Coupling device for connecting an unmanned underwater vehicle to a floating vehicle and navigation assembly comprising said coupling device
OwnerDiego Lazzarin, Alberto Serenainventors
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Abstract
A coupling device for connecting an unmanned underwater vehicle to a floating vehicle in a body of water has a connecting device configured to be connected mechanically and/or electrically and/or for data exchange to the unmanned underwater vehicle in the body of water; and a hydrodynamic resistance structure configured to cause on the coupling device a counter force opposing the forward motion of the coupling device in the body of water.
Claims20
1-19. (canceled)
A coupling device configured to connect an unmanned underwater vehicle to a floating vehicle in a body of water, the coupling device configured to be connected, by a cable, to the floating vehicle and towed in a forward direction by the floating vehicle, the coupling device comprising:
- a connecting device configured to be connected to the unmanned underwater vehicle in the body of water, the connection being at least one of a mechanical connection, an electrical connection and a data exchange connection;
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- a hydrodynamic resistance structure configured to cause, on the coupling device, a counter force opposing the forward motion of the coupling device in the body of water.
A navigation assembly comprising:
- a floating vehicle configured to navigate on a body of water;
- a coupling device comprising:
- a connecting device configured to be connected to an unmanned underwater vehicle in the body of water, the connection being at least one of a mechanical connection, an electrical connection and a data exchange connection;
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- a hydrodynamic resistance structure configured to cause, on the coupling device, a counter force opposing a forward motion of the coupling device in the body of water caused by the coupling device being towed in a forward direction by the floating vehicle;
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- a connecting cable configured to connect electrically, for data exchange and for towing, the floating vehicle to the coupling device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.