Fabricated ocean tunnel structure with escape device and application method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11933176-B2
Application number	US-202318453868-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 22, 2023
Priority date	May 26, 2021
Publication date	Mar 19, 2024
Grant date	Mar 19, 2024

Abstract

The present invention belongs to the technical field of ocean traffic engineering, and relates to a fabricated ocean tunnel structure with an escape device and an application method thereof. The present invention includes a fabricated ocean tunnel structure and an escape device. the partition plate separates a middle bin in the tunnel, and the escape device is connected into the middle bin; and the escape device includes a rescue capsule, transverse ladders are evenly arranged in the rescue capsule, and a balancing weight block and a rescue equipment area are arranged at the bottom of the rescue capsule. The ocean tunnel structure can be provided with a rescue device during installation, and the safety of personnel escape can be guaranteed; therefore, the safety of the ocean tunnel structure is improved, cost is relatively low, secondary damage to the ocean tunnel structure is not needed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fabricated ocean tunnel structure with an escape device, comprising:
a fabricated ocean tunnel structure and an escape device, wherein
the fabricated ocean tunnel structure comprises a tunnel outer wall, a top plate and a partition plate;
the top plate is located at the upper portion of the fabricated ocean tunnel structure; a motor equipment bin is arranged above the top plate, a traffic area is arranged below the top plate, and a pavement area is arranged at the bottom of the traffic area;
the partition plate is located within the fabricated ocean tunnel structure and a middle bin is formed by the partition plates positioning within the fabricated ocean tunnel structure,
the escape device is arranged in the middle bin, and the escape device is detachably connected with the middle bin; switchable partition doors are evenly arranged on the partition plate, and a switchable seal plate is arranged at the top of the middle bin;
the escape device comprises a rescue capsule, a switchable rescue capsule hatch and a switchable rescue capsule top hatch are respectively arranged on the side and at the top of the rescue capsule, transverse ladders are evenly arranged in the rescue capsule in the height direction, a balancing weight block is arranged at the bottom of the rescue capsule, and a rescue equipment area are arranged above the balancing weight block;
a primary water pipe is buried in the middle of the pavement area, and the primary water pipe communicates the middle bin arranged in the length direction of the fabricated ocean tunnel structure; a secondary water pipe is arranged between the primary water pipe and the middle bin;
the rescue capsule comprises a rescue capsule outer wall and a rescue capsule inner wall, wherein a rescue capsule outer wall hatch and a rescue capsule inner wall hatch are respectively arranged on the rescue capsule outer wall and the rescue capsule inner wall, and the rescue capsule outer wall hatch and the rescue capsule inner wall hatch are connected through an N-shaped rotary lock switch; a bidirectional rotary lock switch is arranged on the rescue capsule top hatch, and the rescue capsule top hatch can be opened or closed inside and outside the rescue capsule by rotating the bidirectional rotary lock switch; and
the escape device and the middle bin are fixed to a first rotary lock switch by means of the N-shaped rotary lock switch.

2. The fabricated ocean tunnel structure with an escape device according to claim 1 , wherein the fabricated ocean tunnel structure also comprises tunnel sidewalls and a tunnel middle wall, wherein the tunnel sidewalls are located at both ends of the fabricated ocean tunnel structure, and the tunnel middle wall is located in the middle of the fabricated ocean tunnel structure; and the partition plate is attached to the tunnel sidewalls and the tunnel middle wall.

3. The fabricated ocean tunnel structure with an escape device according to claim 1 , wherein the partition door is provided with the first rotary lock switch, and the partition door can be opened and closed by clockwise and counterclockwise rotation of the first rotary lock switch; and the seal plate is provided with a seal plate knob, and the seal plate can be opened and closed in the tunnel direction through the rotation of the seal plate knob.

4. The fabricated ocean tunnel structure with an escape device according to claim 1 , wherein the rescue capsule outer wall is separated from the rescue capsule inner wall by a certain gap, and the rescue capsule outer wall is connected to the rescue capsule inner wall through an arranged support distributed at a specified position.

5. The fabricated ocean tunnel structure with an escape device according to claim 1 , wherein the rescue capsule outer wall hatch and the rescue capsule inner wall hatch are arranged on both sides of the middle portion of the rescue capsule outer wall and the rescue capsule inner wall.

6. The fabricated ocean tunnel structure with an escape device according to claim 1 , wherein an observing window hole is arranged on the periphery of the rescue capsule top hatch, a Global Positioning System (GPS) positioning device is arranged on the upper side of the outer portion of the rescue capsule outer wall, and the balancing weight block and the rescue equipment area are detachable.

Assignees

• Univ Shandong

Inventors

• Wu Ke
• Liu Yajun
• Liu Zhenhua
• Dou Zhongyu
• Xu Wenbin
• Liu Dapeng

Classifications

• E21D9/14 Primary

  Layout of tunnels or galleries; Constructional features of tunnels or galleries, not otherwise provided for, e.g. portals, day-light attenuation at tunnel openings · CPC title

• B63G8/40

  Rescue equipment for personnel (life-saving in water, not specially adapted for submarine personnel B63C) · CPC title

• E21F11/00 Primary

  Rescue devices or other safety devices, e.g. safety chambers or escape ways (breathing aids for curative purposes A61H31/00; respiratory apparatus A62B7/00; breathing apparatus for accidentally buried persons A62B33/00) · CPC title

• B63G8/41

  Capsules, chambers, water-tight boats or the like, detachable from the submarine · CPC title

• E02D29/073

  Tunnels or shuttering therefor assembled from sections individually sunk onto, or laid on, the water-bed, e.g. in a preformed trench (caisson-type sections lowered onto the water-bed E02D29/077) · CPC title