US 2008/0302292 A1 · Apparatus and Method for Deploying and Recovering an Underwater Vehicle, and Method for Docking an Underwater Vehicle to a Recovery Apparatus

Abstract

An apparatus for deployment and recovery of an underwater vehicle can be introduced into a recovery tube of an underwater recovery vehicle. The apparatus has a moveable tube provided with an insertion/extraction device at one of its ends. The device is in the form of a tube or of a ring in a retracted state and in the form of a funnel in an extended state. There is also disclosed a method for deployment and a method for recovery of an underwater vehicle by way of the above-mentioned apparatus that is introduced into a recovery tube of an underwater recovery vehicle. Additionally, there is disclosed a method for docking an underwater vehicle at a recovery tube of an underwater recovery vehicle provided with the above-mentioned apparatus.

Claims19

Dependent claims

An apparatus for deployment and recovery of an underwater vehicle, wherein the apparatus is configured for introduction into a recovery tube of an underwater recovery vehicle, the apparatus comprising:

a moveable tube having a first end;
an insertion/extraction device disposed at said first end of said moveable tube, said insertion/extraction device taking the form of a tube or of a ring in a retracted state thereof and taking the form of a funnel in an extended state.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

11/953,090Filed 10 Dec 2007

Priority

DE DE102007027403.511 Jun 2007

Published

11 Dec 2008

Term ends

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Classification5 codes

B63G 8/32
Arrangement of offensive or defensive equipment: of torpedo-launching means ; of torpedo stores or handlers
B63C 7/16
Salvaging of disabled, stranded, or sunken vessels; Salvaging of vessel parts or furnishings, e.g. of safes; Salvaging of other underwater…
B63C 7/18
Apparatus engaging vessels or objects: using nets
B63G
Offensive or defensive arrangements on vessels

Apparatus and Method for Deploying and Recovering an Underwater Vehicle, and Method for Docking an Underwater Vehicle to a Recovery Apparatus

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Apparatus and Method for Deploying and Recovering an Underwater Vehicle, and Method for Docking an Underwater Vehicle to a Recovery Apparatus

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Claims19