Buoyant Swivel Floating Structure for Stable Mooring in Flowing Water
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional floating structures have complex assembly and installation structures, leading to high maintenance and replacement costs due to numerous components, and are not suitable for flowing water environments.
Innovation Solution
A swivel-type floating structure using buoyancy, comprising a buoyant plate and link bars that rotate with respect to ground brackets, allowing stable mooring and lifting in response to water level changes, simplifying assembly and reducing component complexity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If conventional floating structures use multiple guide piles, outer pipes, sliding rollers, and guide bushes to prevent tilting and enable parallel lifting, then the lifting stability is improved, but the device complexity and maintenance cost increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes the complex assembly of guide piles, outer pipes, sliding rollers, and guide bushes from the conventional floating structure. By eliminating these multiple components, the invention achieves a simplified structure that maintains lifting stability through the swivel mechanism alone, directly resolving the contradiction between lifting stability and device complexity
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of using fixed guide piles that constrain the floating body to move in a straight line, the invention inverts the approach by using swivel joints that allow the link bars to rotate and adapt to water level changes. This inversion transforms the constraint-based guidance system into a flexible, adaptive mooring system that simplifies the overall structure while maintaining stability
2Reliability
If conventional floating structures use numerous components such as guide piles, outer pipes, sliding rollers, and guide bushes, then the lifting guidance is improved, but the ease of repair and replacement deteriorates due to high maintenance costs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the numerous components (guide piles, outer pipes, sliding rollers, guide bushes) that require maintenance and replacement. By extracting these parts, the invention eliminates the associated maintenance costs and repair complexity, while the swivel mechanism provides sufficient lifting guidance reliability
Solution Approach 2:
The invention replaces the expensive, complex assembly of durable but hard-to-maintain components with a simpler swivel mechanism that is easier and more cost-effective to repair or replace, improving the ease of repair while maintaining adequate reliability
3Ease of operation
If drifting type floating structures are used without fixing means, then the ease of operation is improved, but the adaptability to flowing water environments deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by introducing swivel joints that allow the link bars to rotate and adapt to water level changes in flowing water environments. This dynamic capability enables the structure to maintain ease of operation while adapting to the varying conditions of flowing water, resolving the contradiction between operational simplicity and environmental adaptability
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The structure provides stable mooring and lifting capabilities while minimizing maintenance costs and enabling operation in flowing water environments.
Implementation Method 1
a buoyant plate configured to have a buoyancy to float on a surface of water
Data Source
AI summary
A swivel-type floating structure using buoyancy is provided. The structure includes a buoyant plate configured to have a buoyancy to float on a surface of water; one or more first link bars configured to have one end rotatably assembled to at least one first plate bracket fixed to both sides of the buoyant plate by means of a pin, and the other end rotatably assembled to a first ground bracket fixed to a ground adjacent to the buoyant plate by means of another pin; and one or more second link bars configured to have one end rotatably assembled to at least one second plate bracket fixed to a first end of the buoyant plate by means of a pin, and the other end rotatably assembled to a second ground bracket fixed to a ground adjacent to the first ground bracket by means of another pin.