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US 2025/0128800 A1Published application
Submersible glider with ring wing
AssigneeApeiron Labs Inc.
InventorKnut STREITLIEN
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Abstract
A submersible glider with a ring wing is provided. The glider can operate in an aqueous medium. The glider can include a fuselage in a shape of a body of revolution. The glider can include a ring wing lifting surface coupled to a stern of the fuselage. The glider can include a buoyancy engine disposed within the fuselage, the buoyancy engine configured to adjust a buoyancy and a center-of-gravity of the glider in the aqueous medium, to propel the glider through the aqueous medium by leveraging lift from the ring wing lifting surface.
Claims20
A glider to operate in an aqueous medium, comprising:
- a fuselage in a shape of a body of revolution;
- a ring wing lifting surface coupled to a stern of the fuselage;
- and
- a buoyancy engine disposed within the fuselage, the buoyancy engine configured to adjust a buoyancy and a center-of-gravity of the glider in the aqueous medium, to propel the glider through the aqueous medium by leveraging lift from the ring wing lifting surface.
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A system, comprising:
- a launch container, disposed on a marine vessel, to store at least one glider, wherein each of the at least one glider comprises:
- a fuselage in a shape of a body of revolution;
- a ring wing lifting surface coupled to a stern of the fuselage;
- and
- a buoyancy engine disposed within the fuselage, the buoyancy engine configured to adjust a buoyancy and a center-of-gravity of the fuselage in an aqueous medium to propel the fuselage through the aqueous medium by leveraging lift from the ring wing lifting surface;
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- one or more processors, coupled with memory, to deploy the at least one glider from the launch container into the aqueous medium.
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A method, comprising:
- deploying a glider in an aqueous medium, the glider comprising a fuselage in the shape of a body of revolution and a ring wing lifting surface coupled to a stern of the fuselage;
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- adjusting, by a buoyancy engine disposed within the fuselage, a buoyancy and a center-of-gravity of the glider in the aqueous medium to propel the glider through the aqueous medium by leveraging lift from the ring wing lifting surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.