| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 114125000 | Water tanks | 25 |
| 20080295758 | DOCKSIDE WATER INTAKE SYSTEM FOR MARINE VESSELS - A method and apparatus for providing ballast water, cooling water, and/or auxiliary service water to a marine vessel is provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of pumps coupled to a docking facility. Each of the pumps collect water surrounding the docking facility and provides filtered water to the marine vessel as the vessel is moored. One or both of the docking facility and pumps may include a filtering device configured to prevent marine species from being entrained in the collected water. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090007832 | METHOD FOR CHANGING THE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL OF A WATERCRAFT AND APPARATUS THEREFORE - An apparatus for retarding and/or changing the direction of travel of a sailing vessel is disclosed. The apparatus includes a watercraft ( | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090071389 | WASTEWATER BALLAST SYSTEM AND METHOD - The invention discloses a wastewater ballast method that includes the steps of collecting wastewater, treating the collected wastewater, storing the treated wastewater, and discharging the treated wastewater during ballast operations. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090211507 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF BALLAST WATER, BILGE WATER AND WASTE WATER - A method for removing ballast water to trim a vessel. The method comprises connecting a mobile reservoir in fluid connection with at least one ballast reservoir of the vessel. After connection the ballast may be transferred water from the at least one ballast reservoir to the mobile water removal reservoir. The mobile reservoir may be disconnected from the at least one ballast reservoir. The ballast water in the mobile water removal reservoir may be tested for contaminants. There is also a method of handling vessel ballast water. A first authority may transfer first authority certified water to a ballast of a vessel. A second authority may transfer ballast water from the vessel and verify that the ballast water comprises first authority certified water. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090241822 | PERSONAL WATERCRAFT BALLAST - A personal watercraft has a hull and a deck. The deck includes a pedestal, two gunnels, two footrests, and a rear platform. A straddle-type seat is disposed on the pedestal. A steering assembly is disposed at least in part forwardly of the seat. An engine is supported by the hull. A propulsion system is connected to the hull and is operatively connected to the engine. A ballast tank is disposed at least in part on the rear platform. The ballast tank includes a rigid ballast tank body, and at least two apertures in the ballast tank body. A connector releasably connects the ballast tank to one of the hull and the deck. A pump fluidly communicates with one of the at least two apertures in the ballast tank body. A ballast tank having a generally L-shaped rigid ballast tank body is also disclosed. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100000457 | Method of controlling zoological and aquatic plant growth - A method of controlling target aquatic microorganism pest populations by exposing the target population to an effective amount of an aquacidal compound. The aquacidal compounds are selected from the group consisting of quinones, anthraquinones, naphthalenediones, quinine, warfarin, coumarins, amphotalide, cyclohexadiene-1,4-dione, phenidione, pirdone, sodium rhodizonate, apirulosin and thymoquinone. The method is particularly effective for treating ballast water of ships or other enclosed volumes of water subject to transport between or among geographic areas to control the relocation of plants, toxic bacteria, and animals contained in the water. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100018448 | SHIP BUOYANCY CONTROL SYSTEM | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100180810 | Sea Water System and Floating Vessel Comprising Such System - A sea water system comprises, an inlet conduit assembly, a ballast tank and an overflow arrangement arranged in fluid communication with the inlet conduit assembly. The inlet conduit assembly provides a fluid communication between ambient environment and the ballast tank. A first pump assembly is arranged in the inlet conduit assembly for pumping sea water through at least a first conduit portion towards the ballast tank. A second pump assembly is arranged in fluid communication with the ballast tank and is arranged for pumping sea water from the ballast tank through an outlet conduit assembly arranged after the second pump assembly. The second pump assembly and the outlet conduit assembly are separate from the inlet conduit assembly. The sea water system may be arranged on a floating vessel. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100236464 | SHIP STABILITY RECOVERY SYSTEM AND CAR CARRIER EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - [Object] Conventionally, measures for securing stability of a ship when it is damaged are required. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100275829 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE STABILIZATION OF A VESSEL - System for the active and passive stabilization of a vessel ( | 11-04-2010 |
| 20110107951 | Offshore Buoyant Drilling, Production, Storage and Offloading Structure - An offshore structure having a vertically symmetric hull, an upper vertical wall, an upper inwardly-tapered wall disposed below the upper vertical wall, a lower outwardly-tapered wall disposed below the upper sloped wall, and a lower vertical wall disposed below the lower sloped wall. The upper and lower sloped walls produce significant heave damping in response to heavy wave action. The addition of a heavy slurry of hematite and water ballast is added to the lower and outermost portions of the hull to lower the center of gravity below the center of buoyancy. The offshore structure provides one or more movable hawser connections that allow a tanker vessel to moor directly to the offshore structure during offloading rather than mooring to a separate buoy at some distance from the offshore storage structure. The movable hawser connection includes an arcuate rail with a movable trolley that provides a hawser connection point that allows vessel weathervaning. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110126749 | TANK ARRANGEMENT ADAPTED FOR A SUBMERSIBLE PUMP - The present invention relates to a ballast system for a marine structure. The ballast system comprises a ballast tank which is in fluid communication with a tank arrangement for temporarily holding bilge fluid and/or ballast fluid in a marine structure. The tank arrangement comprises a storage space defined by at least one tank wall, at least one fluid inlet for introducing the bilge fluid and/or ballast fluid in the storage space, and at least one fluid outlet permitting removal of at least parts of the bilge fluid and/or ballast fluid from the storage space. The at least one fluid outlet is at least partly formed by a caisson adapted for receiving a submersible pump at a submersible pump position in the storage space. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110174206 | WAVE ATTENUATING LARGE OCEAN PLATFORM - A large deck area floating platform with wave attenuating outriggers provides equivalent payload and deck operating area to a fixed, piled, and jacketed platform alternative for coastwise and offshore applications. The floating platform integrates large deck areas for industrial applications with a main ship-shaped hull and a submersible system of outriggers and column risers to form a stable, transportable, and structurally sound industrial facility that may be tuned hydro-dynamically to attenuate wave forces on the moored structure. The platform provides from 2 to 10 acres of weather deck and associated superstructure space, a ship-like hull, and direct subsea access via enclosed areas between the main hull and outriggers. Through the medium of differential ballasting, the displacement and freeboard of the facility may be adjusted to maintain hydro-dynamic tuning for changing wave conditions or to provide additional freeboard for storm survival. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20120216736 | Disconnectable mooring system and method for disconnecting or reconnecting it - A disconnectable mooring system for a vessel is presented, comprising a moonpool in the vessel, a turret structure mounted for a rotation in said moonpool and a buoy member having a plurality of passages each adapted to receive a riser. The turret structure has a lower end comprising a buoy receptacle for detachably receiving the buoy member, wherein the mooring system further comprises a plurality of mooring lines for transmitting mooring forces and each have a lower end and an upper end connected to the seabed and the buoy member, respectively. The mooring lines each comprise a first section which in a disconnectable manner is connected to the turret structure and a second section connected to the first section at a coupling point and connected to the buoy member. Also methods for disconnecting and reconnecting such a mooring system are presented. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120318184 | RECOVERING CAPSIZED WATERCRAFT INCORPORATING RAPID FILLING AND EMPTYING BALLAST SYSTEMS - A craft including a body having a front end, a rear end, two sides miming between said ends, and an axis running generally from the rear end to the front end; and a water displacement system operable to displace water to propel the craft across water and to displace water to cause the craft to rotate about said axis. The craft includes a ballast tank capable of being at least partially filled with ballast to change a position of a centre of gravity of the craft to assist in rotation of the craft when capsized. The craft also includes a rapid filling and emptying system for a ballast system of a craft in addition to a water displacement system, wherein the rapid filling and emptying system includes at least one ballasting intake through which water is passed from the water displacement system into said ballast system; and at least one ballasting outlet through which the water displacement system draws water from the ballast system. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20130152839 | SYSTEM OF ANCHORING AND MOORING OF FLOATING WIND TURBINE TOWERS AND CORRESPONDING METHODS FOR TOWING AND ERECTING THEREOF - A system of floating and weight-stabilized wind turbine towers with separately floodable compartments and aerodynamic overwater encasement and the appertaining semisubmersible mooring structures including anchorage on the seabed, a horizontally floating underwater mooring meshwork and an actinomorphic buoy-cable-mooring to the wind turbine towers. Also, a method to transport wind turbine towers from the manufacturing plants on-shore to the final off-shore destination by towing the vented towers in a horizontal position with towboats. Further, a method to erect the wind turbine towers at the final destination, including the assembly of the wind turbines. The worldwide potentials of off-shore wind farming in deep waters to produce electricity in an ecologically and economically sound way in order both to satisfy men's requirements and to help to reduce the need to rely on critical fossil and nuclear resources being immense. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130152840 | WORKING SYSTEM FOR FLOATING STRUCTURE, FLOATING STRUCTURE, WORKING SHIP, AND WORKING METHOD FOR FLOATING STRUCTURE - A working system includes a floating type floating structure, and a working ship configured to perform at least installation or maintenance of the floating structure. The floating structure has a column section whose peripheral surface is located at a waterline when the floating structure is floating, a ballast section arranged below the column section and a flange section arranged at an intermediate portion of the column section. The working ship has a gripping section capable of engaging with the flange section, and a raising/lowering device configured to raise and lower the floating structure. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130220197 | DEVICE FOR STABILIZING AN INFLATABLE STRUCTURE - The device comprises at least one pair of flexible ballasts which extend laterally along the length of the inflatable structure and each comprise an orifice, acting as a vent, situated at the front, and a scoop system situated at the rear. Between the ballasts, at least one pipe connects the cavities of said ballasts to equalize their level of fill and the stagnation pressure of the water obtaining in said cavities when the inflatable structure is pulled along in the inflated state. This scoop system consists of a component moulded in a rigid or semirigid thermoplastic or is made of an assembly of cutouts from a flexible material of watertight fabric. This scoop system is bonded and/or welded to the ballast. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130340664 | WATER SPORTS TOWING VESSELL AND METHOD - Wakeboarding performance is improved using a vessel having an operator station located generally amidships, a vertical support unit fitted across a beam of the vessel near the operator station, and adjustable ballast. An upper portion of the vertical support is at a height substantially above a level of the operator station, and a container is onboard and proximate the starboard and port sides, wherein water from a body of water within which the vessel is operating is directed into the container for weighing down a stern of the vessel to provide the ballast so as to modify a wake created for a wakeboarder or the like being towed by the vessel using a tow rope attached to the upper portion of the vertical support. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140373768 | Method and Apparatus for Insta Fill Wake System - A Method and Apparatus for Insta Fill Wake System have been disclosed. By using a rotatable cylinder that can be positioned as closed, flood, and drain and deployable on a boat, controlled filling/emptying/holding of water in ballast tanks is possible without the use of pumps. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150027357 | Ballast System - The present embodiments relate to ballast systems for marine structures. The ballast system comprises a ballast tank and a pump. The pump comprises a low side and a high side and the ballast system comprises a first inlet conduit assembly adapted to provide a fluid communication between the ballast tank and the low side. The ballast system is adapted to provide a first operating condition in which first operating condition a fluid is pumped from the low side to the high side. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150053127 | BALLAST SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS - A ballast system and method use a situational adaptive approach to measure, control and monitor the level of liquid in an onboard ballast tank. A baseline level of liquid in the tank, established while the watercraft is static, is stored in memory associated with a controller. While the watercraft is moving, the controller monitors pump conditions, e.g., run time, flow, vacuum, etc., and extrapolates the amount of water added to or drained from the tank. The baseline level and extrapolated added/drained amount are added to accurately determine the true liquid level in the tank. That information is displayed to the watercraft operator. The system can automatically adjust watercraft attitude by adding/draining water from the ballast tank based on preset values to provide a desired wake. The system can display ballast levels in volume, percentage of full, and weight; and can provide estimated times to achieve preset levels, empty or full. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20160001855 | CLOSED INCLINATION CHANGE SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to a closed inclination change system ( | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160137264 | Floating Construction - A floating construction comprising a container filled fully or partially with water, the lower portion of the container being located within a surrounding body of water and the water surface level of the surrounding body of water being substantially lower that the water surface level inside the container, the container comprising transparent walls or walls with transparent sections and at least one open opening for entering the container, which at least one open opening is located below the surface level of the surrounding body of water, and which floating construction comprises space for spectators observing activities taking place inside the container, wherein the floating construction comprises at least one ballast tank, which ballast tank is connected to the container with a controllable pressure connection, and which ballast tank has controllable water connection to the surrounding body of water. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160137275 | Floating Construction - A floating construction comprising a water space within the floating construction, which water space has transparent walls and/or walls containing transparent sections, and at least one open opening allowing water surrounding the floating construction to enter into the water space, and the floating construction comprising space next to the water space for spectators observing the activities taking place inside the water space, wherein the floating construction comprises a draft control system for changing water surface level inside the water space.” | 05-19-2016 |
