Autonomous underwater vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12466528-B2
Application number	US-202117928274-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 11, 2021
Priority date	Oct 22, 2021
Publication date	Nov 11, 2025
Grant date	Nov 11, 2025

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of autonomous underwater vehicles, in particular to an unmanned cable-free operation type autonomous underwater vehicle. The unmanned cable-free operation type autonomous underwater vehicle includes a bow, a middle and a stern, each of the bow, the middle and the stern is of a hollow structure, the middle is provided with a manipulator lifting device and a cabin door opening and closing mechanism, the bow is provided with a first horizontal channel propeller and a first vertical channel propeller, and the stern is provided with two second vertical channel propellers and four main propellers. High-speed cruising of the unmanned cable-free operation type autonomous underwater vehicle can be achieved, and stable and precise hovering needed by the operation of the unmanned cable-free operation type autonomous underwater vehicle can also be achieved.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An unmanned cable-free operation type autonomous underwater vehicle, comprising a bow, a middle and a stern, wherein each of the bow, the middle and the stern is of a hollow structure; the middle is provided with a manipulator lifting device and a cabin door opening and closing mechanism, the bow is provided with a first horizontal channel propeller and a first vertical channel propeller, and the stern is provided with two second vertical channel propellers and four main propellers.

2 . The unmanned cable-free operation type autonomous underwater vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the manipulator lifting device comprises a fixed base mounted in the middle, the fixed base is mounted with a push rod capable of stretching up and down, a lower end of the push rod is connected with a manipulator, and guide shafts penetrating through the fixed base up and down, lower ends of the guide shafts are fixedly connected to a top of the manipulator.

3 . The unmanned cable-free operation type autonomous underwater vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein four guide shafts are provided and are circumferentially arrayed on a periphery of the push rod.

4 . The unmanned cable-free operation type autonomous underwater vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein the stern comprises a base part fixed with an upper vertical tail, a left horizontal tail, a lower vertical tail and a right horizontal tail at an outer wall of the base part; the upper vertical tail, the left horizontal tail, the lower vertical tail and the right horizontal tail are circumferentially distributed at equal intervals and respectively provided with one main propeller.

5 . The unmanned cable-free operation type autonomous underwater vehicle according to claim 4 , wherein the left horizontal tail and the right horizontal tail are further respectively provided with one second vertical channel propeller, and the second vertical channel propellers are located on front sides of the main propellers.

6 . The unmanned cable-free operation type autonomous underwater vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein a length of the bow is 750-1,000 mm, a ratio of the length of the bow to a length of the middle is 0.3 to 0.6, and a ratio of a length of the stern to the length of the middle is 0.7 to 1.0.

7 . The unmanned cable-free operation type autonomous underwater vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein a counterweight module is mounted at a position, on a periphery of the cabin door, in the middle.

8 . The unmanned cable-free operation type autonomous underwater vehicle according to claim 7 , wherein the counterweight module comprises strip-shaped guide lead pigs circumferentially distributed on the periphery of the cabin door at equal intervals and are in a scattered pattern, and guide grooves for draining moving water flow when the cabin door is opened or closed are formed between the adjacent strip-shaped guide lead pigs.

Assignees

• Univ Hangzhou Dianzi

Inventors

• Tian Xiaoqing
• Ge Haofan
• Pan Huachen
• Chen Honghua
• Zhang Xueting
• Lv Ming
• Zhu Zefei
• Yang Junyi
• Liu Jingbiao

Classifications

• B63C11/52 Primary

  Tools specially adapted for working underwater, not otherwise provided for · CPC title

• B63G2008/004

  autonomously operating · CPC title

• B63G2008/005

  remotely controlled · CPC title

• B63G8/16

  by direct use of propellers or jets · CPC title

• B63G2008/002

  unmanned · CPC title