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公开(公告)号:US20240278881A1
公开(公告)日:2024-08-22
申请号:US18652652
申请日:2024-05-01
IPC分类号: B63B35/44 , B63B27/34 , C07C29/152
CPC分类号: B63B35/44 , B63B27/34 , C07C29/152 , B63B2035/4486
摘要: Embodiments disclosed herein include a vessel for floating and traveling adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water. In an embodiment, the vessel comprises a support structure, a first floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, a second floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, the second floatation chamber laterally spaced apart from and fluidly coupled to the first floatation chamber, and a third floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, the third floatation chamber laterally spaced apart from the first floatation chamber and from the second floatation chamber. In an embodiment, the vessel further comprises a robot system coupled to the support structure, where the robot system comprises an end effector and a nozzle head coupled to the end effector.
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公开(公告)号:US20240300622A1
公开(公告)日:2024-09-12
申请号:US18594655
申请日:2024-03-04
CPC分类号: B63B27/34 , B63B22/26 , F03B13/264
摘要: Methods and systems are provided for transient fluidic coupling via reversibly couplable conduits. In one example, a method includes directing a conduit assembly to a receiving port by releasing one or more fluid streams from the conduit assembly. The method may further include fluidly coupling an internal passage of the conduit assembly to the receiving port. The internal passage may extend from the conduit assembly and along a conduit between a pair of free-floating bodies, such as between a wave engine and a tanker ship, so as to exchange one or more fluids, such as an electrolysis reactant and an electrolysis product. The fluidic coupling may be reversible, in that the conduit assembly may be detached from the receiving port to sever the fluidic coupling. In certain examples, the detaching may be actuated by releasing one or more additional fluid streams from the conduit assembly.
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公开(公告)号:US20240278879A1
公开(公告)日:2024-08-22
申请号:US18438077
申请日:2024-02-09
IPC分类号: B63B35/44 , B63B27/34 , C07C29/152
CPC分类号: B63B35/44 , B63B27/34 , C07C29/152 , B63B2035/4486
摘要: Embodiments disclosed herein include a vessel for floating and traveling adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water. In an embodiment, the vessel comprises a support structure, a first floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, a second floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, the second floatation chamber laterally spaced apart from and fluidly coupled to the first floatation chamber, and a third floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, the third floatation chamber laterally spaced apart from the first floatation chamber and from the second floatation chamber. In an embodiment, the vessel further comprises a robot system coupled to the support structure, where the robot system comprises an end effector and a nozzle head coupled to the end effector.
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公开(公告)号:US20240309837A1
公开(公告)日:2024-09-19
申请号:US18597749
申请日:2024-03-06
CPC分类号: F03B13/142 , F04F7/00 , F05B2220/61
摘要: Embodiments include a buoyant wave energy converter. In an embodiment, the wave energy converter comprises an upper chamber having a first fluid reservoir and a first gas pocket, and a lower chamber having a second fluid reservoir and a second gas pocket. In an embodiment, an injection tube is between and fluidly coupled to the upper chamber and the lower chamber, where the injection tube is to impel a fluid from the second fluid reservoir into the first fluid reservoir when the upper chamber, the lower chamber and the injection tube oscillate about a waterline with the upper chamber adjacent to the waterline and the lower chamber submerged below the waterline and vertically beneath the upper chamber. An effluent tube is fluidly coupled to the upper chamber and the lower chamber, where the effluent tube is to return the fluid from the first fluid reservoir to the injection tube.
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公开(公告)号:US20220316437A1
公开(公告)日:2022-10-06
申请号:US17642214
申请日:2020-10-06
IPC分类号: F03B13/06
摘要: Disclosed is an apparatus that adapts the rate of its computational work to match the availability of energy harvested from a stochastic energy source; and, with respect to some types of energy harvesting, regulates the rate of energy capture, the rate of energy conversion, and the rate of consumption of stored potential energy, through its alteration, regulation, and/or adjustment, of that same computational work load.
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公开(公告)号:US20240278880A1
公开(公告)日:2024-08-22
申请号:US18652647
申请日:2024-05-01
IPC分类号: B63B35/44 , B63B27/34 , C07C29/152
CPC分类号: B63B35/44 , B63B27/34 , C07C29/152 , B63B2035/4486
摘要: Embodiments disclosed herein include a vessel for floating and traveling adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water. In an embodiment, the vessel comprises a support structure, a first floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, a second floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, the second floatation chamber laterally spaced apart from and fluidly coupled to the first floatation chamber, and a third floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, the third floatation chamber laterally spaced apart from the first floatation chamber and from the second floatation chamber. In an embodiment, the vessel further comprises a robot system coupled to the support structure, where the robot system comprises an end effector and a nozzle head coupled to the end effector.
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公开(公告)号:US20240240604A1
公开(公告)日:2024-07-18
申请号:US18412198
申请日:2024-01-12
CPC分类号: F03B13/142 , F03B13/22 , F05B2240/93
摘要: Embodiments disclosed herein include a buoyant wave energy converter. In an embodiment, the wave energy converter comprises an upper chamber having a first fluid reservoir and a first gas pocket, and a lower chamber having a second fluid reservoir and a second gas pocket. In an embodiment, an injection tube is between and fluidly coupled to the upper chamber and the lower chamber, where the injection tube is to impel a fluid from the second fluid reservoir into the first fluid reservoir when the upper chamber, the lower chamber and the injection tube oscillate about a waterline with the upper chamber adjacent to the waterline and the lower chamber submerged below the waterline and vertically beneath the upper chamber. In an embodiment, an effluent tube is fluidly coupled to the upper chamber and the lower chamber, where the effluent tube is to return the fluid from the first fluid reservoir to the second fluid reservoir.
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公开(公告)号:US20240101229A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-28
申请号:US17767423
申请日:2020-11-22
CPC分类号: B63B22/18 , B63B35/44 , F03B13/22 , B63B2035/4466
摘要: Disclosed is an autonomous vessel comprising a hydrodynamic pump that converts the energy of ocean waves into electrical power when the vessel is floating adjacent to an upper surface of an ocean, and utilizes a portion of the generated electrical power produced to charge an electrical energy storage device. The vessel may submerge itself, and then propel itself beneath the water's surface, after which it may return to the surface and resume its production of electrical energy and recharge its electrical energy storage device.
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