Ships inventions 05/08

20080121160 - Method and building system for manufacture a floating structure: A method and a building system for manufacturing a floating structure, for instance a watercraft, in which method the hull part for the floating structure is formed, it is provided with deck structures or similar support structures, and space units are prefabricated and installed between said deck structures or similar... Agent: Smith-hill And Bedell, P.C.

20080121161 - Lift-up cleat: A lift-up cleat for use with water craft wherein the vertical movement of the lift-up cleat is retarded by means of a friction sleeve which allows water to pass therethrough and reduces rattles.... Agent: Jensen + Puntigam, P.s.

20080121162 - Means for transferring electric power in a turret-moored vessel and method of assembly: Means for transferring electric power and/or signals comprises an electrical power slip-ring system (EPSR) (3) comprising a housing (4) containing an electrical slip-rings, the housing (4) being connected to a support structure (6) of a vessel (7) and a brush carrier unit (8) that is in slidable contact with the... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080121163 - Through-hull mooring system: A mooring system for floating platform that includes a hawspipe positioned below the sea level when the platform is ballasted for normal operations. The system also includes an outer fairlead that guides a mooring line from the floating platform to an anchoring point on the seabed. The outer fairlead is... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20080121164 - Propulsion system: A system and method for propelling an underwater diver provides for oral activation of a propulsion means. Specifically, the system includes a mouthpiece in fluid communication with an air tank and electrically connected to the propulsion means via a circuit. A switch is positioned in the mouthpiece such that the... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20080121165 - Unmanned underwater vessel: With an unmanned underwater vessel having a pressure hull, drive assembly and at least one ancillary device arranged on the pressure hull, for example a propeller protection apparatus (15), the at least one ancillary device (15) is fixedly connected to a lifting body (16), which has a lower density than... Agent: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery

20080121166 - Modular kayak: A modular kayak including several main parts which are designed and manufactured so that their external form grants the modular kayak superior kayaking performance and enables their assembly into a single compact package, which can fit into the trunk of a regular family car and be easily carried by hand,... Agent: Dr. Mark Friedman Ltd. C/o Bill Polkinghorn

20080115712 - Outboard motor control system: In a system for controlling outboard motors each mounted on a boat and each having an internal combustion engine and a shift mechanism, an actuator driving at least one of the shift mechanism and a throttle valve of the engine, and a controller controlling operation of the actuator, comprising: a... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20080115711 - Watercraft steering device and watercraft: A steering wheel, operable by an operator, can be electrically connected to an electric motor to provide an actuation signal corresponding to the amount of a steering wheel operation to the electric motor, a reaction motor for applying a reaction to the steering wheel, and an ECU for controlling the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080115713 - Watercraft steering system: A boat steering system provides an operator with excellent efficiency and an excellent operation feel during direction guide member deflection by considering and making adjustments based on a running status of the boat. An ECU controls a direction guide member deflection angle limit. The ECU includes and/lor communicates with detectors... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080115714 - Modular integrated semisubmersible: A semisubmersible floating offshore structure. The hull is defined by individual modular buoyant columns. A separate buoyant pontoon is provided at the lower end of each column. Topside structural framing between the columns retains the columns in their spaced relationship. A truss section is attached to the pontoons and a... Agent: J. Ray Mcdermott, S.a. Patent Department

20080115715 - Floating module and modular floating structure with variable configuration: A floating module, particularly for providing modular floating structures, comprising a tubular body open at its lower end, which is designed to be directed toward the seabed, and provided, at its upper end, with a closure element which is provided with at least one opening for injecting compressed air into... Agent: Modiano & Associati

20080115716 - Watercraft having a kite-like element: The invention relates to a water craft comprising a kite-type element, which is connected to said water craft by means of a traction cable. Said water craft is characterized in that the kite-type element is equipped with adjusting devices, which are supplied with energy from the water craft, said energy... Agent: Alix Yale & Ristas LLP

20080110385 - Water vehicle: A top side of a deck can have a generally flat shape. A pedestal-like operator's seat base can be disposed slightly rearwardly from a central part of the deck. On an upper part of the operator's seat base, an operator's seat, a passenger's seat and a handlebar can be provided.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080110386 - Rubber for ships: The invention relates to a rudder for ships with propeller drive, in which the propeller is arranged to rotate about a propulsion axis, with a rudder blade (15) and a flow body (20) arranged on the rudder blade (15), whereby the flow body designed in a bulb or zeppelin shape... Agent: Friedrich Kueffner

20080110387 - Boat deck locker: A boat having a deck with a deck locker is disclosed herein. The deck locker includes a compartment mounted beneath the deck, and an opening in the deck for accessing the interior of the compartment. The locker also includes a lid for covering the opening in the deck. The locker... Agent: Attention Of David G. Schmaltz Merchant & Gould P.c.

20080110388 - Tuned vented hull: A harmonic apparatus designed to affect the performance of waterborne vessels. The vibratory generator is tuned with respect to the fundamental frequency of the vessel at the onset of planning, the various wave patterns generated by the moving vessel and the kinematics of the vortex sheet. As the vessel moves... Agent: Michael Palladino

20080110389 - Distributed temperature sensing in a remotely operated vehicle umbilical fiber optic cable: Methods and apparatus for monitoring a remotely operated vehicle umbilical condition in real time allowing for improving of power delivery as well as early detection of threats to integrity of the umbilical. The umbilical may include an optical fiber. Processing equipment may enable distributed temperature sensing along the optical fiber.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.l.p.

20080110390 - Light-activated assistive reading device for visually impaired individuals: An assistive reading device for visually impaired users comprises a sheet-like member containing a photo-active material. The sheet-like member responds to light patterns representing data from a patterned light source to form tactile shapes on its surface. The visually impaired user obtains information by touching the tactile shapes. Preferably, the... Agent: Ibm Corporation Rochester Ip Law Dept. 917

20080105181 - Watercraft lift stabilizling system and accessories therefor: This document is directed toward a stabilizing system that is engageable with a watercraft lift assembly. The system includes a piling bracket, at least one piling bracket keyhole in the piling bracket, a lift-block having at least one keyhole pin extending from a first side of said lift-block toward said... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20080105182 - Swing away steering wheel assembly for a boat: A steering assembly for a boat has a steering wheel, a mounting means to which the steering wheel is attached, and attachment means to attach the mounting means to the boat, the mounting means being movable between a use position where the mounting means generally extends partially across the inside... Agent: Hoffman, Wasson & Gitler, P.C. Crystal Centre

20080105183 - Sailboat rudder: A rudder mechanism for use upon a sailboat is capable of being raised or lowered at the discretion of the boater using a single connected cable operating system, so that the system may be called a “one-pull” system for both raising and for lowering the rudder. The rudder is preferably... Agent: Dykas, Shaver & Nipper, LLP

20080105184 - Port security barrier: The port security barrier includes multiple barrier float assemblies connected to one another to form a barrier to stop, delay and discourage attacks by high speed boats of sixty five feet or less in length on high valued waterfront assets such as ports and docking facilities. The port security barrier... Agent: Navairwd Counsel Group

20080105185 - Tug barge lightering connection system: A lightering connection system is provided for coupling a tug boat to a barge, where the connection permits relative vertical movement between the tug and barge while maintaining horizontal movement control between the vessels. The tug boat has port and starboard retractable rams having coupler heads which engage the barge... Agent: Spencer, Fane, Britt & Browne

20080105186 - Boat lifting apparatus and method: A lifting apparatus for raising and lowering a vessel such as personal watercraft, jet skis, inflatables may be mounted to a transom on boats, to bulkheads and to docks for raising and lowering vessels. A single actuator is used for raising and lowering a cradle that supports the vessel. An... Agent: Carl M. Napolitano, Ph.d. Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.

20080105187 - Waterborne vessel with loop keel: A vessel (10) for travelling on water comprises a hull means (20) and a keel (30) comprising a member (34) depending from the hull means, the member (34) comprising two limbs (44) each depending from a respective lateral side of the hull means (20), the two limbs (44) defining at... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20080105188 - Self-righting pool cleaning robot: A vehicle includes a submersible housing and a propulsion mechanism, which is coupled to drive the housing over an interior surface of a container in which the housing is submerged. A hollow tube is fixed to the housing and is configured to be filled with a fluid having a first... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080105189 - Method and device for producing a boat-type body of a water sport device: The invention relates to a method and to a device for producing a boat-type body (10) of a water sport device. According to the invention, a rotating frame (12), which is pre-formed about an access opening of the boat-like body (10), is arranged on an inner side of a negative... Agent: Friedrich Kueffner

20080105190 - Stowable low profile boat ladder: A ladder for a recreational boat has an elongated support which has a rung or step at one end and is pivotally attached to the hull or transom of the boat at the other end so it can be swung downward into or toward the water for use in climbing... Agent: Marvin Jacobson Jacobson And Johnson

20080098941 - Apparatus to determine the optimum setting of a boat sail: An apparatus to measure and display the pressures developed on the surfaces of a boat sail. This apparatus uses an electronic module that attaches to the sail to measure and calculate the surface pressures or differential pressure and transmit this data via wireless link to a separate display unit. The... Agent: Duane Groves

20080098942 - Steering system and an associated vessel: A steering system for a vessel is provided. The steering system includes an electric motor assembly and a steering linkage for transmitting the rotational output of the electric motor assembly to the vessel's rudder. The steering system may include at least three linkage members. The steering system may provide a... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080098943 - Method and apparatus for use in assembly of hydrofoil skeg: A method for preparing and assembling parts of a skin for a curved structure, and apparatus for use in connection therewith. A gantry may be used to carry cutting torches and welder heads along predetermined paths to cut skin plates accurately into skin parts and to weld the skin parts... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080098944 - Self-contained sea water linear actuator: An actuator that at least inhibits the deleterious effects of corrosive fluids, such as seawater, does not rely on relatively expensive materials, and is capable of operation and relatively high pressures includes two sealed buffer chambers. One buffer chamber is supplied with a buffer fluid, and the other buffer chamber... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080098945 - Kayak having deck fairing: An improved kayak provides a rigid open cockpit hull with air chambers attached to the hull. The air chambers provide a generally convex shape for increased maneuverability and also provide cushioning against impact to reduce the risk of injury to the kayak pilot. The air chambers allow for an open... Agent: Randall B. Bateman BatemanIPLaw Group

20080098946 - Fishing boat bathroom privacy system: A privacy screen for use on a bass boat to cover the cockpit area for use as a toilet.... Agent: Cash Klemchuk Powers Taylor LLP

20080098948 - Flush glazed bottom trim: A multi-piece bottom trim member secures a curved sheet element such as a boat windshield on a surface such as a boat hull. The trim member includes a base member securable to the surface and including a supporting leg, and an upper member including a base member receiving channel that... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080098949 - Boat cover system including flexible portions: A cover system for enclosing an opening on a boat is disclosed. The cover system includes at least one body portion. A plurality of fasteners are attached to the at least one body portion for attaching the cover system to the boat. At least one flexible portion is attached to... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080098947 - Boat roof, in particular yacht roof, and boat: The invention relates to a boat roof, in particular a yacht roof, on a boat deck, the boat roof having a roof element. The roof element can be raised via a pivoting mechanism with a lifting unit, by pivoting about a pivoting spindle in order to produce, for deck areas... Agent: Burr & Brown