Ships – Submersible device – Detachably connected to a main vessel
Patent
1991-12-11
1993-08-17
Brown, David H.
Ships
Submersible device
Detachably connected to a main vessel
114328, 114 50, 405188, B63G 841, B63C 1110
Patent
active
052359328
ABSTRACT:
Mechanically cooperating assemblies on an undersea vehicle and an instrumation target assure the making of a rigid coupling for passing electrical, optical or fluid information between the vehicle and the instrumentation and reduce the complexity of such a coupling from a three-dimensional to a two-dimensional maneuver by the vehicle. An undersea vehicle locates a pair of spaced-apart vertical cables which are attached to an instrumentation target assembly and engages them anywhere along their length with a converging grabber assembly mounted on the forward moving underwater vehicle. After engaging the cables, the grabber assembly merely slides along the cables toward the instrumentation target assembly. When the grabber assembly is nested in the instrumentation target assembly, a rigid attachment therewith is achieved by merely retracting the grabber arm assembly to pull appropriately located mating electrical, optical or fluid information connectors together to effect a coupling since a proper alignment is guaranteed by the mating configurations of the assemblies.
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Brown David H.
Fendelman Harvey
Keough Thomas Glenn
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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