公开(公告)号：WO2022246505A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-01

申请号：PCT/AU2022/050497

申请日：2022-05-24

Applicant: UAM TEC PTY LTD

Inventor： TAYLOR, Shawn ,  NGUYEN, Khang ,  YOUSIF, Sarmad

IPC: B63B13/02 ,  B63G8/00 ,  B63G8/22 ,  B63B3/13

Abstract: The ballast tank (65) is a cylindrical pressure chamber (86) with an end cap (81) that has a central opening for receiving and connecting to the venting input (67) from the pump system (66) and the venting path (68) to the outlet (70) that vents with the outside environment to the submersible. The ballast tank includes a rubber bladder (85) within the solid pressure chamber (86) that is fed by a manifold (83) leading from the end cap (81) opening and feeds through spaced holes into the bladder at spaced distances. This ensures a constant pressure buildup or release of the whole bladder rather than distorted expansion or reduction. Generally, pumps are notorious for being strong in one direction but not in the other. Further there is substantial weight and size limitation in submersibles of the size of less than 5 metres. A novel solution to this problem is to use a one-way pump with a switching valve system. More particularly it is to use a diaphragm pump (71) in a one-way operation with a switching flow operation system. In this way the pump (71) provides pressure control on both sides of the pump and valve system (66) and operates as strongly with flow in one direction as with flow in the opposite direction.

公开(公告)号：WO2022246504A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-01

申请号：PCT/AU2022/050496

申请日：2022-05-24

Applicant: UAM TEC PTY LTD

Inventor： TAYLOR, Shawn ,  CUTRI, Alex ,  NGUYEN, Khang ,  YOUSIF, Sarmad ,  LE, Thanh

IPC: B63B3/13 ,  B63G8/00 ,  B63G8/38 ,  G05D1/04 ,  H04N5/04 ,  G01C13/00 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G05D1/02

Abstract: An underwater probe (11), comprises a submersible body having an elongated body with a hydrodynamic effective shape for travel in at least one longitudinal direction. There is a power system including two longitudinal side thrusters (21) for allowing the controllable driving of the submersible body in the at least one longitudinal direction and a top thruster (22) for allowing manoevering in a lateral plane to the longitudinal axis E-E. Also there is a visual image capture system including a plurality of optical cameras (31, 35) locatable on or at the surface of the elongated body. The probe is modular and has readily connectable and disconnectable modules that can be reconfigured to readily form differing volume and different payload ballast remotely controllable adjustable buoyant probes.