Hull-mounted installation conversion method
AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTetsuya Kubota, Tomoki Kuwabara, Yasuyuki Haneda, Susumu Ikeda, Minoru Yokoyama
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Abstract
A hull-mounted installation conversion method in which some or all of first-use units placed on a hull and constituting a first-use installation are removed from the hull, and then second-use units are placed on the hull to construct a second-use installation. For example, the first-use units are medical units, and the first-use installation is a medical installation. Alternatively, the second-use units are medical units, and the second-use installation is a medical installation.
Claims9
A hull-mounted installation conversion method comprising:
- removing some or all of first-use units from a hull, the first-use units being placed on the hull and constituting a first-use installation;
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- placing second-use units on the hull to construct a second-use installation after the removing of the first-use units, wherein
- the first-use units include first unit-side connectors, respectively, each of the first unit-side connectors including an interface for an infrastructure required by a corresponding one of the first-use units,
- the second-use units include second unit-side connectors, respectively, each of the second unit-side connectors including an interface for an infrastructure required by a corresponding one of the second-use units,
- the hull includes first hull-side connectors connectable to the first unit-side connectors, respectively, and second hull-side connectors connectable to the second unit-side connectors, respectively,
- the first-use units are classified into different types,
- each of the first-use units is a container including an internal configuration corresponding to the type of the first-use unit,
- the first unit-side connector of each of the first-use units is at a location on a bottom surface of the first-use unit,
- the location of the first unit-side connector differs according to the type of the first-use unit, and
- the method further comprises connecting each type of the first-use units to the hull by aligning each respective first unit-side connector, located at a type-specific position on the bottom surface, with a matching location of only one of the first hull-side connectors in a distinct region, thereby establishing type-specific infrastructure connection based on positions of the respective first unit-side connectors relative to the first hull-side connectors.
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