RU2690121C1 - Individual rescue device and method of its operation - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: shipbuilding.SUBSTANCE: invention relates to shipbuilding, namely to port and onboard equipment in the form of individual rescue swimming devices intended for people rescue. Individual rescue swimming device includes two side parts hingedly connected, and has hinged navigation system, button for activation of opening of side parts relative to hinge, activator of gas filling of raft, one detachable lower part, which is fixed in assembled state to side parts on connection "dovetail" and containing assembled ballast bag, detachable unit with engine and energy carrier, inflatable raft, seat with backrest and armrests, retaining belt. For operation of individual rescue craft, individual rescue craft is lowered to water. Person's location is determined and the approach of the rescue craft to the person is carried out using the navigation and search system. Disclosing of the swimming device and separation into three parts is carried out after pressing the activation activation button, after which the lock is opened, holding the sides, which diverges in sides relative to hinge, lower part is released, which goes down due to its own weight. Part of the ballast bag is opened, the person swims inside the rescue swimming device, after which the row is successively inflated, at which part of the raft is inflated, which includes a seat with a backrest, an armrest. Armrest removes a person held back by a belt relative to the seat, back and up, after which the entire raft is continuously inflated.EFFECT: achieving lightness and reducing time when rescuing a person falling overboard, as well as providing thermal protection and survival means.17 cl, 9 dwg

Description

The technical field to which the invention relates.

The claimed invention relates to the field of shipbuilding, namely to the port and on-board equipment in the form of individual rescue swimming vehicles of the dumped type, designed to rescue people who are overboard and in distress, with the possibility of using as search and rescue equipment.

Individual rescue swimming means can be used on various types of water transport, stationary structures, can be used to rescue a person who has entered the water in the waters of the world ocean, inland waters, near the coast.

The level of technology

From the prior art a large number of life-saving appliances are known; various types of inflatable floating equipment, rafts and other types of ship-based life-saving equipment are most often encountered.

A substantial part of the world's oceans, constituting approximately 70% of the water shell of the Earth, as well as most of the inland waters belonging to the territories of individual states, have a temperature at which overcooling of the human body occurs in a short time.

Being in water without special means of thermal protection results in hypothermia, a violation of the thermal balance accompanied by a decrease in body temperature below normal values, which is caused by prolonged exposure to cold or immersion in cold water. It can be accompanied by the immobilization of the human body, can cause loss of consciousness, convulsions, acute violation of cerebral circulation.

At present, people who have fallen overboard often die because they are losing strength quickly due to hypothermia while in the water. It is obvious that in such situations a person is completely deprived of the opportunity to climb onto a life-saving device with the help of his own muscular strength and his chance of salvation becomes almost minimal.

In this regard, there is an objective need to create an individual rescue swimming tool, which, without requiring significant effort on the part of the victim, using a simple algorithm for opening and activating the gas filling mechanism, would ensure the possibility of saving a person and, in particular cases of execution, his further thermal protection.

The closest analogues can be considered:

1. Reddingsuitrusting, voorzien van een opblaasbaar vlot (rescue equipment equipped with an inflatable raft) NL 7210277 (A), international classification В63С 9/02; B63C 9/06; B63C 9/23; B64D 25/18; (IPC 1-7): B63 B 7/08; B64D 25/00, application number NL 19720010277 19720726. The presented analogue, like the claimed product, belongs to the same classes of the IPC, is used for the same purpose, namely, to save people who have fallen into the water and need help. (NL7210277 (A). Https://worldwide.espacenet.com/.

2. WATER RESCUE LIFT (Water Rescue Lifting) WO 2010017809 (A2), International Classification C63C 9/08, application number WO 2009DE01120 20090812.

The presented analogue, like the claimed product, is used for the same purpose, namely, it is intended for rescuing people who have fallen into the water and need help. At least one device case is in the water and has at least two chambers that are filled independently of each other. The first chamber system has supports that are at a distance from each other. The first chamber is filled when the rescue tool is in the water to keep the device on the surface. The second chamber has at least one lifting chamber located between the support chambers, can be filled after entering the water, in the unfilled state forms a sediment located under the surface of the water and flooded with water (WO 2010017809 (A2). Https: //worldwide.espacenet. com /).

3. Single liferaft 2550597 (C1) RU. Classes IPC В63С 9/04; B63C 9/06; B63B 7/08; В63С 9/20.

The presented analogue, like the claimed product, belongs to the same classes of the IPC, is used for the same purpose, namely, it is intended to save a person in a shipwreck. It is a lightweight, foam-filled, construction in the form of an inflatable boat.

The disadvantage of such a lifesaver can be considered the inability of a person in a stressful situation to get on such a swimsuit.

As a rule, a person, once in the water, is in the clothes or in a life jacket in an upright position, which makes it difficult for such a person to get on the rescue device due to its small size.

4. The rescue tool 2540034 (C1) RU, class IPC D63C 9/08 can be considered as an analogue of a thermal bag and an opened protective awning.

The invention relates to life-saving means, providing means of thermal protection of victims.

The main disadvantages of existing life-saving appliances are that they all require the use of considerable muscle force from a person in the water in order to climb the raft.

The man, being behind the ship, is in an emergency in a state of stress. Water is thermally neutral for a person with a temperature above 33-35 ° С, however in most areas even of warm seas the water temperature is lower. As a result, in most of the waters of the oceans in a fairly short period of time, inevitably, hypothermia occurs in the unprotected human body, which, when overboard, is not always provided with thermal protection. Such an emergency situation is especially dangerous in cold latitudes, in areas of the far north, when a person cannot use a life-saving tool due to hypothermia, immobilization, convulsions, or an acute violation of cerebral circulation caused by hypothermia.

Disclosure of the invention.

The objectives of the claimed invention is to develop such a design of an individual rescue swimming facility that would allow rescuing a person who got overboard the vessel, without using significant muscular strength, and also in particular cases could have thermal protection equipment.

In the particular case of execution, a rescue swimming facility can be used in latitudes with a hot climate, while the awning protects a person from aggressive sunlight.

The tasks are achieved due to the developed design of an individual rescue vessel, which eliminates the disadvantages of the above described previously created rescue vessel facilities.

The claimed solution is a compact individual rescue swimming tool with a simple disclosure algorithm in which a person finds himself on the surface not through the use of significant intrinsic muscular strength, but due to the energy of the gas-filling mechanism of the inflatable part of the craft, including the ability to provide thermal protection.

The main problem that the invention is intended to solve is the rescue of people who have fallen into the water, in situations where people often die due to the fact that they can not, sailing to the rescue raft, independently climb on it due to partial or complete immobilization caused by the onset hypothermia.

In the particular case, this rescue swimming tool can provide the possibility of putting thermal protection on a person after he is on the raft, as well as provide him with means of short-term heating and vital material means of survival.

The individual rescue swimming facility (Fig. 1, 2) in the assembled state consists of three main parts - two side parts (2), giving a positive buoyancy and one bottom (1), which in turn can optionally be attached an auxiliary detachable unit with an engine and energy carrier (3). The rescue swimming vehicle also includes a release activation button (11) located on the surface of the side parts (2), after pressing which the opening of the swimming vehicle takes place; the inflatable part of the rescue means with the gas-filling mechanism (4) located in the lower part (1) of FIG. 3, which, when opened and activated, form a raft holding a person to the surface; An optional navigation and search system (10) mounted on the top of the swimming vehicle at the hinge (9) of FIG. 1, 2, which allows you to search for a person caught in the water.

After the physical contact of the person with the rescue vehicle is established, the lock is opened inside the side parts (2) using the release activation button (11), after which they are moved apart to the hinge (9) and thereby release the dovetail mount (14) FIG. 1, 2, holding the lower part (1) with an optional detachable unit, engine and energy carrier (3). The lower part (1) goes down and, being held in the lower position by the expanding part of the ballast bag (5), forms together with the side parts (2) a part of the sphere, which allows a person in the water to swim inside the resulting rescue swimming means with legs and lean on the side portions (2) of FIG. 3, 4.

The rescue swimming facility in the partially opened state (FIG. 3-7) consists of the gas-activator of the raft (7) of FIG. 4, 6, when pressed, the gas-filling of the inflatable part of the rescue swimming vessel occurs; the inflatable part with the gas-filling mechanism (4) of FIG. 3, due to which the swimming facility is held on the surface of the ballast bag (5), creating a counterweight, preventing tilting of the swimming facility (Fig. 8, 9), seats (6) with the rear backrest (6.1) and armrests (6.2) of FIG. 5-8, which hold the seated person holding the strap (8) of FIG. 3, 6-8, thermal bag (13) of FIG. 8, providing thermal protection of the person, and in the particular case - his short-term heating.

After a person has swum inside a partially unfolded rescue boat with legs, he, using the raft gas filling activator (7), activates the sequential gas filling of the raft, in which part of the raft, including the seat (6) with backrest, is first inflated and the armrest (6.2) of FIG. 5, while the armrest retracts the person held relative to the seat (6) by the belt (8), backwards and upwards, excluding at the same time his being pinched by inflated parts of the raft (Fig. 5, 6). Then the whole raft is continuously inflated (Fig. 7), as a result, the person is on a raft above the surface of the water without the use of his own muscular strength.

The rescue swimming facility in the open state allows the use of a thermal bag (13) fixed on the bottom of the raft, an awning (15) of FIG. 9, which covers the entire structure of the life-saving craft and protects the person from the wind in cold latitudes and, from the sun's rays in latitudes with a hot climate.

In the particular case, the rescue swimming facility may have solar panels (12) located on the side portions of the claimed invention.

Brief Description of the Drawings:

FIG. 1 is a schematic depiction of an individual rescue boat in the assembled state. General form.

FIG. 2 is a schematic depiction of an individual rescue boat in the assembled state. Front view.

FIG. 3 is a schematic depiction of an individual rescue boat. Disclosure. General form.

FIG. 4 is a schematic depiction of an individual rescue boat. Disclosure. View from above.

FIG. 5 is a schematic depiction of an individual rescue boat with a seated person at the stage of partial raft opening. Side view.

FIG. 6 is a schematic depiction of an individual rescue boat with a seated person at the stage of partial opening of the raft. View from above.

FIG. 7 is a schematic depiction of an individual rescue craft at the stage of raft deployment with a person sitting. Side view.

FIG. 8 is a schematic depiction of an individual rescue boat in open form with a lying man in the thermal bag and an undisclosed windproof tent. Side view.

Fig. 9 is a schematic depiction of an individual rescue swimming facility in an opened form with a man lying in a thermal bag with a closed windproof tent. Side view.

Brief description of structural elements:

1. the lower part;

2. side parts;

3. detachable unit with engine and energy source;

4. inflatable part with gas filling mechanism;

5. ballast bag;

6. seat;

6.1 rear back;

6.2 armrests;

7. gas raft activator;

8. belt;

9. hinge;

10. navigation and search system;

11. button to activate the disclosure;

12. solar panels;

13. Thermal bag;

14. mount dovetail;

15. awning.

Principle of operation:

If the rescue device provided is equipped with an automatic search and rescue system, then when a person gets overboard the vessel, after the self-rescue system of the individual rescue vessel triggers, it, including using the navigation and search system (10) of FIG. 1, including by means of radio exchange systems with the victim, equipped in this case with a compact automatic identification system AIS, GPS / GLONASS global geo-positioning systems, video recognition systems, determines the location of a person who has got into the water and in need of assistance unit with an engine and energy carrier (3), swims to it,

In a separate embodiment, the search for the victim can be carried out using the remote control system of the rescue swimming facility.

As soon as a person who has got into the water comes into contact with the rescue swimming facility, after he has pressed the activation button (11) of FIG. 1, the swimming means is opened, which is divided into three parts, by means of a mechanical, spring, pneumatic, electromechanical or other drive.

In a separate embodiment, the opening of the rescue swimming facility can occur by remote control button activation of the disclosure (11) from the vessel or other known methods.

The opening and activation of the gas-filling of the rescue swimming vessel occurs sequentially in two stages as follows:

First stage:

After using the opening activation button (11), the lock opens, which holds the sides, the two side parts (2) diverge relative to the hinge (9) to the sides, forming a "horseshoe" (Fig. 3). Thus, the sidewalls release the “locking” of the lower part (1) to the dovetail mount (14), after which the lower part (1) due to its own weight goes down, while revealing part of the ballast bag (5) to which it attached and, after activating the gas-filling of the raft, forms, together with the ballast bag, a counterweight preventing the tipping of the rescue craft from tipping over.

The second stage is as follows:

After activation and opening of the rescue swimming craft, the person swims inside the horseshoe formed between the sides, and is kept afloat due to it, being in an upright position. A person winds his legs into the open part of the ballast bag (Fig. 3, 4), presses the gas-activator (7), previously located in the buried cavity between the sidewalls near the hinge (9).

Activation of the gas filling of the raft takes place after the victim presses the activator (7) using the standard gas filling system of the life raft.

In some cases, the activator (7) can be remotely pressed, for example, from the ship’s side using the remote control system or by any other known method.

After pressing and activating the gas-filling system, the rear backrest (6.1), part of the seat (6), side armrests (6.2), which serve to move the person backwards, begin to inflate.

When a person pulls back, a holding belt (8) is used, having a positive buoyancy.

The belt (8) provides for the possibility of loosening, holding, rigid fixation, can be undone at the discretion of the person.

After activation of the gas-filling system and full opening of the liferaft, the person is on the surface of the water and is securely held by the belt (8) (Fig. 6).

Separate versions suggest the possibility of the formation of an inclined back for ease of use.

A ballast bag (5) is formed in the lower part of the rescue means, which serves to prevent the rescue means from overturning. (Fig. 6)

In a separate embodiment for the heating of the victim and his further thermal protection, a system for opening a special thermal bag (13) (Fig. 8) may be provided, which may have a short-term electrical or chemical heating system.

A thermal bag can also have a valve or a hand pump to remove water that has got inside the swimming tool when a person is rescued.

The victim is fastened in a bag, which protects from water, wind, cold temperatures and from sunlight in hot latitudes (Fig. 8).

After these actions have been carried out, it is always possible for the victim to unfasten part of the thermal bag (13) and open the awning (17), protecting it from the wind in cold and from the sun in hot latitudes.

Inside the rescue ship can be vital material resources: food, first aid equipment, communications equipment.

Thus, using the claimed invention, the following technical result is achieved: the design of a compact individual rescue swimming facility with a simple disclosure algorithm allows rescuing a person who has gotten overboard of a vessel or other object in a manner in which a person finds himself above the surface of the water on the rescue means not due to own muscle strength, and due to the energy of the gas-filling mechanism of the inflatable part of the rescue swimming facility, with the possibility of providing Thermal protection and survival.

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1. Individual rescue swimming means, including two side parts connected by a hinge, characterized in that it has a navigation system installed on the hinge, has a button for activating the opening of the side parts relative to the hinge, located on the upper surface of the side parts, contains a gas-powered lower raft the part fastened in the assembled state to the side portions on the dovetail connection, and containing in the assembled state a ballast bag connecting it with the side portions and after their disclosure about the hinge, detachable unit with motor and energy source, an inflatable raft, comprising a gas filling mechanism seat with a backrest and armrests, the retaining strap. 2. Individual rescue swimming tool according to claim 1, characterized in that it has a thermal bag that provides thermal protection of the person. 3. Individual rescue swimming tool according to claim 1, characterized in that it has a thermal bag that provides short-term heating of a person, containing a valve or a manual pump to remove water. 4. Individual rescue swimming tool according to claim 1, characterized in that it has a protective awning. 5. Individual rescue swimming means according to claim 1, characterized in that it has solar panels located on the side parts of the individual rescue swimming means. 6. Individual rescue swimming tool according to claim 1, characterized in that it contains vital material resources: food, first aid equipment, communications equipment. 7. Individual rescue swimming tool according to claim 1, characterized in that it has the possibility of the formation of an inclined back for ease of use. 8. The method of operation of an individual rescue swimming means includes launching an individual rescue swimming craft into water, characterized in that the location of a person is determined using a navigation and search system, the rescue swimming facility is approached by a person using an engine and energy carrier unit and the division into three parts is carried out after pressing the activation button of the disclosure, after which the lock is opened, holding lateral sides that diverge relative to the hinge, the lower part is released, which goes down due to its own weight, part of the ballast bag opens, the person swims inside the rescue swimming facility, after which the sequential gas filling of the raft is activated, in which the seat with the backrest, the armrest, while the armrest retracts the person held by the belt relative to the seat backwards and upwards, after which it is continuously inflated into all raft 9. The method of operation of an individual rescue swimming facility of claim 8, wherein the individual rescue swimming vehicle performs an automatic search using a search and rescue system and a self-dumping system on the water. 10. The method of operation of an individual rescue swimming craft of claim 8, wherein the individual rescue swimming vehicle locates a person using radio communication systems with an injured person equipped with a compact automatic identification system AIS. 11. The method of operation of an individual rescue swimming craft of claim 8, wherein the individual rescue swimming vehicle locates a person using global GPS / GLONASSM geolocation systems. 12. The method of operation of an individual rescue swimming craft of claim 8, wherein the individual rescue swimming vehicle locates a person using video recognition systems. 13. The method of operation of an individual rescue swimming tool of claim 8, wherein the individual rescue swimming vehicle searches for the victim using the remote control system of the rescue swimming vehicle. 14. The method of operation of an individual rescue swimming facility of claim 8, characterized in that the opening of the individual rescue swimming facility is carried out by remote control of the opening activation button. 15. The method of operation of an individual rescue swimming facility of claim 8, wherein the gas-filling activator is pressed using a remote control system. 16. The method of operation of an individual rescue swimming facility according to claim 8, characterized in that after the complete gas filling of the raft, a thermal bag is thrown at the expense of the gas filling energy. 17. The method of operation of an individual rescue swimming facility of claim 8, characterized in that, when the gas-filling raft is full, the protective awning is opened due to the gas-filling energy.

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