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This invention relates to an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle hereinafter called “Mother UAV” member (11) capable of carrying modules of Sub Unmanned Aerial Vehicle members (12) hereinafter called “Sub UAV” member. More particularly, the method and system that is capable of communicating via satellite and remote control technology wherein ejecting said Sub UAV members (12) from the Mother UAV member (11) wherein Sub UAV members (12) autonomously fly in sequence in a coordinated manner with the Mother UAV member (11), and capable of engaging in multiple missions in high, medium, low altitude, and surface, also communication with under sea submarines (27). Further, comprises of a method and system that the Sub UAV members (12) are able to return back to the Mother UAV member (11) after the mission is completed and be firmly secured to the flatbed (14) of the Mother UAV member (11). The present invention is specifically designed for multifunctional and multipurpose applications where humans and other vehicles are unable to access, for civil, commercial and military purposes.

The invention relates to a crossed three-dimensional torpedo interception net capable of intercepting torpedoes, especially a torpedo interception net which can be projected or cast and can outspread automatically when entering into the water to form a decussate three-dimensional torpedo interception net. The appearance is column-shaped, a top cover is arranged at the top part and is fixed and sleeved by bayonet locks on the casing which is divided into four sections, the specific density of the top part is lighter than the seawater and the specific density of the bottom part is heavier than the seawater. A decussate bracket is arranged inside, a telescopic link is connected on the lateral side, and a suspended net is connected with the telescopic link via a hanger. When the torpedo interception net is projected or cast into sea via a surface ship, a submarine or a helicopter, the top cover is ejected via a spring, the casing is opened, a going barren dives the telescopic link to expand and the suspended net is dragged to outspread in horizontally. Under the upward pulling force of the telescopic link and the downward pulling force of the weight of the connector of the suspended net, the suspended net is outspreaded along vertical direction; a stabilization membrane connected with the inner side of the suspended net control the stability of the torpedo interception net along the vertical direction.

A combined submersible vessel and unmanned aerial vehicle preferably includes a body structure, at least one wing structure coupled to the body structure, at least one vertical stabilizer structure coupled to the body structure, and at least one horizontal stabilizer structure coupled to the body structure. A propulsion system is coupled to the body structure and is configured to propel the flying submarine in both airborne flight and underwater operation. Preferably, the propulsion system includes a motor, a gearbox coupled to the motor and configured to receive power generated by the motor and provide variable output power, a drive shaft coupled to the gearbox and configured to transfer the variable output power provided by the gearbox, and a propeller coupled to the drive shaft and configured to accept power transferred to it from the drive shaft. The propeller is further configured to rotate and propel the flying submarine in both an airborne environment and in an underwater environment.

Fire prevention and suppression systems and breathable fire-extinguishing compositions are provided for rooms, houses and buildings, transportation tunnels and vehicles, underground and underwater facilities, marine vessels, submarines, passenger and military aircraft, space stations and vehicles, military installations and vehicles, and all other human occupied objects and facilities. The system provides a breathable hypoxic fire-preventative atmosphere at standard atmospheric or local ambient pressure. The system employs an oxygen-extraction apparatus supplying oxygen-depleted air inside a human-occupied area or storing it in a high-pressure container for use in case of fire. A breathable fire-extinguishing composition is introduced for constant fire-preventive environments, being mostly a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen and having oxygen content ranging from 12% to 17%. A fire-suppression system is provided employing a fire-extinguishing composition with oxygen concentration under 16%, so when released it creates a breathable fire-suppressive atmosphere having oxygen concentration of approximately 16% (or lower if needed) with possible addition of carbon dioxide. A technology for automatically maintaining a breathable fire-preventive composition on board a human-occupied hermetic object is provided by introducing inert ballast that automatically maintains oxygen content under the Hypoxic Threshold. An aircraft fire prevention and suppression systems are provided utilizing hypoxic fire extinguishing compositions for producing breathable atmosphere onboard having fire-retarding properties.

Deployable submarine hydroelectric generator for conversion of kinetic energy of deep ocean currents into electricity by having an electric generator mounted in a sealed hydrodynamic, buoyant vessel with tail fins, and connected by a shaft to a rotary turbine blades at the tail end of the submarine vessel, which vessel is anchored at desired depth to the bottom of the ocean by a cable. The drag of the turbine blades causes the vessel to self-steer against the direction of the ocean current. An electric cable is also provided, connecting said electric generator with electric grid on the land. Such generator is out of sight, unlike windmills, and is environmentally friendly to the sea life, due to slow rotating blades. This clean electricity can also be used for production of low cost hydrogen by electrolysis of sea water.

The invention discloses a teleoperation unmanned submersible for detecting and disposing a submarine target, and is applied to the field of detecting and disposing technologies for submarine targets in the limpidity water area and the muddy water area. A power propulsion device of the teleoperation unmanned submersible comprises four screw propellers installed on a submersible body frame, wherein a cable interface and a signal interface are combined so as to form a photoelectric composite cable interface; underwater detection equipment comprises submersible front detection equipment and submersible lower detection equipment; a forward follow-up bright light searching lamp, a follow-up glimmer camera and an acoustic lens of a detection sonar are fixedly installed on a pitching rotation cradle head; the pitching rotation cradle head generates pitching rotation relative to the submersible body frame so as to adjust detection and viewing angles of the submersible front detection equipment fixed on the pitching rotation cradle head; and submersible position and attitude sensor group realize exact locating on positions and attitudes of an ROV (remotely-operated vehicle), thereby improving the service property of the unmanned submersible, and expanding the application area of the unmanned submersible.

A system and method decreases the transmission of structure-borne noise by cooling fans to electronic components and structurally integrated enclosures for the electronic components. The system has a machined isolation plate that fits onto a rear plate on the structurally integrated enclosure. The cooling fans are fitted onto the opposite side of the isolation plate. Fitted between the isolation plate and the rear plate, and / or the isolation plate and the cooling fans are soft elastomeric isolators. These isolators dampen and prevent the transmission of structure-borne noise from the cooling fans to the electronic components and the structurally integrated enclosure. This dampening is advantageous on platforms in which stealth is desired, such as on submarines.

A system and method are disclosed for computing a vehicle's motion in four dimensions (e.g., three spatial dimensions and time) and reliably predicting the vehicle's arrival time at a predetermined location, by providing a graphical display to an operator of the vehicle's progress that enables the operator to adjust the vehicle's movement and achieve the desired arrival time. Specifically, a system and method are disclosed for computing the movement of an aircraft in four dimensions, predicting its arrival time at a predetermined waypoint, and displaying (in a highly intuitive format) the aircraft's progress in achieving that desired arrival time. The pilot can then adjust the movement (e.g., speed) of the aircraft in accordance with the parameter(s) displayed, in order to achieve the desired arrival time. Thus, for example, numerous aircraft could be scheduled to arrive at a specific final approach waypoint at a predetermined rate (e.g., one aircraft per minute), which would enable the traffic controllers to optimize runway traffic without having to stack the aircraft in holding patterns and thereby waste fuel. Notably, although an example of an aircraft navigation and control system and method is disclosed, the system and method can be implemented for any type of vehicle (e.g., aircraft, spacecraft, ship, submarine, bus, train, automobile, etc.) whose operator desires to reach a particular location at a specified time.

Wave energy, converters are arranged as a plurality of coupled float members arranged in a two dimensional array. Link couplings between any float member and its neighbors drive a mechanical system to convert the disorganized motion due to heaving and bobbing of the float member on the ocean's surface into linear reciprocating motion in orthogonal directions. Such linear reciprocating motion is converted to electricity in an induction system having a mover and a stator—either being an inductor, the other being a magnet. The array is preferably provided to cover large surface areas whereby energy from incident ocean waves is appreciably absorbed at the float member an converted to mechanical motion. The array may be held to the ocean floor by a mooring or anchor system immediately offshore or up to a few tens of kilometers from the shoreline. Electricity provided at the array may be conveyed to shore via a submarine power transmission cable where it may be distributed and consumed on the public grid.

An electric power transmission cable includes at least one first section provided with cable armour made of a first metallic material, and at least one second section provided with a cable armour made of a second metallic material, wherein the second metallic material has ferromagnetic properties substantially lower than those of the first metallic material.

Fire prevention and suppression systems and breathable fire-extinguishing compositions are provided for rooms, houses and buildings, transportation tunnels and vehicles, underground and underwater facilities, marine vessels, submarines, passenger and military aircraft, space stations and vehicles, military installations and vehicles, and all other human occupied objects and facilities. The system provides a breathable hypoxic fire-preventative atmosphere at standard atmospheric or local ambient pressure. The system employs an oxygen-extraction apparatus supplying oxygen-depleted air inside a human-occupied area or storing it in a high-pressure container for use in case of fire. A breathable fire-extinguishing composition is introduced for constant fire-preventive environments, being mostly a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen and having oxygen content ranging from 12% to 17%. A fire-suppression system is provided employing a fire-extinguishing composition with oxygen concentration under 16%, so when released it creates a breathable fire-suppressive atmosphere having oxygen concentration of approximately 16% (or lower if needed) with possible addition of carbon dioxide. A technology for automatically maintaining a breathable fire-preventive composition on board a human-occupied hermetic object is provided by introducing inert ballast that automatically maintains oxygen content under the Hypoxic Threshold. An aircraft fire prevention and suppression systems are provided utilizing hypoxic fire extinguishing compositions for producing breathable atmosphere onboard having fire-retarding properties.

The present invention provides a method and a device for exploiting the submarine natural gas hydrate. The present invention transfers the natural gas hydrate on the submarine surface to a dredge and then to a large-volume container after being ground; a water pump is used to add sea water appropriately into the large-volume container. As the temperature of the sea water keeps about 20 DEG C, the temperature of the sea water makes the mixture of ground hydrate and sandstone fully decomposed in the large-volume container so as to separate the natural gas, water and sandstone. The separated natural gas is drained and then directly connected with a user terminal. The present invention with convenient operation and simple device can conveniently, economically and effectively achieve the exploitation of the submarine natural gas hydrate.

The wave powered (WP) propulsion systems developed in great amount for boats are not in use because of small effectiveness caused by rocking process reducing propellor stroke relatively water. Submarines and special quasi-dipped watercrafts deprived of this disadvantage. Their bodies keeps stable the propellors mounted on conning towers or special props owing to the body's great mass. This factor multiplies the WP propellor effectiveness meeting Navy and Merchant fleet requirements. The invention includes designs of: spare WP propulsion plant embedded into submarine diving rudders or folded into pockets of the submarine sail, quasi-dipped watercraft carrying multiple foil WP propulsion system, quasi-dipped tug towing submerged tank, self optimized foil propellor. Experiences with submarine models equipped by the WP propellers have shown excellent results. Expected velocities for submarine 4-7 knots, for the quasi-dipped watercraft 5-15 knots. The folded spare WP propulsion plant does not interrupt submarine functioning.

The invention discloses micro-alloying seamless pipeline steel and process for preparation. According to weight percentage, the range of the chemical components of the invention includes that C holds 0.08% to 0.20%, Si is equal to or less than 0.04%, Mn takes 0.60% to 1. 50%, S is equal to or less than 0.015%, P is equal to or less than 0.025%, Al is equal to or less than 0.04%, Ti is equal to or less than 0.04%, H is equal to or less than 2.5*10-4%, O is equal to or less than 25*10-4%, the rest is Fe and unavoidable foreign matters. The process for preparation comprises technique steps, including smelting, refining, continuous casting, hot rolling and slow cooling. Round steel with the size of phi 70 to 150 millimeters can be produced by the process for preparation. The seamless pipeline steel of the invention has perfect anti-sulphide stress corrosion (SSC resistance) capability and anti-HIC property. The pipeline steel which can substitute for welding pipe can be utilized in the filed of oil pipeline and the like, and the invention increases the reliability of material and adaptability of variety, in particular being adaptable for the low submarine temperature and corrosion-resistant environment and for manufacture of thick-walled tubes.

Provided is an anti-submarine vehicle seat device which can reliably prevent submarining without complicating the assembling of the seat assembly, and is adapted to be retrofitted. Major parts of the device are incorporated into a subassembly which comprises a casing adapted to be attached to a seat frame, a power actuator fixedly secured in the casing, an arm pivotally supported by the casing, and adapted to be actuated by the power actuator, and a lock mechanism for keeping the arm substantially at an actuated position once the arm is actuated by the power actuator.

The invention discloses a method for constructing a three-dimensional terrain vector model based on multi-beam sonar submarine measurement data, and relates to a method for constructing the three-dimensional vector terrain model with measurement data of multi-beam sonar, which solves the defect that a multi-beam ranging sensor can only provide discrete terrain elevation and can only query terrainparameters at a measurement point. The method is used for non-structural submarine terrain modeling and vector data retrieval. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring a horizontal coordinate of a sampling point of the terrain of a submarine area and corresponding elevation data; defining a data structure of a terrain triangular net model according to characteristics of multi-beam sonar terrain measurement data; and finally, establishing a Delaunay triangular net vector model according to elevation data of each point of the multi-beam sonar terrain measurement and the data structure of a Delaunay triangular net.

The invention relates to a penetration type multifunctional submarine sediment in-situ observation probe rod, including a static sounding probe, a resistivity measuring module, a deformation measuring tube and a control cabin which are connected in sequence from bottom to top. The resistivity measuring module includes a resistivity measuring module main body, and point electrodes are distributed at equal intervals on the outer circumferential surface of the resistivity measuring module main body. The deformation measuring tube is of a tubular structure, includes a deformation rubber tube and embedded pore water pressure sensors inside the deformation rubber tube, eight stress and strain measuring optical fibers are distributed at equal intervals along an axial direction on the outer wall of the deformation rubber tube, a row of water drainage holes are distributed along the axial direction, and each water drainage hole is connected with an embedded pore water pressure sensor. The penetration type multifunctional submarine sediment in-situ observation probe rod provided by the invention can realize CPTU detection and can also perform long-term in-situ observation, and add dynamic change process observation of pore water pressure and sediment deformation of different depths; and deformation observation and pore pressure observation are effectively combined, and taking static sounding data for reference, and a dynamic change process mechanism of seabed sediments are interpreted from different angles.

This invention relates to a microclimate human body cooling system and a refrigerating system thereof. The cooling system comprises a refrigerating system, a control system and liquid cooling clothes; the refrigerating system of the cooling system is a micro steam compressed type refrigerating system, comprising a housing and a condenser, a water tank, a filter, a compressor and an evaporator which are assembled in the housing and are in sealed connection through a connecting pipe; the refrigerating fluid circularly flows therein. A micro refrigerating system is added in the system so that the low-temperature water cycles in the liquid cooling clothes to bring away the heat of the human body; the system is featured with fast starting, little volume without preparing ice blocks in advance; the system is extremely portable and is specially suitable for the thermal protection of passengers in a tank, a helicopter, a fighter, a submarine / naval craft, a racing car, a military car, an ambulance, etc.

The invention discloses a submarine AGV movement transferring robot. An AGV body comprises an AGV driving assembly, a vehicle body framework, an auxiliary wheel, a control system module, a back panel and an operation panel. The AGV driving assembly is arranged on the lower middle portion of the vehicle body framework, the motor polarization and chain transmission mode is adopted in the AGV driving assembly, driving wheels are down to the ground, the two sides of the driving wheels are respectively provided with a magnetic navigation sensor, an RFID card reader for detecting ground magnetic card road signs is arranged right below the AGV body, the two bottoms in front of the AGV body are respectively provided with two suspended auxiliary wheels, a safety collision avoidance strip and an infrared obstacle avoidance detection module, and an automatic lifting hauling mechanism and the magnetic navigation sensors are installed on the vehicle body framework. The submarine AGV movement transferring robot has the advantages of being safe, reliable, low in cost, high in integration of internal functional modules, capable of meeting various using requirements and high in universality.

This invention relates to a system and method for reducing the primary vortex wake structure generated by a lifting body mounted on an object moving through a fluid. This is achieved by first, altering the generated initial vortex wake to make it vulnerable to rapid breakup; and, second, producing disturbances to this wake with secondary vortices from auxiliary lifting surfaces, called vortex leveraging tabs, to instigate this breakup. This invention relates to various fields of uses to include vortices generated by any type of lifting body moving through a fluid to include aircraft and watercraft, such as surface vessels and submarines.

The invention discloses an oceanic mineral resource exploitation device and exploitation method and aims to overcome the technological difficulty of the existing submarine mining vehicle and the pipeline waterpower lifting exploitation system. The exploitation device comprises a water surface mining vessel, a lifting pipe, a lifting electric pump station, a hose, a mineral crushing mechanism and a mining mechanism, wherein a plurality of perturbance jet flow nozzles, a plurality of ascending jet flow nozzles and a flow guide pipe are mounted on the mining mechanism; the flow guide pipe is communicated with the feeding hole of the mineral crushing mechanism; the lifting pipe, the lifting electric pump station, the hose and the mineral crushing mechanism are sequentially connected with the flow guide pipe in series to form an ore pulp lifting passage; the hose is fixed onto an ROV; the ROV is connected with the mining mechanism through a connecting device. The oceanic mineral resource exploitation device is not limited by the complicated terrain and gradient at the bottom of the sea, avoids the slipping and sinking of the underpan of the submarine mining vehicle on a settled layer, greatly reduces the disturbance of mineral mining to bottom sediments, and also solves the problem that the terrain clearance of the mining mechanism is difficult to control.

Method of cyclic anchoring itinerant (CAI) propulsion uses a phenomenon of anchored float horizontal motion as wave rises. The method repeats a cycle: Detaching the anchor from an immobile medium as a wave begins descent; Accelerating it in new position as the wave descends; Reattaching it to said medium as a wave rises. The medium can be railway or water. Respectively a trolley or a glider works as the anchor. To drag as anchor the glider orients perpendicular to the link. Improvements: adding an auxiliary propeller accelerating the glider, connecting bow and aft gliders with a single boom, making it telescopic, adding a small submarine hull for permanent observation water space, scientific researches, entertainment. The method allows to reequip watercrafts to all-weather, ocean going watercrafts with an unlimited range of operation. These solutions can be widely used in marine rescue remedies. Experimental models of CAI propulsion system show remarkable results.

An apparatus, method and associated fiber-laser architectures for high-power pulsed operation and pumping wavelength-conversion devices. Some embodiments generate blue laser light by frequency quadrupling infrared (IR) light from Tm-doped gain fiber using non-linear wavelength conversion. Some embodiments use a fiber MOPA configuration to amplify a seed signal from a semiconductor laser or ring fiber laser. Some embodiments use the frequency-quadrupled blue light for underwater communications, imaging, and / or object and anomaly detection. Some embodiments amplitude modulate the IR seed signal to encode communication data sent to or from a submarine once the modulated light has its wavelength quartered. Other embodiments transmit blue-light pulses in a scanned pattern and detect scattered light to measure distances to objects in a raster-scanned underwater volume, which in turn are used to generate a data structure representing a three-dimensional rendition of the underwater scene being imaged for viewing by a person or for other software analysis.

A method and apparatus is disclosed wherein nanostructures or microstructures are disposed on a surface of a body (such as a submersible vehicle) that is adapted to move through a fluid, such as water. The nanostructures or microstructures are disposed on the surface in a way such that the contact between the surface and the fluid is reduced and, correspondingly, the friction between the surface and the fluid is reduced. In an illustrative embodiment, the surface is a surface on a submarine or other submersible vehicle (such as a torpedo). Illustratively, electrowetting principles are used to cause the fluid to at least partially penetrate the nanostructures or microstructures on the surface of the body in order to selectively create greater friction in a desired location of the surface. Such penetration may be used, for example, to create drag that alters the direction or speed of travel of the body.

The invention discloses a submarine shallow layer natural gas hydrate pilot hole pull-back jet break-up exploitation method and exploitation device, and belongs to the technical field of submarine hydrate exploitation. The exploitation method mainly comprises the following steps that a water insulation pipe is lowered to the position adjacent to a hydrate deposit, turn drilling is conducted in thehydrate deposit by means of mechanical or jet-flow drilling, and a pilot hole with a certain inclined angle is formed; after drilling reaches a preset position, a continuous pipe and an exploitationcrushing system are pulled back, meanwhile the surrounding hydrate ore body is crushed by means of a spray head jet flow, hydrate particles formed are collected into a closed pipeline with seawater, silt in the crushed particles is separated out by means of an in-pipe downhole separator, curing agent is added, then the particles are backfilled to a gob in situ, and the hydrate particles after separation are pumped to the sea surface for treatment together with the seawater. By means of the exploitation method and the exploitation device, efficient, safe and sustainable exploitation of the submarine shallow layer natural gas hydrate is achieved, the exploitation efficiency is ensured, and meanwhile a potential safety problem is effectively avoided.

The present invention provides a power distribution system that can be used in naval ships and submarines. The power distribution system includes a first power generation system including at least one power source (13,14,15) for supplying power to a first service distribution system. The first service distribution system includes at least one dc distribution busbar (25) for carrying a distribution voltage and a distribution current and at least one switchboard (16) that includes protective switchgear with contacts. A zonal power distribution sub-system is also provided and includes a zonal power supply unit (23) for supplying power to at least one electrical load and a zonal energy store (22) connected to the at least one switchboard (16) of the first service distribution system for supplying power to the zonal power supply unit (23). The at least one power source (13,14,15) is regulated according to a power source foldback and stabilising characteristic and a power source starting characteristic. The at least one electrical load is regulated according to a load shedding and stabilising characteristic.

A submarine cold water pipe water intake system of an ocean thermal energy conversion power plant is installed at a cold water inlet of a power boat, and the cold water pipe includes: a water intake head; a water intake pipe formed by connecting composite pipes in a series, and each composite pipe is formed by arranging a plurality of wavy inner pipes sequentially into a tubular shape; a connecting pipe formed by engaging an outer pipe and an inner pipe, and an inner pipe of the connecting pipe being connected to the cold water inlet of the power boat, and an end of the outer pipe of the connecting pipe is connected to a connecting portion of the water intake pipe.

A device having the form of a cylindrical spiral cavity and / or incorporating a helicoidal slot, making it possible to reduce induced drag and marginal swirl (vortex) and increase drag / lift ratio. Integrated with the wingtip or articulated on the wingtip, it can be adapted for all airfoils, in particular the wings of airplanes and gliders, helicopter blades and the tips or tractor or pusher airscrews, wind-powered generator blades and for surface vessels or submarines where lift or direction is used in triple axis (vertical, horizontal, and yaw) displacement. Used in a reverse configuration (undersurface / upper surface) on high speed land vehicles or racing cars, this device, when secured to the tip of each wing, produces a result inversely proportional to speed. The faster the vehicle is traveling, the less drag it generates and greater its ground adhesion.