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US 11,173,989 B2Granted
Floating support structure comprising a floater and a damping plate with a row of apertures
AssigneeIfp Energies Nouvelles
InventorsAdrien Emery, Pauline Bozonnet, Yann Poirette, Timothee Perdrizet
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Abstract
The present invention is a floating support structure (1) provided with a main floater (2) and a heave plate (3). The heave plate (3) comprises a single row of orifices (4), substantially parallel to the periphery of the heave plate.
Claims25
A floating support structure comprising:
- at least one main floater and at least one heave plate with surface area in a horizontal section of each heave plate being greater than a surface area of a horizontal section of each one main floater, each heave plate being fastened to one of the at least one main floater, and each heave plate comprising orifices;
- and wherein
- the orifices are evenly distributed in a row with the row being parallel to an outer periphery of each heave plate and the horizontal section of each heave plate varies with depth and a periphery of each heave plate varies in thickness and has a reduced thickness at the periphery relative to a thickness of a remainder of the heave plate which favors hydrodynamic damping of the floater.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.