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公开(公告)号:US12097932B2
公开(公告)日:2024-09-24
申请号:US18119324
申请日:2023-03-09
申请人: John Dixon
发明人: John Dixon
CPC分类号: B63B1/38 , B63B59/04 , B63B2001/387
摘要: The present invention seeks to reduce the frictional resistance of a vessel through enhanced air lubrication by creating and sustaining a superaerophilic surface underneath the vessel. Air is supplied by two different means: through vents near the bow of the vessel and through the perforated superaerophilic surface underneath the vessel. The air delivered through the perforations in the superaerophilic surface prohibits wetting of microscopic structures on the surface, maintaining the superaerophilic properties of it. Since the superaerophilic surface attracts air close to the hull surface, this invention greatly increases the ratio of air from the bow vents within the boundary layer, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the air lubrication system. Aerophilic effects are enhanced by carbon, which is captured, filtered, and mixed in with the air supplied to the plastron.
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公开(公告)号:US20240166315A1
公开(公告)日:2024-05-23
申请号:US18551072
申请日:2022-03-23
申请人: Jotun A/S
发明人: Joana Costa , Andreas Krapp , Sergiu Paereli , Kjartan Tobias Boman , Seamus Michael Jackson , Manolis Levantis
CPC分类号: B63B59/04 , B63B59/08 , B63B79/10 , B63G8/001 , B63G2008/005
摘要: A computer implemented method of monitoring the cleanliness of an underwater surface of a stationary object. The method is performed on a computing device and comprises: retrieving environmental data from memory of the computing device, the environmental data associated with environment conditions of the stationary object; determining a fouling value indicative of a level of fouling that the surface is exposed to based on at least the environmental data; determining a fouling protection value defining a tolerance to fouling associated with a surface of the stationary object; and identifying a level of risk of fouling on the surface of the stationary object by determining a fouling risk value using the fouling protection value and the fouling value.
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公开(公告)号:US20240166305A1
公开(公告)日:2024-05-23
申请号:US18119324
申请日:2023-03-09
申请人: John Dixon
发明人: John Dixon
CPC分类号: B63B1/38 , B63B59/04 , B63B2001/387
摘要: The present invention seeks to reduce the frictional resistance of a vessel through enhanced air lubrication by creating and sustaining a superaerophilic surface underneath the vessel. Air is supplied by two different means: through vents near the bow of the vessel and through the perforated superaerophilic surface underneath the vessel. The air delivered through the perforations in the superaerophilic surface prohibits wetting of microscopic structures on the surface, maintaining the superaerophilic properties of it. Since the superaerophilic surface attracts air close to the hull surface, this invention greatly increases the ratio of air from the bow vents within the boundary layer, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the air lubrication system. Aerophilic effects are enhanced by carbon, which is captured, filtered, and mixed in with the air supplied to the plastron.
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公开(公告)号:US20240124108A1
公开(公告)日:2024-04-18
申请号:US18276917
申请日:2022-01-24
申请人: Universität Kassel
发明人: Thomas Schomberg , Florian Gerland
摘要: A movement device is for progressive movement on the surface of a body around which a fluid passes, such as a hull, a rotor blade, a rudder, a tubular body or the like. The movement device has a retaining system for adhesion of the movement device on the surface, a traction system for providing a course for the movement device on the surface, and a drive system for driving the movement of the movement device on the surface. The drive system has at least one flow element, around which flow can pass, for interaction with the fluid, such that, for the progressive movement of the movement device on the surface of the body around which the fluid passes, flow energy can be extracted from the fluid passing around it and can be used for driving the movement.
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公开(公告)号:US11939679B2
公开(公告)日:2024-03-26
申请号:US17262952
申请日:2020-08-12
发明人: Wenqing Shi , Fenju An , Jiang Huang , Yuping Xie , Zhanxia Wu , Zhigang Liang , Jinming Zhan , Jinyu Huang , Yi Ba
IPC分类号: C23C24/10 , B23K26/082 , B23K26/342 , B23K26/352 , B23K103/04 , B63B59/04 , B23K103/06
CPC分类号: C23C24/106 , B23K26/082 , B23K26/342 , B23K26/355 , B23K26/3576 , B63B59/04 , B23K2103/04 , B23K2103/06
摘要: The invention discloses a method for preparing an anticorrosive surface layer of a metal material in a marine environment by laser, which belongs to the technical field of laser processing. First, the laser cladding method is used to prepare a cladding surface layer on the surface of the metal material that is not easy to undergo chemical substitution reaction with the chlorides (NaCl, MgCl2 , CaCl2 etc.) in the seawater. Then, on the surface of the cladding surface layer, ultrafast laser processing is used to form a surface layer with a wetting angle (and water) greater than 90 degrees and with hydrophobic characteristics.
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公开(公告)号:US11858014B2
公开(公告)日:2024-01-02
申请号:US18104668
申请日:2023-02-01
申请人: Isabela V. Perdomo
发明人: Isabela V. Perdomo
CPC分类号: B08B3/12 , B06B1/0276 , B63B59/08 , B06B2201/74 , B63B59/04
摘要: The method and system uses ultrasound (US) transducers in contact with an inboard surface underwater portions of marine vessels or structures. By first digitally generating disruptive, multi-frequency, interfering US waveform signals (complex waveforms, typically replicating a Bessel function) and then converting the signals into analog, the transducers generate disruptive, multi-frequency, interfering US waveforms through the underwater portions of the marine vessels and structures which waveforms disrupt unwanted marine growth on the water-side of the vessel or structure. The digital signals, and also the analog signals, are complex waveform signals, typically produced with a Bessel function. The US transducers are either circular membrane transducers or surface transducers. A computer processor coupled to a memory, generates the complex waveform signals fed to the US transducers.
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公开(公告)号:US20230391428A1
公开(公告)日:2023-12-07
申请号:US18034691
申请日:2021-11-01
申请人: MARINE PRO AS
发明人: Trond STENSLET , Erling ERIKSEN
CPC分类号: B63B59/045 , B32B7/09 , B32B7/12 , B32B3/08 , B32B9/02 , B32B9/045 , B32B2262/065 , B32B2307/7145
摘要: An anti-fouling protective cover (10) configured to abut against a boat hull (1) below the sea surface (3) for fouling-reducing protection of the boat hull, comprising a main sheet (10b). It may comprise one or more cover foils (10a) configured to be separated from the antifouling protective cover (10).
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公开(公告)号:US11833554B2
公开(公告)日:2023-12-05
申请号:US17980185
申请日:2022-11-03
CPC分类号: B08B3/12 , B06B1/0618 , B08B17/02 , B63B59/04 , E02B17/0026 , E02D31/06 , B06B2201/74
摘要: Systems and methods for the ultrasonic disruption of biofilm and algae growth on underwater structures utilize an ultrasonic actuator that produces a natural frequency in the ultrasonic range. In some embodiments, the ultrasonic actuator includes one or more piezoelectric transducers.
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公开(公告)号:US11685487B2
公开(公告)日:2023-06-27
申请号:US17537978
申请日:2021-11-30
摘要: An ultrasonic system for treating a submerged surface of a target structure, the system including: an ultrasonic generator for generating electrical energy to drive first and second ultrasonic transducers, the electrical energy including at least two different frequencies including a first and second operation frequency; first ultrasonic transducers configured to be mounted as a first array to the target structure, and connectable to the ultrasonic generator and operable to generate a first ultrasound signal from the first operation frequency; and second ultrasonic transducers configured to be mounted as a second array to the target structure, and connectable to the ultrasonic generator and operable to generate a second ultrasound signal from the second operation frequency, wherein the first and second ultrasonic transducers are spaceable from one another to produce guided ultrasonic waveforms through the target structure including heterodyned frequencies from the first ultrasound signal and the second ultrasound signal.
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公开(公告)号:US11500145B2
公开(公告)日:2022-11-15
申请号:US16631474
申请日:2018-07-18
摘要: An antifouling layer stack comprising a first layer element, a silicone layer, and a second layer element. The silicone layer is a light guide for UV radiation, and may include embedded UV light sources. The first layer element is situated on a first surface of the silicone layer, and the second layer element is situated on a second surface of the silicone layer. The first and second layer elements differ in composition from the silicone layer. The first layer element facilitates transmission of the UV radiation from the silicone layer to an external medium, and may provide protection and improve the structural integrity of the stack. The second layer element may also provide protection and structural integrity. The second layer element may be reflective, and may provide an adhesive surface for attaching the stack to a vessel.
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