Double-shipping-space underwater ship body cleaning system
By integrating pump stations and cleaning robots, convenient transportation and efficient cleaning are achieved, solving the problems of inconvenient transportation and low cleaning efficiency in existing technologies, and improving the efficiency and flexibility of ship hull cleaning.
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Utility models(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2025-05-23
- Publication Date
- 2026-03-27
AI Technical Summary
In existing underwater hull cleaning systems, the pump station and cleaning robot are separated and difficult to transport, resulting in low cleaning efficiency. One pump station can only clean one side of the hull.
A dual-compartment underwater hull cleaning system was designed, integrating the pump station and cleaning robot for easy transportation and storage. The system is equipped with two cleaning robots that can clean both sides of the hull simultaneously.
It improves cleaning efficiency, simplifies transportation and warehousing processes, reduces transportation costs, and enhances the flexibility of using cleaning robots.
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Abstract
Description
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The utility model relates to ship body outer wall cleaning equipment, especially a double-bin underwater ship body cleaning system. BACKGROUND
[0002] After the ship body sails in the sea for a period of time, the bottom surface is attached to many aquatic organisms, which increases the resistance of the ship body sailing in the sea and increases the energy consumption during the ship body running.
[0003] Therefore, the corresponding underwater ship body cleaning system is needed to clean the bottom surface of the ship body. The existing underwater ship body cleaning system includes a pump station, a control system and a cleaning robot. The pump station is connected to the cleaning robot through a high-pressure hose to provide high-pressure water flow for the cleaning robot. The control system is connected to the cleaning robot through a cable to realize communication between the control system and the cleaning robot. The pump station and the control system are usually used as surface equipment, and the cleaning robot is used as underwater equipment.
[0004] This kind of underwater ship body cleaning system, such as the "underwater cleaning robot surface equipment system" disclosed in Chinese patent CN114919718A, includes a winding device, a control system, an umbilical cable, a tension control device and a pump station. In use, one cleaning robot is connected to the control system and the pump station.
[0005] The existing robot surface equipment system has the following problems: first, the pump station and the cleaning robot are separated from each other, which are equivalent to two independent components. In use, they need to be transported to the use site separately, which is not convenient for transportation. Second, one pump station only matches one cleaning robot, and one cleaning person can only clean one side of the ship body bottom at the same time, which is not efficient. UTILITY MODEL CONTENTS
[0006] The utility model aims to provide a cleaning robot and a pump station, which are arranged independently and are not convenient for transportation and storage.
[0007] To solve the above technical problems, the technical scheme of the double-bin underwater ship body cleaning system in the utility model is as follows:
[0008] The utility model provides a double position underwater hull cleaning system, including pump station and cleaning robot, pump station includes pump station support, water tank and water pump, pump station still includes the support board of setting up in the periphery of pump station support, water tank and water pump set up in the inboard of support board, the support board of pump station support one side is equipped with the installation mouth of support board, the robot warehouse door is hinged to the installation mouth, the inboard of robot warehouse door is provided with robot placement structure, and the cleaning robot is placed on the robot placement structure, and the warehouse door drive mechanism for driving robot warehouse door to overturn is arranged between pump station support and robot warehouse door, wherein at least one side's support board is also provided with the unwinding warehouse door that can open and close, the inboard of unwinding warehouse door is rotatably equipped with unwinding roller, and the cleaning water pipe for being connected with cleaning robot is wound on unwinding roller, the robot warehouse door has two, and two robot warehouse doors are arranged along the corresponding support board width direction interval, and the unwinding warehouse door has two, and two unwinding warehouse doors are arranged along the corresponding support board width direction interval.
[0009] Further, the robot placement structure includes a robot placement slot formed by a placement plate fixed to the inboard of the robot warehouse door, and a placement slot door capable of being opened and closed is arranged at the slot opening of the robot placement slot.
[0010] Further, the warehouse door drive mechanism includes a warehouse door drive cylinder arranged between the pump station support and the outboard of the robot warehouse door.
[0011] Further, the unwinding warehouse door and the robot warehouse door are located on the same side of the support plate of the pump station support.
[0012] Further, the unwinding roller is also wound with a cable for connecting with the cleaning robot.
[0013] The beneficial effects of the utility model are as follows: in the normal transportation process, the cleaning robot is fixed on the robot placement structure, and the robot warehouse door is in a closed state, which is equivalent to the cleaning robot being stored in the pump station, so that the pump station and the cleaning robot are integrated as a whole, facilitating transportation and storage. When in use, the robot warehouse door is opened, the two cleaning robots can be taken out, the cleaning water pipe is connected with the cleaning robot, and the two cleaning robots can clean the two sides of the hull bottom at the same time, improving the cleaning efficiency of the entire hull. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
[0014] The above and other objects, features and advantages of the disclosed example embodiments will become more apparent from the following detailed description, which proceeds with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the drawings, several embodiments of the disclosure are illustrated by way of example and not limitation, in which like or corresponding elements are identified with the same or corresponding reference numbers, in which:
[0015] Figure 1 is a structural schematic diagram of one embodiment of the double position underwater hull cleaning system in the utility model.
[0016] Figure 2 is Figure 1 a structure diagram of a cleaning robot;
[0017] 1, front buoyancy tube; 2, rear buoyancy tube; 3, left buoyancy tube; 4, right buoyancy tube; 5, left elbow pipe; 6, right elbow pipe; 7, handle; 8, driven wheel assembly; 9, walking wheel support; 10, left drive wheel assembly; 11, right drive wheel assembly; 12, left cleaning brush; 13, right cleaning brush; 14, cleaning brush support; 15, cable fixing seat; 16, drive wheel support; 17, placing plate; 18, warehouse door drive cylinder; 19, robot warehouse door; 20, placing groove door; 21, mounting port; 22, support plate; 23, unwinding warehouse door; 24, unwinding roller; 25, pump station support. DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0018] In order to facilitate the understanding of the present application, the present application will be described in more detail below in conjunction with the drawings and specific embodiments. The preferred embodiments of the present application are shown in the drawings. However, the present application can be implemented in many different forms, and is not limited to the embodiments described in the specification. On the contrary, the purpose of providing these embodiments is to make the disclosure of the present application more thorough and comprehensive.
[0019] It should be noted that, unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used in the specification have the same meaning as understood by those skilled in the art to which the present application belongs. The terms used in the specification of the present application are only for the purpose of describing specific embodiments and are not intended to limit the present application.
[0020] An embodiment of a double-warehouse underwater ship body cleaning system in the present application is shown in Figures 1-2 The pump station comprises a pump station support 25 and a water tank and a water pump arranged on the pump station support 25, and a control system is further arranged on the pump station support. The water tank, the water pump and the control system all belong to the prior art, and will not be described in detail here.
[0021] The pump station further comprises a support plate 22 arranged around the periphery of the pump station support, and the water tank and the water pump are arranged on the inner side of the support plate.
[0022] Two mounting ports 21 are formed on the support plate on the front side of the pump station support, and a robot warehouse door 19 is hingedly connected at each mounting port 21. A warehouse door drive mechanism is arranged between the pump station support 25 and the robot warehouse door for driving the robot warehouse door to flip over. In the present embodiment, the warehouse door drive mechanism comprises a warehouse door drive cylinder 18 arranged between the outer side of the pump station support and the robot warehouse door.
[0023] The inner side of the robot warehouse door is provided with a robot placing structure, the cleaning robot is placed on the robot placing structure, the robot placing structure comprises a robot placing groove surrounded by a placing plate 17 fixed to the inner side of the robot warehouse door, and a placing groove door 20 capable of being opened and closed is arranged at the groove opening of the robot placing groove, and the cleaning robot can be placed in the robot placing groove, and when the cleaning robot needs to be taken out, the placing groove door 20 is opened to take out the cleaning robot.
[0024] Two opening and closing unwinding warehouse doors 23 are further arranged on the support plate of the front side of the pump station support, each unwinding warehouse door 23 is located on the upper side of the corresponding mounting port, and a unwinding roller 24 extending along the left-right direction is rotatably arranged on the inner side of the unwinding warehouse door. The unwinding roller 24 is wound with a cleaning water pipe (not shown in the figure) used for connecting with the cleaning robot, and the unwinding roller is also wound with a cable (not shown in the figure) used for connecting with the cleaning robot. During transportation, the unwinding warehouse door 23 is in a closed state, and the robot warehouse door 19 is also in a closed state, at this time, the cleaning water pipe is not connected with the cleaning robot, and the cable is not connected with the cleaning robot, when the cleaning robot needs to work, the cleaning water pipe needs to be connected with the water pipe joint on the cleaning robot, and the cable is electrically connected with the cleaning robot, the pump station supplies water to the cleaning robot through the cleaning water pipe, the cleaning robot sprays high-pressure water to the bottom of the ship body to realize cleaning of the bottom of the ship body; the cable supplies power to the electrical element of the cleaning robot, and the control system controls the cleaning robot through the cable.
[0025] The cleaning robot comprises a device main body, a walking mechanism and a cleaning mechanism are arranged on the device main body, the device main body is composed of a hollow buoyancy pipe, the hollow buoyancy pipe in the embodiment is a thin-walled aluminum alloy pipe, the hollow buoyancy pipe comprises a front side buoyancy pipe 1, a rear side buoyancy pipe 2, a left side buoyancy pipe 3 and a right side buoyancy pipe 4 connected between the left and right ends of the front side buoyancy pipe 1 and the rear side buoyancy pipe 2, the lengths of the left side buoyancy pipe 3 and the right side buoyancy pipe 4 are longer than the lengths of the front side buoyancy pipe and the rear side buoyancy pipe, and the middle part of the hollow buoyancy pipe is a device space.
[0026] The front and rear ends of the left side buoyancy pipe are connected with the front side buoyancy pipe and the rear side buoyancy pipe through a left side elbow pipe 5, and the front and rear ends of the right side buoyancy pipe are connected with the front side buoyancy pipe and the rear side buoyancy pipe through a right side elbow pipe 6, and the upper ends of the left side elbow pipe and the right side elbow pipe are provided with handles 7. The handles can facilitate the lifting and placing of the equipment.
[0027] In the embodiment, the hollow buoyancy pipe of the device main body provides buoyancy for the entire equipment, and the hollow buoyancy pipe also serves as a mounting carrier of the walking mechanism and the cleaning mechanism.
[0028] The upper ends of the left buoyancy tube and the right buoyancy tube are provided with a walking wheel support 9 extending in the left-right direction, the walking mechanism comprises a driving wheel assembly arranged on the walking wheel support 9, and the walking mechanism further comprises a driven wheel assembly 8 arranged at the bottom of the front buoyancy tube.
[0029] In the embodiment, the driving wheel assembly comprises a left driving wheel assembly 10 and a right driving wheel assembly 11 arranged in the left-right direction, each of the left driving wheel assembly 10 and the right driving wheel assembly 11 comprises two driving wheels arranged in the left-right direction, and a driving wheel support 16 is arranged between the two driving wheels to mount the driving wheels, and the upper end of the driving wheel support 16 is connected to the walking wheel support 9. In the embodiment, the driving wheels are driven by driving wheel electric motors (or driving belt wheel hydraulic motors).
[0030] The cleaning mechanism comprises cleaning brushes and a robot water pipe, the robot water pipe is used to be connected to a cleaning water pipe, the cleaning brushes comprise left cleaning brushes 12 and right cleaning brushes 13 arranged in the left-right direction, the left ends of cleaning brush supports are fixed to the left buoyancy tube 3, the right ends of the cleaning brush supports are fixed to the right buoyancy tube 4, and the upper ends of the left cleaning brushes and the right cleaning brushes are rotatably arranged on the cleaning brush supports. The left cleaning brushes and the right cleaning brushes are driven by corresponding cleaning brush electric motors (or cleaning brush hydraulic motors).
[0031] The device main body, i.e. the hollow buoyancy tube, is further provided with a propeller support (not shown in the figure), the propeller support is provided with a propeller, the propeller is driven by an electric motor, when the propeller works, the propeller generates a force towards the corresponding ship body side wall direction, so that the device main body can be close to the ship body side wall, the driving wheels of the walking mechanism can always be in rolling contact with the ship body side wall, and the propeller belongs to the prior art and will not be described in detail here.
[0032] The rear buoyancy tube 2 is further fixed with a cable fixing seat 15, the cables connected to the driving wheel electric motors, the cables connected to the cleaning brush electric motors and the cables connected to the propeller are fixed to the cable fixing seat. In the above description, unless otherwise specified and limited, the terms "fixed", "mounted", "connected" or "connected" should be understood in a broad sense. For example, as to the term "connected", it can be fixed connection, detachable connection or integral; it can be mechanical connection, electrical connection; it can be direct connection, indirect connection through an intermediate medium, or internal communication or interaction between two elements. Therefore, unless otherwise specified in the specification, the skilled person can understand the specific meaning of the above terms in the utility model according to the specific circumstances.
[0033] The main difference between the double-position underwater ship body cleaning system and the prior art is that the cleaning robot can be accommodated in the inner side of the support plate of the pump station, and the pump station is used to realize the overall transportation and storage, thereby simplifying the transportation and storage process of the underwater ship body cleaning system; one pump station is matched with two cleaning robots, and the two cleaning robots can clean the two sides of the bottom of the ship body, thereby improving the cleaning efficiency.
[0034] The cleaning robot in the utility model is innovative compared with the prior art, and the device body is used as the mounting carrier of the walking mechanism and the cleaning mechanism, and also provides buoyancy for the whole device, that is, the buoyancy structure and the mounting carrier are designed in an integrated manner, the hollow buoyancy pipe is used to ensure the overall buoyancy of the device, the hollow buoyancy pipe is also used as the mounting carrier of the walking mechanism and the cleaning mechanism, the hollow buoyancy pipe of the metal structure can be recycled multiple times, the service and maintenance cycle of the underwater device is prolonged, and the cost of the marine engineering is reduced; the hollow buoyancy pipe is not easy to deform in an extreme environment (for example, in a deep water high pressure state), reliable buoyancy support is provided for the device, the traditional material (for example, foamed plastic) is prevented from being compressed and disabled, and the stability of the buoyancy in the underwater cleaning process is ensured; the circular aluminum alloy pipe is used to ensure the lightweight and the high strength of the ship body outer wall cleaning device, and the function of the buoyancy is also provided.
[0035] According to the above description of the present specification, those skilled in the art can also understand that the terms used as follows, such as "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "length", "width", "thickness", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "axial", "radial", "circumferential", "center", "longitudinal", "transverse", "clockwise" or "counterclockwise" and other terms indicating the orientation or positional relationship are based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings of the present specification, which are only for the purpose of facilitating the description of the scheme of the present utility model and simplifying the description, and are not explicitly or implicitly indicated that the devices or elements involved must have the specific orientation, be constructed and operated in the specific orientation, therefore, the above orientation or positional relationship terms cannot be understood or interpreted as a limitation on the scheme of the present utility model.
[0036] In addition, the terms "first" or "second" and the like used in the present specification are terms used to refer to numbers or ordinal numbers only for the purpose of description, and cannot be understood as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of the indicated technical features. Therefore, the features defined as "first" or "second" can explicitly or implicitly include at least one of the features. In the description of the present specification, the meaning of "plurality" is at least two, such as two, three or more, etc., unless otherwise specifically limited.
[0037] It should be finally pointed out that: the above examples are only used to illustrate the technical solutions of the utility model, and not to limit them; although the utility model has been explained in detail with reference to the foregoing examples, those skilled in the art should understand that: it can still modify the technical solutions recorded in the foregoing examples, or make equivalent replacement to part of the technical features; and these modifications or replacements do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions deviate from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the utility model.
Claims
1. A dual-station underwater hull cleaning system comprising a pump station and a cleaning robot, the pump station comprising a pump station support, a water tank and a water pump, characterized in that: The pump station further comprises a support plate arranged around the periphery of the pump station support, the water tank and the water pump are arranged inside the support plate, the support plate on one side of the pump station support is provided with a mounting opening, a robot door is hingedly connected at the mounting opening, an inner side of the robot door is provided with a robot placing structure, the cleaning robot is placed on the robot placing structure, a door driving mechanism for driving the robot door to overturn is arranged between the pump station support and the robot door, at least one side of the support plate is further provided with an unwinding door which can be opened and closed, an unwinding roller is rotatably arranged on an inner side of the unwinding door, a cleaning water pipe for connecting with the cleaning robot is wound on the unwinding roller, the robot door has two, the two robot doors are arranged along the corresponding support plate width direction, the unwinding door has two, the two unwinding doors are arranged along the corresponding support plate width direction.
2. The dual position underwater hull cleaning system of claim 1, wherein: The robot placing structure comprises a robot placing groove surrounded by a placing plate and fixed to the inner side of the robot door, and a placing groove door which can be opened and closed is arranged at a groove opening of the robot placing groove.
3. The dual position underwater hull cleaning system of claim 1, wherein: The door driving mechanism comprises a door driving cylinder arranged between the pump station support and the outer side of the robot door.
4. The dual position underwater hull cleaning system of claim 1, wherein: The unwinding door and the robot door are arranged on the same side of the support plate of the pump station support.
5. The dual position underwater hull cleaning system of any one of claims 1-4, wherein: The unwinding roller is further wound with a cable for connecting with the cleaning robot.
Citation Information
Patent Citations
Water surface equipment system of underwater cleaning robot
CN114919718A