Patents Assigned to Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Company, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 4519728
    Abstract: A floating offshore structure which is moored at a fixed position on the sea by means of mooring hawsers and anchors connected to the ends thereof respectively for conducting a submarine excavating operation from a deck of the structure. The structure includes a moorage hull part provided with a vertical through-hole formed therein for receiving an excavating drill pipe and the mooring hawsers and a movable hull part connected to the moorage hull part so as to be rotatable within a horizontal plane. The movable hull part is constituted as a hull defining the outer wall of the floating offshore structure and connected with the moorage hull part by inserting it into a moorage hull part receiving hole formed at a position closer to the bow thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1985
    Assignee: Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanao Oshima, Hitoshi Narita, Nobuyoshi Yashima, Hiroshi Tabuchi