Standing rigging component, in particular the mast of a vessel, and the method of its manufacture
AssigneeSunreef Venture S.A.
InventorLoïc Vénec
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AssigneeSunreef Venture S.A.
InventorLoïc Vénec
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A standing rigging element, in particular a mast of a vessel, that has a closed profile, and a method of manufacturing the standing rigging element. The halves of the closed profile are made of layers of structural textile saturated with an epoxy resin and have a shape corresponding to the shape of the standing rigging element, after gluing. The mast includes a layer of photovoltaic modules as one of the laminate layers, with a flat set of flexible photovoltaic cells on the outer surface. Cables collecting electricity from photovoltaic modules are routed from each photovoltaic module to common collecting cables, connected to the electric power supply installation of the vessel. The photovoltaic module includes layers of structural textile, wherein one of the layers is a layer of flexible photovoltaic cells.
A standing rigging element, in particular mast of a vessel comprising:
A method of manufacture of the standing rigging element, in particular of a vessel mast, which comprises a closed profile, in which two halves of the rigging element are folded along an edge of longitudinal division, forming a standing rigging element in a closed profile form, where the two halves are manufactured in a mould used to shape the element from placed layers of structural textile saturated with epoxy resin and curing takes place inside the mould, with the element corresponding to the standing rigging element's shape after folding both halves along the edge of longitudinal division, wherein, in the form used to shape the half of the standing rigging element, an outer surface textile layer is placed, and subsequently used as a substrate for adjacent, layered photovoltaic modules formed according to the shape of said mould, used as a substrate for at least one layer of structural textile, followed by curing of the aforementioned composite of structural textile layers, including a layer of photovoltaic modules, with epoxy resin, wherein said curing of the composite of structural textile with epoxy resin includes closing the entire mould with the aforementioned layers inside a vacuum packaging and vacuum is generated inside said vacuum packaging, after which epoxy resin is introduced into the vacuum packaging and once the resin is distributed, the vacuum packing is heated in order to cure the composite, and the half of the standing rigging element is then removed, joined with the second manufactured half, and the joint edge area of both halves of the standing rigging element is laminated.
A method of manufacture of the standing rigging element, in particular of a vessel mast, which comprises a closed profile, in which two halves of the rigging element are folded along an edge of longitudinal division, forming a standing rigging element in a closed profile form, where the two halves are manufactured in a mould used to shape the element from placed layers of structural textile saturated with epoxy resin and curing takes place inside the mould, with the element corresponding to the standing rigging element's shape after folding both halves along the edge of longitudinal division, wherein, in the form used to shape the half of the standing rigging element, an outer surface textile layer is placed, and subsequently used as a substrate for adjacent, layered photovoltaic modules formed according to the shape of said mould, used as a substrate for at least one layer of structural textile, followed by curing of the aforementioned composite of structural textile layers, including a layer of photovoltaic modules, with epoxy resin, and wherein heating in the vacuum packaging takes place in temperature up to 150° C., between 8 hours and 16 hours.
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