Submersible Stern Platform Openings for Compact Recreational Use
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing submersible stern platforms on vessels lack recreational features such as openings with gates, backrest elements, and supportive bottoms, and often occupy valuable space or require complex assembly and concealment systems.
Innovation Solution
A submersible stern platform with a main opening and secondary openings, equipped with manually or automatically operable gates and backrest elements, which can form open, partially open, or closed reservoirs, and include movable or removable bottoms with hydromassage, heating, and other leisure features, using various actuation methods.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If submersible stern platforms are equipped with recreational features such as openings with gates, backrest elements, and reservoirs, then recreational functionality and versatility are improved, but device complexity and assembly difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The platform is divided into modular components including removable bottoms, detachable backrest elements, and separable gate structures. These segmented parts can be independently assembled and disassembled, reducing overall assembly complexity while maintaining versatile recreational functionality when combined
Solution Approach 2:
The platform structure is designed to serve multiple functions: it can form swimming pools, seating areas, and recreational spaces using the same basic platform, gate, and bottom components. This multi-functionality approach avoids the need for entirely separate structures for each recreational feature
2Adaptability or versatility
If submersible stern platforms include openings with gates and backrest elements, then recreational versatility is improved, but space occupation on the vessel increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gate structures are designed to nest within recesses in the platform when not in use, and backrest elements can be stored within the platform structure or attached to gates. This nesting approach allows recreational features to be compact when not deployed, minimizing space occupation on the vessel
Solution Approach 2:
The platform utilizes the vessel's existing space dynamically by submerging into the water, effectively using the water volume as part of the recreational space rather than occupying additional deck space. The structure can be raised or lowered as needed
3Adaptability or versatility
If submersible stern platforms are equipped with complex moving and concealing systems, then recreational functionality is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Complex automated moving and concealing systems are removed from the design. Instead, simple manual operations are used: gates are manually positioned, bottoms are simply removed or placed, and backrests are easily attached or stored. This extraction of complex systems dramatically improves ease of operation while maintaining recreation features
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to a submersible stern platform (100) equipped with openings for recreation, comprising an opening (150), one or more secondary openings (160) preferably arranged along the vicinity of the opening (150), the opening (150) being reversibly closed by a gate (151) and the secondary openings (160) being reversibly closed by one or more secondary gates (161).