CN101909985A - Sealing for fin propulsion - Google Patents

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CN101909985A
CN101909985A CN2008801243817A CN200880124381A CN101909985A CN 101909985 A CN101909985 A CN 101909985A CN 2008801243817 A CN2008801243817 A CN 2008801243817A CN 200880124381 A CN200880124381 A CN 200880124381A CN 101909985 A CN101909985 A CN 101909985A
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The invention relates to a propulsive system for a maritime vessel (1 ), the system comprising an oscillating or transversely translating sealing member (5) provided in the hull of a maritime vessel. The sealing member (5) is possibly connected to an oscillating power source and possibly connected to propulsive elements (4). The sealing member (5) is slide ably connected to the hull (2) allowing the sealing member to travel in multiple directions. The sealing member (5) covers the opening in the hull (3) and the opening in the hull will at any time lie within the area covered by oscillating sealing member (5). Sealing means (10) are provided for sealing the periphery of the opening in the hull.

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Be used for the sealing that fin keel advances
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of propulsion system that is used for marine vessel, wherein, the propelling unit of employing comprise flap, the fin or the fin keel of side travel or swing.
According to an aspect, the present invention relates to a kind of boats and ships, these boats and ships comprise the hull with opening, propulsion system is passed this opening at least in part and is extended.Propulsion system comprises at least one side travel or swing sealing element, and the sealing parts are arranged in the hull of boats and ships.
Sealing element has in the face of part of boats and ships in-to-in with back to another part of boats and ships in-to-in.
Propelling unit is from swing or the side travel sealing element, partly extend from the described in-to-in back to boats and ships.
Support allows swing or side travel sealing element to move in hull or outside the hull.
Sealing element is connected on the hull slidably by anchor fitting, allows these parts to advance on two or more directions.
It must be understood that the hull of ship holds swing or side travel system, this swing or side travel system comprise whole necessary technology measures.
What have realized that is, compares with existing boats and ships, and by the swing of fin, fish and marine mammal move in water with higher propulsion coefficient and turn to.
So far also in boats and ships, do not implement technical equivalences mode for the fin propelling.
The present invention is based on the combination that a kind of periodic translation is moved and possible a kind of periodic rotary is moved of one or several fin keel of ship below and realizes the effective and exercisable important practical element of flapping and advancing.
The hunting motion of fish tail can be simulated and produce to the perhaps rotation by fin perhaps as about the situation of the fish of marine mammal and tuna class, by at least a periodicity translation of tail fin and a kind of combination of periodic rotary.
Now, almost every kind of marine equipment regardless of its size, running velocity and purposes, is all advanced by one or more rotation propulsion elements.
For example the propulsion element of screw propeller, nozzle (jet), duckpeller (ducted propeller) or jet propeller (pump jet) is around their rotational.For bigger boats and ships, screw propeller rotates with the speed of about 50-500rpm.
Screw propeller is designed meticulously for their concrete purposes.
For the designer, an important goal is restriction boats and ships overall fuel consumption.This is by realizing for example the well-designed of Several Parameters such as hull form, propelling unit and propulsion element.
The efficient of current most of effective helix angle oars seldom surpasses 80%.In fact, the efficient of 30-70% generally all is accepted, and this causes energy supply equipment unnecessarily big and cause the increase of consumption of fuel.
Therefore, consider above-mentioned inconvenience, fully exercisable, improved, technical requirements is low but in the water that efficient is high the serviceability of propulsion system be obvious.
Background technology
Propelling by means of swing or side travel fin keel has attracting feature, as than rotating high efficient and intrinsic the turning to property of screw propeller, it has been eliminated for the needs of the yaw rudder that sets up separately and this relevant cost and relevant integrity problem that yaw rudder had that sets up separately; In addition, it has vacateed the volume in the hull, to be used to increase the goods saturation.By low impact loss, low dynaflow loss due to friction, lower generation drag losses and hull originally on one's body lower drag realize greater efficiency, and make the consumption of fuel of primary mover lower, installation power is lower, or for identical installation tractive power and consumption of fuel, can realize higher running velocity.
Comprise for the swing or the significant challenge of side travel fin keel: avoid big mechanical friction loss, and to provide can with rotate screw propeller reliability and safety relatively.
The US Patent No 5,401,196 (TRIANTAFYLLOU etc.) of publishing in March 28 nineteen ninety-five discloses the flap propulsion system of fin of a kind of employing.This patent-it has lectured a kind of system that utilizes at least one fin, discloses a kind of propulsion system, and wherein, fin is swung being on the horizontal direction with direction of ship travel, and swings rotationally around vertical axis.Preferably, according to this US Patent, propulsion system is made of a plurality of fins, and these fins are out of phase swung, and causes in that to be the thrust of propulsion element on the horizontal direction not remarkable with the navigation direction.
The principal character of the mechanical embodiments of disclosed propulsion system will be explained below in this US Patent.
Fig. 4 A, 4B, 5A, 5B and 5C illustrate the embodiment that is used for according to the fin propulsion system of this US Patent.Propulsion system is made of two fins (10), and each fin is through axle (34), be connected on the bench board (40) by the slit in the rear section of hull (30) (36).The scope in slit (36), as can be seeing among Fig. 4 A and for example by arrow (38) illustrate like that, greater than the maximum relief intensity of the total that is used for fin.As can see among Fig. 4 B the most clearly, each bench board (40) has two or more wheels or roller (42), these wheels or roller (42) are installed on the underside of forward and are installed on the downside of rear portion, in this underside of forward and rear portion downside, travel in wheel or the roller respective carter (44) on being installed to hull (32).Thereby, bench board (40) and be attached on it fin (10) along an axis (38) on both direction all freely the motion, and be fixed on what its direction in office and avoid the motion.Therefore, work by a plurality of slits (36) that are provided with in hull (32) according to the mechanism of this US Patent, each slit and boats and ships navigate by water direction forward and are laterally, and the extensibility of slit (36) is above the cross motion of fin.Each fin keel also under power around rotational, these axis are provided so that rotation influences the sense of motion angulation of fin and ship significantly.
So far the practical application of this patent in the propelling of boats and ships of seeing is limited.
US Patent No 6,877,692 B2 (Liu) that publish on April 12nd, 2005 disclose a kind of propulsion system that is used for Submarine.This patent has been lectured the propelling based on " thuni-form " motion of tab member.Tab member be installed on the hull with carry out toward each other and away from oscillating traverse motion, travel forward owing to the compression of water between each tab member produces.This patent does not have to lecture the application of the fin keel propelling that is used for above water craft.
US 6,022,249 A (Ketterman) that publish on February 8th, 2000 have lectured a kind of watercraft, and this watercraft comprises hull, and this hull has the propelling unit of extending below floating line.Propelling unit comprises a pair of slapping plate, and each slapping plate is suitable for swinging by curved path on substantial transverse direction to dimension with respect to the central longitudinal of watercraft.This device operationally is associated with propelling unit, is used for input force is applied on the propelling unit.Slapping plate reverses to form the angle of attack, and being used for provides forward thrust with respect to vertical dimension of watercraft, all moves on both direction along curved path simultaneously.
DE 4,212,920 A1 (Erich) that publish on October 21st, 1993 have lectured a kind of manpower driving system that is used for catamaran, and wherein this system uses the flexible fin keel that is positioned between each hull.Fin keel has pivot at their place, anterior end, allows limited motion.Each fin keel is arranged to a front at another, and be installed in the rocking bar beam that hangs from the flexible rubber band on lower extension.
WO 03/026954 A1 (Inocean) that publishes on April 3rd, 2003 proposes a kind of system, and the sinusoidal figure of this system's utilization moves and advances or energy recovery.This system comprises a plurality of rigidity hull elements, and these rigidity hull elements in a row arrange, and connected to each other rotationally, is used for rotating around the parallel rotation axis of vertical dimension of passing the hull element rows.This system also comprises and is used for making each hull element relative to each other and the running gear that rotates or as the running gear that is used to reclaim the energy that is produced by the hull element that relative to each other rotates.
WO 2006/038808 A1 (ClavisBiopropulsion) that publishes on April 13rd, 2006 proposes a kind of device, and this device comprises at least one side travel fin keel.This device comprises actuating and actuating device, and it allows the ground hunting motion of fin keel fundamental freedom.This device is operated by means of the pulse that is produced by actuating device, and a lot of circulations and spring are used for storing the pulsation energy that is provided by actuating device.
Summary of the invention
An object of the present invention is to found a kind of propulsion system, but this propulsion system will improve the whole efficiency of marine propuision system with operating mode generally.This purpose realizes that by allowing boats and ships to advance by means of the side travel propelling unit this side travel propelling unit extends through an opening, and this opening is covered by swing or side travel sealing element.
Another object of the present invention is to found a kind of propulsive mechanism, the above disclosed known fin of flapping of this propulsive mechanism utilization, yet, according to the present invention, but propose a kind of operating system, but should operating system bring difference contribution and the advantage that is better than prior art, wherein, the part of the hull of boats and ships is provided with opening, and this opening is for good and all covered by the part of sealing element, causes effectively separating between the inside of overboard environment and ship.This separation has reduced the part of the mechanism that need operate and has reduced viscosity loss thus in water, and has improved processing safety.
A huge difficult problem that is not always solved is up to now: do not cause remarkable mechanical friction loss, do not cause remarkable fluid drag and do not sacrifice reliability and safely system is sealed.
Because gear has very big configuration flexibility, and owing to consider the size of ship thereby the very big fact that waits of size of the opening in hull, the sealing of system is debatable.
The power that produces on the surface that is covered by sealing element is very big, and with the high moving velocity (this moving velocity reaches 10m/s easily) of swing or side travel sealing element, is tangible for the needs of the sealing system of uniqueness.
According to an embodiment, swing or side travel sealing element are delivered to propelling unit with the major part of thrust power.
According to an embodiment, swing or side travel sealing element are not delivered to propelling unit with the major part of thrust power, and the structure that sets up separately in hull to move, so that drive propelling unit with the roughly the same mode of the motion of sealing element.Sealing element is connected on the propelling unit by attaching parts or is connected on its part, and this attaching parts allows at least a rotation on both direction.
According to an embodiment, swing or side travel sealing element are as the support and the director element of propelling unit.
According to an embodiment, propelling unit constitutes at least one fin.
According to an embodiment, propelling unit can pivot around axis, this axis and the surperficial approximate vertical of the hull of the position of opening in hull or quadrature roughly.
According to an embodiment, on the outside of hull or inboard, be provided with sight shield or backplate.
According to an embodiment, be used for the peripheral region that the leak free device is arranged on the opening of hull.
According to an embodiment, be used for the leak free device and be at least partially disposed on swing or side travel sealing element.
According to an embodiment, be used for the leak free device and constitute two parts sealing, wherein, first's sealing be used to seal the sealing parts in the face of boats and ships in-to-in part, and the second portion sealing be used to seal the sealing parts back to boats and ships in-to-in part.
According to an embodiment, be used for the leak free device and comprise conduit, these conduits allow pressure medium near sealing surfaces.
According to an embodiment, first's sealing is provided with the slit, and these slits allow the axis deflection of sealing around it.
According to an embodiment, the second portion sealing is provided with flexible stent, and this flexible stent is positioned on the plate, allows the axis deflection of sealing around it.
According to another aspect, the present invention relates to a kind of by cover in the hull opening and to propulsion system leak free method in addition, the device that is used to advance extends from this opening, covers this opening by means of running through described swing of instruction of the present invention or side travel sealing element.
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Fig. 1 represents the principle sectional side view of boats and ships, and these boats and ships comprise according to propulsive mechanism of the present invention.
Fig. 2 represents the principle birds-eye view of boats and ships, and these boats and ships comprise propulsive mechanism, and this propulsive mechanism comprises according to sealing element of the present invention.
Fig. 3 represents the principle sectional side view of propulsion system, and this propulsion system comprises sealing element.
Fig. 4 represents to be used for example of leak free of sealing element of the present invention.
The specific embodiment
According to the present invention, at least one swing or side travel sealing element (5) are arranged in the hull (2) of boats and ships (1).
The swing undulatory motion of sealing element (5) comes from according at least one the pendulous device in following examples:
I) sealing element (5) swing and/or move by means of propelling unit (4) or its part.In this embodiment, sealing element (5) is followed propelling unit (4), and does not have thrust power to be delivered to propelling unit (4) from sealing element (5).
II) sealing element (5) is connected on swing and/or the mobile device, and thrust power is delivered to propelling unit (4) or its part.In this embodiment, sealing element (5) drives propelling unit (4).
In any embodiment, sealing element (5) can be used as or can be not as the support and the director element of propelling unit (4).
The major part of thrust power is not delivered among the embodiment of propelling unit (4) in swing or side travel sealing element (5), the structure that sets up separately (16) in hull (2) to move, so that drive propelling unit (4) with the roughly the same mode of the motion of sealing element (5).
Sealing element (5) is connected on propelling unit or its part by attaching parts, and this attaching parts allows at least a rotation on both direction; Yet attaching parts also can have bigger degree of freedom.
Sealing element (5) is slidably mounted in the inboard or the outside of hull (2), allows parts (5) to advance on a plurality of directions.Accompanying drawing illustrates, and the motion of two sealing elements is straight lines, and parallel to each other, yet motion not parallel in the motion of each parts or each parts is among the embodiment of arc, and system will confirm useful equally.
Preferably, sealing element (5) is manufactured into integral part or interconnecting parts, and its form is with the steel plate material of dead-soft steel, high strength steel, corrosion-resistant steel production or such as the plastics of strengthening with fiber or any other the suitable material with the metal of fiber reinforcement.
And sealing element can for example be used the hollow slab or even the celludar construction of non-steel material manufacture by any suitable profile manufacturing.
Hull (2) is provided with at least one opening (3).Sealing element (5) must guarantee: during the fluctuating/hunting motion of these parts, opening in hull (2) will not be exposed, in other words: these parts should add (laterally) cross motion of sealing element (5) greater than the lateral length of the opening in hull (2), in other words: in normal working conditions, the opening in hull (2) keeps sealed parts (5) to cover.The outer lateral in inswept zone is illustrated by (9) on Fig. 2.
In a preferred embodiment, swing or side travel sealing element (5) are roughly concordant with the outside of the coverboard of hull, so that keep best hydrodynamic performance.
In certain embodiments, on the inboard of hull or the outside, sight shield is set or backplate will be useful.Sight shield or backplate will be optimized the current by system, therefore reduce resistance and interference for the water that flows through system.And sight shield or backplate also can play sealing element.
Embodiment with reference to the accompanying drawings illustrates the port and starboard propulsion system, and these propulsion systems are included in the sealing element of longitudinal direction upper offset (offset).Boats and ships can be built as making propulsion system that these boats and ships had generally or partly to be juxtaposed or longitudinally one be arranged in another front.Comprise that propulsive mechanism according to sealing element of the present invention never is constrained to a kind of structure and is higher than another kind of structure.
In order to simulate the motion of fish tail, may need to be provided with a kind of device, this device can make propelling unit (4) pivot or influence its pivot around the axis of propelling unit at least in part.Propelling unit can be centered around the surperficial approximate vertical of the position of the opening in the hull and hull or roughly quadrature axis and pivot.Can adopt several different layouts, for example electric or HM Hydraulic Motor, power cylinder, pure mechanical linkage and spring or the like are realized pivoting.Sealing element can hold the device of the pivot that is used for propelling unit in certain embodiments.
The sealing of sealing element
Propose to be applicable to sealing system (10) below, although system of the present invention never is limited to the sealing system of proposition according to propulsion system of the present invention.
Sealing system can comprise the collar, and the sealing element that these collars are used for being sealed in around the nest hole of propelling unit passes the zone.
Sealing system also can play the carrying that is used for sealing element (5) and the effect of power absorption plant.
Sealing system can be stood by in the test that each parts brought of sliding and rotating on a plurality of directions and in wide speed range.
Sealing employing two parts seal and carry out, and this two parts sealing also can be used as bogey, and this bogey allows the crooked slightly and inclination of sealing element (5).
First's sealing (11) is with first side (6) sealing of sealing element (5), and second portion sealing (12) is with second side (7) sealing of sealing element (5).
First sealing (11) seals against the part of sealing element, and this part is in the face of the inside of boats and ships (6).Sealing for example receives and seals the power that (12) are applied to inside directive force, the propulsive force on the sealing element and come from environment from second portion.First's sealing (11) is provided with slit (14), and these slits (14) allow the axis deflection of sealing around it, and by this deflection, expection can make hull and sealing element (5) move and deflection.
Second portion sealing (12) is as external support and sealing.It can be installed into makes its tiltable, and maintenance parallels with sealing element (5); In this case, by plate flexible-it is installed on this plate, itself plays the effect of the flexible wall of pressure chamber.
Be used for the leak free device and can be at least partially disposed on swing or side travel sealing element.
When system was not movable, sealing can be isolated system statically.Static sealing can be realized that this discrete elastomeric chamber can be placed under the pressure by discrete elastomeric chamber.
Sealing member has the material manufacture of flexural properties by for example corrosion-resistant steel, bronze, steel, FRP, elastic body or the like, so that sealing member can the deflection of limited ground.
Sealing member can be installed on the flexible stent on the plate (15), so that sealing member can be around their axis deflection.
Sealing member can be configured to have conduit (13) pressurization and/or the hydrostatic sealing member, these conduits (13) allow pressure medium near sealing surfaces.
The leak free some parts can be provided with slit (14), and these slits (14) allow the axis deflection of sealing around it.This will provide further flexible, and this flexible permission sealing and bearing system are absorbed in the hull respectively and the deflection in sealing element (5).
Hereinbefore, supposed that propulsion system is used as the part of propulsion system in the water, and this is considered advantageous applications of the present invention, yet the present invention can also be used to advancing the ships and light boats in other fluid except water (being liquid or gas).And although supposed with motor or driving engine for preferred embodiment and to drive boats and ships, the present invention also can be advantageously utilised in the manpower system.Compare with current available systems, the available littler effort of such device provides motion faster, and these systems are used for advancing swimmer or diver, and without CD-ROM drive motor.
Should be emphasized that where used in this disclosure, term " comprises " and is used for the existence of feature, integral body, step or element that regulation narrates, but do not get rid of the existence or the adding of one or more further features, integral body, step, element or its combination.

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1. a marine ships (1) comprises at least one hull (2), and this hull (2) has at least one opening (3) and a propulsion system, and this propulsion system extends through described at least one opening (3) at least in part, and described propulsion system comprises:
-at least one swing or side travel sealing element (5), be arranged in the described hull (2) of described boats and ships (1), described sealing element (5) has in the face of the part of in-to-in (6) of described boats and ships with back to described in-to-in another part (7) of described boats and ships (1)
-propelling unit (4) is extended from the described in-to-in another part (7) back to described boats and ships from described swing or side travel sealing element (5),
-support (8) allows described swing or side travel sealing element (5) in described hull (2) inboard or movement outside,
It is characterized in that described at least one opening (3) is covered by described swing or side travel sealing element (5).
2. propulsion system according to claim 1, wherein, described swing or side travel sealing element (5) are delivered to described propelling unit (4) with the major part of thrust power.
3. propulsion system according to claim 1, wherein, described swing or side travel sealing element (5) are not delivered to described propelling unit (4) with the major part of thrust power, and wherein, the structure that sets up separately (16) in described hull (2) to move with the roughly the same mode of the motion of described sealing element (5), so that drive described propelling unit (4), described sealing element (5) is connected to described propelling unit (4) by attaching parts and goes up or be connected on its part, and this attaching parts allows at least a rotation on both direction.
4. propulsion system according to claim 1, wherein, described swing or side travel sealing element (5) are as the support and the director element of described propelling unit (4).
5. propulsion system according to claim 1, wherein, described propelling unit (4) constitutes at least one fin (4).
6. propulsion system according to claim 1, wherein, described propelling unit can pivot around axis, this axis and the surperficial approximate vertical of the described hull (2) of the position of described opening (3) in described hull (2) or quadrature roughly.
7. propulsion system according to claim 1 wherein, is provided with sight shield or backplate on the outside of described hull (2) or inboard.
8. propulsion system according to claim 1 wherein, is used for the peripheral region that leak free device (10) is arranged on the described opening (3) of described hull (2).
9. propulsion system according to claim 1 wherein, is used for the leak free device and is at least partially disposed on described swing or side travel sealing element (5).
10. according to Claim 8 or 9 described propulsion systems, wherein, the described leak free device that is used for constitutes two parts sealing, wherein, first's sealing (11) is used to seal the described in-to-in part (6) in the face of described boats and ships of described sealing element (5), and second portion sealing (12) is used to seal the described in-to-in part back to described hull (2) of described sealing element (5).
11. propulsion system according to claim 10, wherein, described sealing arrangement comprises conduit (13), and these conduits (13) allow pressure medium near sealing surfaces.
12. propulsion system according to claim 10, wherein, described first's sealing (11) is provided with slit (14), and these slits (14) allow the axis deflection of sealing around it.
13. propulsion system according to claim 10, wherein, second portion sealing (13) is provided with flexible stent, and this flexible stent is installed on the plate (15), allows the axis deflection of sealing around it.
14. one kind is carried out the leak free method to each the described propulsion system in requiring according to aforesaid right, wherein, described at least one opening (3) is covered by described swing or side travel sealing element (5).
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