EP2546139A1 - Equipement de plongée - Google Patents

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EP2546139A1
EP2546139A1 EP20120004608 EP12004608A EP2546139A1 EP 2546139 A1 EP2546139 A1 EP 2546139A1 EP 20120004608 EP20120004608 EP 20120004608 EP 12004608 A EP12004608 A EP 12004608A EP 2546139 A1 EP2546139 A1 EP 2546139A1
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Heinz-Hermann Meyer
Isabel Hubein
Riccardo Luessenhop
Janett Schulz
Johan Forsslund
Rudolf Moeller
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63C—LAUNCHING, HAULING-OUT, OR DRY-DOCKING OF VESSELS; LIFE-SAVING IN WATER; EQUIPMENT FOR DWELLING OR WORKING UNDER WATER; MEANS FOR SALVAGING OR SEARCHING FOR UNDERWATER OBJECTS
    • B63C11/00—Equipment for dwelling or working underwater; Means for searching for underwater objects
    • B63C11/02—Divers' equipment
    • B63C11/04—Resilient suits
    • B63C11/08—Control of air pressure within suit, e.g. for controlling buoyancy ; Buoyancy compensator vests, or the like
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63C—LAUNCHING, HAULING-OUT, OR DRY-DOCKING OF VESSELS; LIFE-SAVING IN WATER; EQUIPMENT FOR DWELLING OR WORKING UNDER WATER; MEANS FOR SALVAGING OR SEARCHING FOR UNDERWATER OBJECTS
    • B63C11/00—Equipment for dwelling or working underwater; Means for searching for underwater objects
    • B63C11/02—Divers' equipment
    • B63C11/18—Air supply
    • B63C11/22—Air supply carried by diver
    • B63C11/2245—With provisions for connection to a buoyancy compensator

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  • the invention relates to diving equipment comprising a compressed air source communicating with a respirator and an inflatable vest over which buoyancy can be balanced by allowing the vest to be inflated in normal operation to the inflator or to an air outlet is, wherein a pneumatic control device is provided with a control valve which activates the pneumatic control device in normal operation in response to a surrounding water pressure, so that safety-relevant parameters can be monitored via the control device and emergency measures can be introduced.
  • Modern diving equipment usually includes a BCD, also called BCD (Buoyancy Control Device), which also serves as a support frame for a compressed air cylinder diving equipment and with the help of the diver at any depth by blowing or discharging air exactly regulate his buoyancy and balance.
  • BCD Buoyancy Control Device
  • a plurality of valves are provided in a BCD, which are provided for controlling the blowing or discharging of air into an air bubble of the vest and often also for the initiation of emergency measures. These emergency measures are initiated, for example, in the case of falling below a defined amount of compressed air in the compressed air cylinder or lack of breathing activity of the diver.
  • Diving equipment which consists of a buoyancy compensator and a compressed air source in the form of a compressed air cylinder, and a valve assembly for controlling a compressed air supply from the compressed air cylinder to Tarjacket is composed.
  • the buoyancy compensates buoyancy of a diver by inflating the vest in normal operation, either through the compressed air cylinder or by releasing compressed air from the vest.
  • the valve arrangement in this case comprises a pneumatic control device, by means of which can be transferred from the normal operation in an emergency operation.
  • the pneumatic control device has a control valve which activates the control device as a function of an ambient water pressure.
  • the pneumatic control device has a time control unit, which is composed of a diaphragm valve and delay means.
  • the diaphragm valve Upon activation of the control device via the control valve, the diaphragm valve is acted upon with compressed air from the compressed air cylinder and forwards the compressed air via a first working line to the delay means. If a breath is now taken by the diver on the breathing apparatus, the compressed air conducted to the diaphragm valve is continued via a second working line to the delay means, wherein the pressure supply via the second working line causes a reset of the delay means.
  • the delay means actuates an emergency valve via a control line, which thereby connects the vest to the compressed air cylinder and thus forces it to inflate.
  • the delay means actuates an emergency valve via a control line, which thereby connects the vest to the compressed air cylinder and thus forces it to inflate.
  • the supposedly non-breathing diver is then transported back to the water surface.
  • diving equipment includes a compressed air source communicating with a respirator and also has an inflatable vest over which buoyancy can be balanced by operating the vest in normal operation with the compressed air source for inflation or with an outlet for venting air is connected.
  • a pneumatic control device with a control valve provided, which activates the pneumatic control device in normal operation in response to a surrounding water pressure, so that safety-related parameters monitored by the control device and, where appropriate, emergency measures can be initiated.
  • an activation of the pneumatic control device takes place, in particular, by the control valve located in front of it, by the control valve setting the surrounding water pressure in relation to a reference pressure, preferably the atmospheric pressure, and connecting the control device to the compressed air source when the reference pressure is exceeded.
  • the invention now includes the technical teaching that the pneumatic control device is connected to a test device, via which a functional capability of the pneumatic control device can be checked.
  • a further device of the diving equipment is provided, via which a proper function of the control device can be established and thus the monitoring of the safety-relevant parameters and a possible initiation of emergency measures can be ensured.
  • Such a configuration has the advantage that the diver is thereby given the opportunity to monitor the proper function of the pneumatic control device of his equipment, so that safety-critical situations can be avoided.
  • a proper operation of a respiratory monitoring function of the control device can be checked, which initiates emergency measures in the form of inflation of the vest in the absence of respiratory activity after expiry of a time window defined by a time control unit, whereby the diver can be transported back to the water surface.
  • the test device may comprise functional elements for checking the functionality of the pneumatic control device in advance of a dive, functional elements for determining proper operation of the control device during diving, or a combination of both.
  • the test device comprises a pre-test valve, in its normal position in normal operation, a control line of the control valve is acted upon by the surrounding water pressure.
  • Pre-test valve are transferred in a test operation in an operating position in which the control line of the control valve is connected to the compressed air source and thus a transfer of the control valve is forced into an actuating position. In this operating position then the pneumatic control device is connected to the compressed air source.
  • the pretesting valve has an actuating element, via which the pretesting valve can be transferred into the actuating position counter to a spring element.
  • the actuating element can be designed here as a push button, switch or the like.
  • the actuating element can be actuated only via a corresponding tool, which prevents an accidental triggering, for example when transporting the diving equipment, can occur.
  • the test device comprises a display element, which communicates with the control valve and via which an actuating position of the control valve can be displayed.
  • the display element is designed as a piston displaceably guided in a cylinder housing, wherein the piston is provided on one end side with a piston rod, whereas the piston on another, opposite end side via a control line can be acted upon with pressure and converted into an ad position, in which the piston rod protrudes through the cylinder housing.
  • the control line is connected to an outgoing from the control valve working line, which is coupled in the operating position of the control valve to the pressure source.
  • the control line leading to the cylinder housing is pressurized as soon as the control valve has been moved to the actuating position, so that the piston is displaced into the display position and the piston rod projects beyond the cylinder housing. In this position, the piston rod can then be felt by the diver, so that it can check an activation of the pneumatic control device even in poor visibility.
  • a line branches off from the cylinder housing on the end face of the piston provided with the piston rod, which line is in communication with the vest.
  • the sole figure shows a block diagram of a diving equipment according to a preferred embodiment of the invention.
  • this diving equipment comprises a compressed air source 1 in the form of a compressed air cylinder, which supplies compressed air to a respirator, which is not further described here, so that a diver is supplied with breathing air under water can.
  • an inflatable vest 2 is provided which is provided with a - also not shown here - bubble, which can either be inflated by the compressed air source 1 with compressed air or discharged from the air.
  • a buoyancy of the diver can be compensated by the vest 2 by a rise and by discharging air, a drop is represented by supplying a corresponding amount of air.
  • the supply and discharge of air into the vest 2 is here controlled by intermediate valves in the form of an inflation valve 3 and a drain valve 4, which can be actuated respectively via an associated actuator 5 and 6 by the diver, said adjusting elements.
  • 5 and 6 in the present case are each designed as push buttons.
  • Both the inflation valve 3 and the drain valve 4 are designed as 2/2-way valves and are biased via an associated spring in the basic position shown here, from which they can be moved by the respective associated actuator 5 and 6 in an operating position.
  • the inflation valve 3 connects in this operating position then the compressed air source 1 with the vest 2, so that the vest 2 is inflated by supplying compressed air.
  • the vest 2 is connected to a mouthpiece 7, via which compressed air from the vest 2 escape into the environment and thus a discharge of compressed air from the vest 2 can be displayed.
  • a discharge of compressed air from the vest 2 can be displayed.
  • the diver can balance his buoyancy according to the filling or emptying of the vest 2.
  • the diving equipment according to the invention has a pneumatic control device 8, by which safety-relevant parameters of the diving equipment are monitored and targeted emergency measures can be initiated.
  • the control device 8 monitors a breathing activity of the diver on the breathing apparatus, in the absence of a breathing activity of the diver goes into emergency operation and forced inflation of the vest 2, so that the diver is transported as a result of inflation to the water surface.
  • the control device 8 has an emergency valve 9, which in the present case is also designed as a 2/2-way valve and in an operating position, the compressed air source 1 connects directly to the vest 2, so that a Inflating the vest 2 is done.
  • this connection is interrupted, wherein the emergency valve 9 is biased by an associated spring element and by pressurization by means of a control line 10 in this basic position.
  • the control line 10 is in this case supplied by a pressure port 11 with the currently surrounding water pressure.
  • the emergency valve 9 can be moved and held by corresponding pressure in two further control lines 12 and 13 in the operating position, wherein the control line 12 is in communication with a time control unit 14, while the control line 13 to the drain side of the emergency valve 9 and the supply to the vest 2 is connected.
  • a pressure in the control line 12 must exceed a pressure in the control line 10 and a pressure caused by the spring element. If the emergency valve 9 is then once moved into the actuation position, it is held in this position by the control line 13 due to the additional pressure then acting via the control line 13.
  • the time control unit 14 By the time control unit 14, a time window is defined, after which elapse and in the absence of breathing activity of the diver, the control line 12 is acted upon by a suitable opening for the emergency valve 9 pressure.
  • the time control unit 14 comprises a control volume 15, which is filled continuously from an activation of the control device 8 via a filling panel 16 with pressurized air, wherein the control volume 15 is connected to the control line 12 of the emergency valve 9. From reaching a certain pressure in the control volume 15 while an actuating pressure is shown, which results in a displacement of the emergency valve 9 in the operating position.
  • an emptying valve 17 is also provided, which is designed as a 2/2-way valve and is moved in respiratory activity of the diver and a concomitant pressure drop in the line system connected to the compressed air source 1 from the illustrated basic position into an actuating position. In this operating position, the control volume 15 is then emptied and the filling process starts again.
  • a time range can be defined according to the choice of a suitable volume of the control volume 15 and a suitable throttling on the Greblende 16, after its expiry an emergency operation by the control device 8 by driving the emergency valve 9 is initiated.
  • control device 8 has a control valve 18, which activates the control device 8 as a function of the currently surrounding water pressure.
  • the control valve 18 is connected in normal operation on the one hand via a control line 19 to the pressure port 11 and is thus acted upon via this control line 19 with the surrounding water pressure.
  • the control valve 18 is coupled via a reference line 20 with a reference volume 21, in which a reference pressure, in this case the atmospheric pressure prevails.
  • the present as a 2/2-way valve designed control valve 18 separates the underlying time control unit 14 in the illustrated basic position of a supply line 22, the control valve 18 but then connects in an operating position this supply line 22 to the time control unit 14, as soon as the surrounding water pressure in the pressure Reference volume 21 and has exceeded a pressure represented by a spring element of the control valve 18.
  • the supply line 22 is connected to the compressed air source 1, so that in the operating position of the control valve 18 compressed air flows to the filler panel 16 of the time control unit 14. Consequently, therefore, the control device 8 is activated by the control valve 18 from reaching a defined water depth.
  • the diving equipment now also includes a testing device 23, via which a functionality of the control device 8 and thus a proper monitoring of safety-related parameters of the diving equipment can be tested.
  • This test device 23 in this case has a pre-test valve 24, which is in the present case designed as a 3/2-way valve and in normal operation in the illustrated basic position, the control line 19 of the control valve 18 with the surrounding water pressure leading pressure port 11 connects. Accordingly, in the initial position of the pre-test valve 24, as already described above, the control valve 8 activates the control device 8 when the pressure in the reference volume 21 is exceeded by the surrounding water pressure.
  • the pretesting valve 24 can be deliberately transferred into an actuated position against a spring element via an actuating element 25 in the form of a pushbutton, thereby initiating a test operation in which the control line 19 of the control valve 18 is connected by the pretesting valve 24 to a pressure line 26.
  • This pressure line 26 is coupled to the compressed air source 1, so that the control valve 18 is supplied on the control side with compressed air and thus a movement of the control valve 18 is forced into the operating position.
  • the control device 8 is activated so that the respiratory monitoring function of Kontrolli Vietnamese 8 regardless of the depth of water starts.
  • the diver can check by operating the actuator 25 before the dive, whether the control device 8 and in particular the respiratory monitoring function with the time control unit 14 work properly.
  • the actuator 25 is designed as a normal push button.
  • the actuating element 25 can also be configured such that its actuation is possible only via a tool corresponding thereto. In this way it can be prevented that the pre-scan valve 25 is actuated unintentionally, for example during transport of the diving equipment, and as a result an unwanted activation of the respiratory monitoring function of the control device 8 occurs.
  • the test device 23 also has a display element 27, which is formed by a piston 29 displaceably guided in a cylinder housing 28.
  • the piston 29 is provided at one end face with a piston rod 30 which is guided at a side facing away from the piston 29 in a - not shown here - through bore of the cylinder housing 28 and depending on the position of the piston 29 in the cylinder housing 28 through the cylinder housing 28 protrudes through.
  • the piston 29 is biased by a spring element in the apparent from the single figure basic position.
  • a control line 31 opens into the cylinder housing 28, which branches off from an outgoing from the control valve 18 and leading to the filler panel 16 working line.
  • the piston 29 is pressurized in the operating position of the control valve 18 and an associated flow of compressed air via the control valve 18 and subsequently moved against the spring element from the position shown in an ad position in which the piston rod 30 then on the outside over the cylinder housing 28 projects. Accordingly, the diver can feel underwater during diving and also in poor visibility conditions that the control device 8 has been activated via the control valve 18.

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WO2007058615A1 (fr) 2005-11-18 2007-05-24 Consensum As Dispositif de securite, equipement de plongee et procede de securite pour la plongee avec scaphandre autonome
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