during operation of the submersible amphibious vehicle. A height difference between an upper surface and a lower surface of the automatic reeling and unreeling cable device is equal to a thickness of the waterproof cable. The length of the waterproof cable is adjusted automatically in real time.

    Inertial hydrodynamic pump and wave engine

    公开(公告)号:US11680554B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-20

    申请号:US17861156

    申请日:2022-07-08

    摘要: A buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that can float on a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. The pump incorporates an open-bottomed tube with a constriction. The tube partially encloses a substantial volume of water with which the tube's constriction interacts, creating and/or amplifying oscillations therein in response to wave action. Wave-driven oscillations result in periodic upward ejections of portions of the water inside the tube that can be collected in a reservoir that is at least partially positioned above the mean water level of the body of water, or pressurized by compressed air or gas, or both. Water within such a reservoir may return to the body of water via a turbine, thereby generating electrical power (making the device a wave engine), or else the device's pumping action can be used for other purposes such as water circulation, propulsion, or cloud seeding.

    INERTIAL HYDRODYNAMIC PUMP AND WAVE ENGINE

    公开(公告)号:US20220341387A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-27

    申请号:US17861156

    申请日:2022-07-08

    摘要: A buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that can float on a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. The pump incorporates an open-bottomed tube with a constriction. The tube partially encloses a substantial volume of water with which the tube's constriction interacts, creating and/or amplifying oscillations therein in response to wave action. Wave-driven oscillations result in periodic upward ejections of portions of the water inside the tube that can be collected in a reservoir that is at least partially positioned above the mean water level of the body of water, or pressurized by compressed air or gas, or both. Water within such a reservoir may return to the body of water via a turbine, thereby generating electrical power (making the device a wave engine), or else the device's pumping action can be used for other purposes such as water circulation, propulsion, or cloud seeding.

    INERTIAL HYDRODYNAMIC PUMP AND WAVE ENGINE

    公开(公告)号:US20220170440A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-02

    申请号:US17674316

    申请日:2022-02-17

    摘要: A buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that can float on a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. The pump incorporates an open-bottomed tube with a constriction. The tube partially encloses a substantial volume of water with which the tube's constriction interacts, creating and/or amplifying oscillations therein in response to wave action. Wave-driven oscillations result in periodic upward ejections of portions of the water inside the tube that can be collected in a reservoir that is at least partially positioned above the mean water level of the body of water, or pressurized by compressed air or gas, or both. Water within such a reservoir may return to the body of water via a turbine, thereby generating electrical power (making the device a wave engine), or else the device's pumping action can be used for other purposes such as water circulation, propulsion, or cloud seeding.

    AN IMPROVED DEVICE FOR CONVERSION OF MECHANICAL ENERGY FROM SEA WAVES TO ELECTRIC ENERGY

    公开(公告)号:US20200080534A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-12

    申请号:US15745078

    申请日:2016-08-03

    申请人: ENSEA S.R.L.

    IPC分类号: F03B13/14 H02K7/18 B63B22/18

    摘要: Device for converting mechanical energy from sea waves into electric energy including at least a float and two rigid rods. The rods are preferably anchored to the seabed at one end, and to the float at another end. There are also two ballasts that effect their weight towards the sea bed to keep the free ends of the rods constantly in traction and free to rotate around their hinges. The float oscillates up and down along a vertical line due to waves. There are at least two cables that connect the free ends of the rods to a transmission shaft of a generator positioned along the vertical line so that the vertical, horizontal, or rotary oscillatory motion of the float caused by the waves generates an oscillatory motion of the rods which are pivoted on their respective hinges, and thus transfers rotary motion to the transmission shaft of the generator.

    Connection system for array cables of disconnectable offshore energy devices

    公开(公告)号:US10421524B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-24

    申请号:US14924448

    申请日:2015-10-27

    摘要: A floating connector of an offshore energy device and a method for connecting the floating connector is provided. The floating connector includes a buoy having a long spar like floater, where the buoy provides buoyancy to the floating connector. The floating connector further includes at least two cables for connecting to the offshore energy device. The floating connector also includes a joint box for coupling to the offshore energy device and for providing an electrical connection of the at least two cables to a switchgear of the offshore energy device. When the joint box is coupled to the offshore energy device, an electrical circuit with the at least two cables is completed through the offshore energy device via the switchgear.