Broad-Based Ship Simultaneous Aircraft Operations
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing aircraft carriers are inadequate for simultaneous landing and taking off of multiple aircraft and lack stability for comfortable operations, limiting their functionality and safety.
Innovation Solution
A broad-based ship design featuring multiple hulls, decks, and elevators, allowing for simultaneous landing and taking off of multiple aircraft, with a large flight deck and hangar space for aircraft storage and transportation between decks, enhancing stability and operational capacity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If existing aircraft carriers are used, then they can operate in water, but they cannot facilitate simultaneous landing and taking off of multiple aircraft
Solution Approach 1:
The aircraft carrier is divided into multiple decks including a flight deck, hangar deck, and intermediate deck, allowing simultaneous aircraft operations on different levels. The flight deck handles takeoffs and landings while the hangar deck stores and prepares aircraft, enabling multiple aircraft to be processed at the same time without interfering with each other.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces vertical dimension by stacking multiple decks one above another. Aircraft can be stored, prepared, and launched from different vertical levels simultaneously. Elevators and inclined planes provide vertical transport pathways, allowing the carrier to handle multiple aircraft in three-dimensional space rather than limited to a single horizontal surface.
2Stability of the object's composition
If existing aircraft carriers are used, then they can deploy in water, but they lack sufficient stability for comfortable landing and taking off of multiple aircraft
Solution Approach 1:
The carrier employs multiple hulls instead of a single hull, distributing the weight and operational loads across several buoyant structures. This segmentation of the floating platform enhances overall stability while supporting the complex multi-deck structure and multiple aircraft operations simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
By extending the carrier structure vertically with multiple decks stacked above the hulls, the design increases the moment of inertia about horizontal axes, improving roll stability. The vertical arrangement of decks and aircraft also distributes loads more effectively across the hull structure, enhancing overall structural stability during dynamic operations.
3Quantity of substance
If existing aircraft carriers are used, then they have limited aircraft boarding capacity, but increasing capacity complicates the carrier structure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent utilizes vertical space by constructing multiple decks stacked above the waterline. The flight deck at the top level handles active aircraft operations, while intermediate and hangar decks below store additional aircraft. This vertical stacking allows the carrier to board and operate many more aircraft than a single-deck design, effectively increasing capacity by transitioning from two-dimensional to three-dimensional utilization of space.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple elevators and inclined planes are installed to provide versatile aircraft transport pathways between different decks. These multi-functional systems can handle various aircraft types and operational scenarios, allowing the carrier to efficiently manage large numbers of aircraft without requiring excessively complex specialized structures for each function.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables safe and efficient simultaneous landing and taking off of multiple aircraft, improving operational capacity and stability, even in turbulent conditions, by providing a spacious and steady platform for aircraft operations.
Implementation Method 1
the one or more hulls may be configured to be floatably disposable in at least one water body
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed herein is a broad-based ship that may be facilitated for landing and taking off of multiple aircraft, in accordance with some embodiments. Accordingly, the broad-based ship may include hulls, decks, and elevators. Further, the hulls may be configured to be floatably disposable in a water body. Further, the decks may be supported on the hulls. Further, the decks may include a flight deck and a lower deck. Further, the flight deck may include airstrips configured for allowing landing and taking off of aircraft on the airstrips simultaneously. Further, the elevators may be configured for transporting the aircraft between the lower deck and the flight deck simultaneously. Further, the transporting may include transferring the aircraft from the lower deck to the flight deck simultaneously. Further, the taking off of the aircraft simultaneously may be based on the transferring.