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7534152 |
Underwater float release system
An underwater buoy release system having a moment arm release system. The moment arm release system has a magnetically attractive arm structure connected to a buoy. The buoy release system further...
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7264420 |
Floating overturn prevention device
A floating overturn prevention device includes a flat-top base and a pillar coupled to a bottom surface of the flat-top base and extending therefrom. The flat-top base is a floating body for...
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6971934 |
Autonomous liquid filled buoy
A buoy system includes a sea-bed pump station having separate reservoirs of lighter-than-water and heavier-than-water liquids. The reservoirs are in fluid communication with peristaltic pumps that...
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6836707 |
Methods and systems for determining heave and heave rate of vessels
A method for determining heave and heave rate for a vessel is described. The vessel includes an inertial navigation system (INS), and sensors for the INS being located at a point A of the vessel,...
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6739924 |
Remotely activated buoy
A remote controlled buoy includes a buoyant reel and an actuator. The buoyant reel includes connectivity for connecting the buoyant reel to the actuator. The actuator includes a releasing mechanism...
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6537118 |
Subsea buoy
A subsea buoy for use in maneuvering a submerged object, the buoy comprising a buoyant body, a first frangible link for securing said buoy to the object, means for rupturing said first frangible...
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6463800 |
Energy conserving moored buoyant ocean profiler
An energy conserving moored buoyant ocean profiler wherein an instrument carrying vertically traversing buoyant member of low buoyancy is interconnected with a second buoyant member of high...
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6422746 |
Method and device for a self orienting floating apparatus
The present invention relates to a method and device for a self orienting floating apparatus which utilizes an external magnetic field to maintain a constant orientation, and specifically relates...
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6309269 |
Variable buoyancy buoy for mooring mobile offshore drilling units
In a system for mooring offshore drilling units, a first mooring assembles installed at a first drilling venue, after which the mobile offshore drilling unit is moored by connection to the mooring...
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6183326 |
Communication buoy with ice penetrating capabilities
A deployable buoy having a nose cone and a tail section interconnected by a housing. The buoy comprises an outer shell and a canister with the outer shell axially moveable relative to the canister....
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6102758 |
Near shore spar communication platform
The Near Shore Spar Buoy Communication Platform is a semi-stable platform for data collection and retrieval for distances up to and over several miles offshore. It is an ocean-going computer housed...
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5735719 |
Combination inflatable dive flag and float
A combination inflatable dive flag and float that visually marks a position in a waterway where a diver is diving. The combination includes an inflatable, hollow, elongated, slender,...
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5624210 |
Collision tolerant pile structure
A support pile assembly for an aid to navigation that is to be placed in an area where it will be subject to repeated hits by boats and barges. In one configuration the assembly comprises a...
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5577942 |
Station keeping buoy system
The present invention relates to a buoy system capable of maintaining a b in a fixed position on the ocean or another body of water without the use of an anchoring device. The buoy system includes...
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5460556 |
Variable buoyancy buoy
A variable buoyancy buoy includes a shell and expansion apparatus. The two are combined in a manner to provide a watertight structure with an internal region wherein a constant pressure is...
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5308270 |
Ice penetrating buoy
A submarine-launched, ice-penetrating sonobuoy is disclosed. The buoy is pedo-shaped with a collapsible obturator tail-fin section removably attached at the tail-end, standard electronics in a...
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5291847 |
Autonomous propulsion within a volume of fluid
Energy is collected from temperature differentials in a volume of fluid and the energy is used for autonomous propulsion in the fluid.
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5256093 |
Marking buoy with shock cord
A lightweight plastic buoy with an elastic shock cord (31) attached to the nylon line (30) and lead weight (32). Included in the buoy is a plastic spool (21) attached to a metal shaft and crank...
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5224074 |
Sonobuoy for forming virtual vertical sensing arrays
A sonobuoy for forming a plurality of virtual vertical arrays, the sonobuoy aving means for receiving and expelling water to cause said sonobuoy automatically to descend and rise in a water...
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H001051 |
Antenna stabilizing buoy
A surface floating buoy has an antenna attached to a linkage system which pivots about the floating buoy. The linkage system is attached to a counterweight such that the antenna is maintained at a...
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5073136 |
Collapsible sonobuoy floatation device
A surface unit for a sonobuoy or similar device is disclosed and includes a variable volume sealed chamber and an arrangement including a pressurized carbon dioxide cartridge within the sealed...
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4943051 |
Human energy transmission device
A propulsion and exercise device transmitting human energy from both the upper and lower body simultaneously. A frame (20) contains a rotatable upwardly extending mast (30) to which a foot engaging...
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4850915 |
Apparatus for deploying and supporting a large aperture volumetric array in a medium
An apparatus for supporting a large volumetric array of acoustic sensors in water is packaged in a standard configuration sonobuoy envelope and utilizes conventional sonobuoy deployment components....
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4808133 |
Marker buoy with self retracting line
An anchor locating buoy system is provided with a self-retracting anchor line. The buoy system automatically collects and stores any excess portion of line between a marker float and an anchor...
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4780863 |
Removable power supply for an ocean bottom seismometer
An apparatus for supplying the power requirements of an Ocean Bottom Seismometer is disclosed wherein the power supply is separate from the power consuming devices of an Ocean Bottom Seismometer...
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4768984 |
Buoy having minimal motion characteristics
The present invention provides a service buoy for performing direct wireline maintenance of a subsea well. The buoy is maintained in position over the well by a rigid riser kept under tension and...
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4694435 |
Vertical marine streamer
A device for receiving acoustic waves in water and adapted to be positioned vertically in the water in a stable position. The device comprises a tubular element formed of several connected...
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4680148 |
Mobile pond aerating system
A system for aerating in a programmed manner the desired areas of a water pond to enhance the environment for marine life in the pond; said system including a propelled boat with an aerator mounted...
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4677931 |
Variable buoyancy apparatus
Buoyancy apparatus for carrying a payload to and maintaining the payload at substantially a constant depth or within a desired range of depth, which comprises a variable buoyancy vessel, a depth...
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4650431 |
Quick disconnect storage production terminal
An offshore terminal is described, of the type which includes a dedicated vessel that supports a transfer structure loosely anchored as by several chains, and a fluid conduit structure that extends...
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4580987 |
Mooring line lockup mechanism
An Air Deployed Oceanographic Mooring when assembled for deployment has a ltitude of components suitable for separation by explosive bolts upon deployment of the system. A parachute system is...
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4546721 |
Submerged single point mooring system
A mooring system for anchoring sea going ships, such as storage or production tanker vessels, and more particularly, a submerged single point mooring system fixed to the seabed and which is...
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4498877 |
Anchoring system for a buoy, specially a measuring buoy
An anchoring system for buoys and specially measuring buoys in which an anchoring line is connected to an anchoring line connection member which is connected by at least two connection links to the...
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4487151 |
Floating highway
The present invention is a floating highway unit which has a structure which facilitates both removal from linkage in a series of units forming the highway, provides for simple alignment of the...
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4436049 |
Simulator for testing sonobuoys
Apparatus is provided for simulating an ocean environment for sonobuoys wh are being tested in a relatively calm body of water. A floating platform is towed through water to simulate a sea current,...
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4321720 |
Method of transferring a fluid from a station on the sea bed to a vessel, or vice-versa, and a means and a vessel for carrying out the method
In order to transfer a fluid from a station on the sea bed for a vessel or vice versa, a discharging/loading buoy comprising coupling apparatus for fluid flow is placed in a submerged state and...
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4221504 |
Stabilization of subsea riser pipes having free lower ends
Apparatus for position stabilizing the lower end of an elongate duct, which is vertically disposable in an ocean and which is supported at its upper end, is described. The apparatus includes an...
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4170186 |
Anchored offshore structure with sway control apparatus
An offshore structure adapted to carry a drilling or production platform. The structure has a positive buoyancy and is tied-down to the ocean floor by tensioned cables such that the structure is...
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4037278 |
Device for coupling a cardan half-joint with a fixed structure
In a device for coupling a cardan half-joint with a fixed structure, such as a device for the subsea anchoring of a structure which uses cardan joints, the improvement consisting in that the half...
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3992737 |
Suspension system for underwater equipment
A system for suspending underwater equipment at a predetermined depth below the surface; the system providing storage means for the equipment prior to deployment, protection for the equipment...
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3936895 |
Benthic bobbing buoy
A benthic bobbing buoy system which includes an anchor, a buoy, and an anr line connecting the buoy to the anchor, the anchor line being of a length to establish the buoy at a submerged position....
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3902439 |
Buoyancy arrangement for a submarine antenna buoy
There is disclosed herein an integrated buoyancy tank and electronic equipment canisters with the canisters hermetically sealed to each other and with the buoyancy tank hermetically sealed to one...
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3864772 |
DEPTH CONTROL
1. Apparatus for maintaining an underwater device at a substantially predrmined depth in water, comprising; gas release means including a valve body, a valve seat movable relative to the valve...
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3851348 |
ANGULAR RISE FLOTATION GEAR
1. A parachute for use with a submerged buoyant system comprising a center plate adapted to be secured to the submerged buoyant system, a first and a second foldable semi-circular piece each having...
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3828380 |
FIXED FREEBOARD SPAR BUOY
There is described an instrumentation buoy having an elongated vertical spar, the upper end of which has a collar to which is tied by a group of slack flexible lines, an annular float which...
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3800347 |
SPAR-TYPE BUOY FOR MARITIME NAVIGATION
A spar-type buoy for maritime navigation, which is capable of retaining a predetermined position, which comprises a tubular metallic and tapered support for a plastic floating member, said support...
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3789445 |
BUOY CONSTRUCTION
A vertically disposed tube having valves at each end and suspended in the ean for the purpose of creating dynamic system stability. When the valves are closed, water is trapped in the tube and...
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3753311 |
DEVICE HAVING A FLUID DISPLACEMENT VOLUME WHICH VARIES WITH TEMPERATURE
A device which seeks to maintain itself in a predetermined temperature region in a body of fluid having various temperature regions as the fluid displacement volume of the device is automatically...
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3739411 |
LOW FREQUENCY WAVE ABSORBING DEVICE
This disclosure is directed to a spar buoy system within which a compresse air bag or container has been installed to stabilize a platform. The compressible bag is positioned with its center at the...
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3732588 |
PAYLOAD DEPLOYMENT SYSTEM
A payload deployment system includes an elongated shaft member having a positive buoyancy relative to the environment in which the payload is to be deployed. This elongated shaft member includes at...
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