IPC분류정보
국가/구분 |
United States(US) Patent
등록
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국제특허분류(IPC7판) |
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출원번호 |
US-0178324
(2002-06-24)
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발명자
/ 주소 |
- Barmakian, Andrew
- Barmakian, Bruce B.
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대리인 / 주소 |
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인용정보 |
피인용 횟수 :
2 인용 특허 :
3 |
초록
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A composite fender panel for protecting a harbor structure includes a resilient body member having a front surface and a rear mounting surface spaced by a panel thickness from a main portion of the front surface. Encapsulated within the body member is a cage frame including a frame having a pluralit
A composite fender panel for protecting a harbor structure includes a resilient body member having a front surface and a rear mounting surface spaced by a panel thickness from a main portion of the front surface. Encapsulated within the body member is a cage frame including a frame having a plurality of intersecting beams of uniform cross-section including front and rear flange portions and a connecting web portion, at least some of the flange portions forming respective front and rear faces of the frame; a grid of steel reinforcing rods having gripping projections formed thereon, the rods also having a nominal cross-sectional diameter being not more than 10 percent of the panel thickness, a first plurality of the rods being welded to the front face of the frame, a second plurality of the rods having welded connections to the first rods in spaced relation opposite the front face of the frame; and an attachment structure defining a spaced plurality of attachment elements formed in respective boss members, each of the boss members being rigidly connected between respective front and rear flanges of one of the beams.
대표청구항
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A composite fender panel for protecting a harbor structure includes a resilient body member having a front surface and a rear mounting surface spaced by a panel thickness from a main portion of the front surface. Encapsulated within the body member is a cage frame including a frame having a pluralit
A composite fender panel for protecting a harbor structure includes a resilient body member having a front surface and a rear mounting surface spaced by a panel thickness from a main portion of the front surface. Encapsulated within the body member is a cage frame including a frame having a plurality of intersecting beams of uniform cross-section including front and rear flange portions and a connecting web portion, at least some of the flange portions forming respective front and rear faces of the frame; a grid of steel reinforcing rods having gripping projections formed thereon, the rods also having a nominal cross-sectional diameter being not more than 10 percent of the panel thickness, a first plurality of the rods being welded to the front face of the frame, a second plurality of the rods having welded connections to the first rods in spaced relation opposite the front face of the frame; and an attachment structure defining a spaced plurality of attachment elements formed in respective boss members, each of the boss members being rigidly connected between respective front and rear flanges of one of the beams. ach of said tumblehome outer surface and said inner surface so as to generally be interposed between said tumblehome outer surface and said inner surface; said inner surface is a tumblehome inner surface; and relative to horizontality, said tumblehome outer surface and said tumblehome inner surface are about equivalently sloped. 2. A water vehicle such as a water transportation vehicle, said water vehicle having a length, an imaginary lengthwise axis, a port side, a starboard side, a bow and a stern, said water vehicle being about equivalently configured on each said side of said water vehicle, wherein on each said side of said water vehicle: said water vehicle comprises a tumblehome outer surface, an inner surface and a junctional surface; said inner surface generally is located more proximate said lengthwise axis than said tumblehome outer surface; said junctional surface joins each of said tumblehome outer surface and said inner surface so as to generally be interposed between said tumblehome outer surface and said inner surface; relative to said lengthwise axis, said tumblehome outer surface and said inner surface each extend from about said stern to about the same intermediate lengthwise position of said water vehicle; said intermediate lengthwise position is forward of said stern and aft of said bow; said exterior juncture is about parallel to said lengthwise axis; said interior juncture is nonparallel to said lengthwise axis; and horizontally considered, said interior junction slants toward said lengthwise axis in the aftward direction. 3. A hull comprising a pair of lateral fins and a medial portion between said lateral fins, said lateral fins being integrally associated with said medial portion, each said lateral fin including a lateral tumblehome face, said hull including a back section of said hull, and a front section of said hull; said hull being characterized by a length and by an imaginary horizontal plane passing through said hull; said back section including said lateral fins and said medial portion; said medial portion including a pair of medial faces; each said lateral fin including a crosswise face; each said crosswise face and a said lateral tumblehome face forming therebetween an at least substantially horizontal fin edge; each said crosswise face and a said medial face forming therebetween an at least substantially horizontal junctional corner; each said crosswise face being at least substantially sloped at an angle with respect to said imaginary horizontal plane which, to at least a substantial degree, gradually increases in accordance with the forward lengthwise direction of said hull; said hull being characterized an imaginary lengthwise medial vertical plane passing through said hull; each said crosswise face at least substantially being sloped at an angle with respect to said imaginary lengthwise medial vertical plane which, to at least a substantial degree, gradually increases in accordance with the forward direction of said imaginary lengthwise medial vertical plane; said fin edges being at least substantially parallel to each other; said fin edges, at least to a substantial degree, being situated at about the same fin edge height. 4. A hull as recited inclaim 3, wherein: said back section generally describes a rectangular top-perspective plan outline; said front section generally describes a triangular top-perspective plan outline which narrows frontward; said lateral fins are a starboard fin and a port fin; said lateral fins and said medial portion generally describe therebetween a pair of furrows; said furrows are a starboard furrow and a port furrow; each said lateral fin generally describes a downwardly pointing wedge-shaped back-perspective profile; each said furrow generally describes an upwardly pointing notch-shaped back-perspective profile; said back section represents at least half the length of said hull; said front section includes a pair of front faces; sa id front faces and said lateral tumblehome faces at least substantially reach the same first vertically upper extreme height; and said medial faces at least substantially reach a second vertically upper extreme height which, at least to a substantial degree, is lower than said first vertically upper extreme height. 5. A hull as recited in claim 3, wherein: said back section includes an at least substantially rectilinear stern which describes a lower transom edge; and said lower transom edge and said fin edges, to at least a substantial degree, are situated at about the same fin edge height. 6. A hull as recited in claim 5, wherein: said medial portion includes a medial bottom side; said medial bottom side and said rectilinear stern meet at said lower transom edge; said medial bottom side generally describes a regular trapezoidal outline which narrows backward; and generally, during straight-course navigation of said hull, said lower transom edge, said fin edges and said medial bottom side, to at least a substantial degree, are at least slightly submerged. 7. A hull as recited in claim 3, wherein: said medial faces are medial tumblehome faces; said medial portion generally describes a regular trapezoidal back-perspective profile which narrows upward; each said crosswise face at least substantially is sloped at a smaller angle with respect to said imaginary horizontal plane than are said medial tumblehome faces and said lateral tumblehome faces; and each said crosswise face at least substantially is sloped at a greater angle with respect to said imaginary lengthwise medial vertical plane than are said medial tumblehome faces and said lateral tumblehome faces. 8. A hull as recited in claim 3, wherein: said medial faces are medial tumblehome faces; said medial tumblehome faces and said lateral tumblehome faces, to at least a substantial degree, are sloped at at about the same at least substantially constant angle with respect to said imaginary lengthwise medial vertical plane; said front faces are front tumblehome faces; and said front tumblehome faces, said medial tumblehome faces and said lateral tumblehome faces, to at least a substantial degree, are sloped at about the same at least substantially constant angle with respect to said imaginary lengthwise medial vertical plane. 9. A marine vessel comprising a hull having, on opposite port-starboard sides of said hull, a pair of inner surfaces, a pair of tumblehome outer surfaces and a pair of inner-outer connective surfaces, said inner surfaces and said inner-outer connective surfaces together defining a pair of downwardly divergently acutely angular grooves on said opposite sides; said outer tumblehome surfaces and said inner-outer connective surfaces together defining a pair of upwardly divergently acutely angular structures on said opposite sides; said grooves and said structures being approximately coextensive longitudinally from the stern of said hull to a pair of approximately equivalent junctional locations; said grooves and said structures tapering in the longitudinally forward direction from said stern to said locations; said tumblehome outer surfaces approximately defining respective outer tumblehome axes which are approximately parallel in relation to each other; said inner surfaces approximately defining respective inner axes which are approximately coplanar and oblique in relation to each other, said inner axes diverging in said longitudinally forward direction; wherein, on each said side, the corresponding said tumblehome outer surface, the corresponding said inner-outer connective surface and the corresponding said inner surface converge in the approximate vicinity of the corresponding said junctional location. 10. The marine vessel according to claim 9, wherein: said junctional locations are behind the longitudinally forwardmost point of said hull in the longitudinally forward half of said hull; said tumblehome outer surfaces a re approximately coextensive vertically to a first horizontal level which is proximate the top of said hull; said inner surfaces are approximately coextensive vertically to a second horizontal level which is below said first horizontal level; said tumblehome outer surfaces are disposed at approximately equal, opposite and constant angles in relation to an imaginary planar longitudinal bisector through said hull; said inner surfaces are disposed at approximately equal, opposite and constant angles in relation to said imaginary bisector; said inner-outer connective surfaces meet said inner surfaces approximately at said second horizontal level; and said inner-outer connective surfaces are disposed at approximately equal and opposite nonconstant angles in relation to said imaginary bisector; and in relation to said imaginary bisector, said nonconstant angles decrease in said longitudinally forward direction. 11. A hull configuration having an imaginary centerline and comprising a stern surface, an outer starboard tumblehome surface, an inner starboard surface, an outer port tumblehome surface, an inner port surface, a starboard obliquely downfacing surface and a port obliquely downfacing surface, wherein: said outer starboard tumblehome surface, said inner starboard surface, said outer port tumblehome surface, said inner port surface, said starboard obliquely downfacing surface and said port obliquely downfacing surface each extend from said stern surface in a generally forward direction; said starboard obliquely downfacing surface connects said outer starboard tumblehome and said inner starboard surface; said port obliquely downfacing surface connects said outer port tumblehome surface and said inner port surface; said outer starboard tumblehome surface and said outer port tumblehome surface are each approximately parallel to said centerline; proceeding from said stern surface in a generally forward direction, said inner starboard surface and said inner port surface diverge from said centerline in approximately equivalent fashion; said hull configuration comprises an approximately horizontally downfacing surface which approximately describes a regular trapezoidal shape and which is approximately symmetrical with respect to said centerline; and said approximately horizontally downfacing surface connects said inner starboard surface and said inner port surface. 12. A hull configuration having an imaginary centerline and comprising a stern surface, an outer starboard tumblehome surface, an inner starboard surface, an outer port tumblehome surface, an inner port surface, a starboard obliquely downfacing surface and a port obliquely downfacing surface, wherein: said outer starboard tumblehome surface, said inner starboard surface, said outer port tumblehome surface, said inner port surface, said starboard obliquely downfacing surface and said port obliquely downfacing surface each extend from said stern surface in a generally forward direction; said starboard obliquely downfacing surface connects said outer starboard tumblehome and said inner starboard surface; said port obliquely downfacing surface connects said outer port tumblehome surface and said inner port surface; said outer starboard tumblehome surface and said outer port tumblehome surface are each approximately parallel to said centerline; proceeding from said stern surface in a generally forward direction, said inner starboard surface and said inner port surface diverge from said centerline in approximately equivalent fashion; said inner starboard surface is an inner tumblehome starboard surface; said inner port surface is an inner tumblehome port surface; said outer starboard tumblehome surface, said starboard obliquely downfacing surface and said inner starboard tumblehome surface define, from an aft perspective, an approximate N-shaped starboard profile wherein said outer starboard tumblehome surface reaches a greater elevation than does sai
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