Patents Examined by Jovon E Hayes
  • Patent number: 12139244
    Abstract: A marine vessel includes a hull, a jet pump including an impeller, a plurality of motors, and a transmission to transmit outputs of the plurality of motors to the impeller of the jet pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Susumu Shibayama
  • Patent number: 12139240
    Abstract: An outboard motor that has an actuator and a gear change mechanism. The outboard motor also comprises an operation position sensor that detects the operation position of an operation part, a shift position detection unit that detects the actual shift position of the gear shift mechanism, an actuator detection unit that detects the state of the actuator, and a control device. The control device performs failure determination or drive control of the actuator on the basis of at least two pieces of the detected information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamasa Takeshige, Naoki Aikawa
  • Patent number: 12134444
    Abstract: A kayak has a front hull portion and a back hull portion. The front hull portion has a front engagement portion. The back hull portion has a back engagement portion that mates in an assembled state with the front engagement portion to form a passenger cockpit. At least one latch is engageable between the front and the back hull portions in the assembled state. A substantial portion of the rotated front hull portion fits within the back hull portion in a stowed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Inventor: Avery Jenkins
  • Patent number: 12134445
    Abstract: According to the invention an energy conversion system, in particular a solar park, is proposed, which is configured to be arranged floating on a body of water, with at least three floating units (48a, 48b) and with at least one connection device (66), wherein the connection device (66) connects at least two floating units (48) in a rigid manner and/or at least two floating units (48a, 48b) in a movable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Inventor: Robert Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 12136751
    Abstract: A system and method for power generation and CO2 sequestration include a fuel cell system configured to generate power using natural gas (NG), a container configured to store liquid natural gas (LNG), and a fluid processor configured to convert LNG received from the container into NG and to convert exhaust output from the fuel cell system to dry ice by transferring heat between and the LNG and the exhaust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Martin Perry
  • Patent number: 12134449
    Abstract: A robotic fish comprises one or more torque reaction engines and a fish body, wherein the torque reaction engine cyclically oscillates and causes a wave to propagate across the fish body, including through a flexible wing comprising a disk, accelerating thrust fluid and propelling the robotic fish.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Fishboat Incorporated
    Inventor: Martin Spencer Garthwaite
  • Patent number: 12129824
    Abstract: A method of installing an offshore wind turbine includes the step of raising a full-length tower for the offshore wind turbine by moving it longitudinally from a container in a substructure, the substructure being a support structure for the wind turbine, wherein the substructure is arranged with a container configured for housing a tower for the wind turbine substantially in its entirety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Grant Prideco, Inc.
    Inventors: Oddvar Høydal, Thor Lars Ludvig Strand, Boro Barjaktarovic
  • Patent number: 12128995
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed herein for minimizing movement of an offshore wind turbine. Using the technologies described, a wind turbine may be mounted on a marine platform that is constructed and deployed to reduce environmental loads (e.g., wind, waves, . . . ) on the platform in both shallow and deep water. In some configurations, a fully restrained platform (FRP) is configured to support a wind turbine. According to some examples, moorings are attached to the FRP and/or the structure of the wind turbine structure to reduce movement in six degrees of freedom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Entrion Wind, Inc.
    Inventors: Eivind Johnsen, Li Lee
  • Patent number: 12123456
    Abstract: A weight distribution and stiffening system is provided for modular floating platforms by creating internal channels that allow for the incorporation of stiffening members within the modular floating platform assembly. Float modules with horizontal recessed areas that are aligned with adjacent float modules to create open channels within the body of a modular floating platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Inventor: Bruce Nelson
  • Patent number: 12122662
    Abstract: A gas supply marine vessel and a refueling facility are described. The gas supply marine vessel includes a hull with an upper deck having an elongated cargo cavity formed therein. Gas interface modules are disposed in the cavity and extend between hull sides, each module having a plurality of fuel vessel docking stations. A plurality of stacked fuel container assemblies are fluidically coupled to the docking stations. A gantry, is movable along the length of the cavity, straddles the cargo cavity between hull sides. An articulating crane is mounted on the gantry and it utilized to move fuel container assemblies to a fuel container depression formed in the deck of a floating refueling facility. The floating refueling facility includes a concave side to facilitate mooring adjacent a shoreline, the concave side forming angled extensions at corners of the deck with a linkspan extending from each of the angled extensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Tritec Marine Ltd.
    Inventors: Georgios Mermiris, Jamie Roberts
  • Patent number: 12116087
    Abstract: The disclosed method measures a line angle of a mooring line connected to a floating object floating in a body of water, the mooring line being connected between the floating object and an anchoring body disposed in a bed of the body of water, in which the floating object is coupled to the mooring line by a line connector. The method includes: defining at least three data points each associated with a respective location on the mooring line; on the data points obtaining a value associated with the location on the mooring line; determining parameters of an equation describing an anchor line curve from the values associated with the location on the mooring line for the data points; calculating at a predetermined position on the mooring line a line angle of the mooring line from a derivative of the equation at the predetermined position based on the parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SINGLE BUOY MOORINGS INC.
    Inventors: Giorgio Torre, Jeannin Antoine, Rodrigo Vieira Camara De Castro
  • Patent number: 12115868
    Abstract: A battery enclosure for a personal watercraft is provided. Different configurations of the battery enclosure are disclosed, as well as different arrangements of the battery enclosure within the personal watercraft and with respect to other features of the personal watercraft. According to one embodiment, a personal watercraft includes a deck and a hull defining an interior volume. An electric motor is housed within the interior volume, the electric motor being operable to rotate a drive shaft. A battery pack having a battery enclosure housing one or more batteries is also positioned within the interior volume. A portion of at least one battery of the one or more batteries is positioned vertically above the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: TAIGA MOTORS INC.
    Inventors: Marc-Olivier Gagnon, Dante Filice, Patrick Bernier, Jessie Boudreau
  • Patent number: 12117575
    Abstract: The embodiments herein describe a seismic source that includes at least two firing heads connected to a shared reservoir of compressed gas. When underwater, a controller can instruct the firing heads to fire at the same time or at different times to create gas bubbles that generate seismic energy for identifying structures underneath a body of water. If the firing heads fire at the same, the resulting gas bubble may coalesce to form a single bubble, depending on the size of the respective bubbles and the separation distance between the firing heads. In one embodiment, the firing heads are attached at opposite ends of the shared reservoir (although this is not a requirement). The length of the reservoir, which dictates in part the separation distance of the firing heads, can be set so that gas bubbles generated by the firing heads at substantially the same time coalesce.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Graeme Williamson, Paul Farmer, Joseph Richard Gagliardi, Nikolaos Bernitsas, Timothy A. Dudley, Emerson Verissimo, Darrell Burch
  • Patent number: 12110080
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for draining water from the interior of a watercraft via a drainage valve system. In one example the drainage valve system has an outer frame housing an inner ball valve. The drainage valve system is adapted to be slidable between a first and a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: SWELL WATERCRAFT, LLC
    Inventor: James Jeffrey Marsh
  • Patent number: 12110082
    Abstract: An expandable flat-pack membrane-based float for use with a floating solar PV array, including: a float formed from a flexible membrane; and an expansion structure that is deployed to support the float in the inflated position without the need for compressed air. The expansion structure may be an expandable structure that is positioned within the float, or around an exterior surface of the float and increases in size when deployed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: NORIA ENERGY
    Inventors: Alex Mayer, James Raiford, Brian Atchley, Jason King, Ralf Schulze, Leslie Arciniega, Becca Suchower
  • Patent number: 12097931
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vessel including a hull and a system providing an air lubricating layer between the bottom and water, including a cavity defined by sidewalls, a top wall and an interface plane, in which water mixes with air due the Kelvin Helmholtz effect. The sidewalls extend from a dagger-shaped nose section at the front end to the rear end of the cavity and diverge so a distance between the sidewalls increases along the length of the cavity when going in a rearward direction. The diverging cavities provide a stable air lubrication layer that covers a relatively large area of the bottom, so the number of cavities can be reduced. The alignment of the diverging cavities with the streamlines has relatively large tolerances so construction is simplified and can be carried out in a cost-effective manner. The diverging sidewalls lead to reduced formation of vortices and reduced drag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Silverstream Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Noah Silberschmidt, Jørgen Clausen, Johannes Johannesson
  • Patent number: 12091146
    Abstract: An outboard motor includes an outboard motor body including a propulsion generator and an engine to drive the propulsion generator, a pair of clamp brackets, a swivel bracket provided between the pair of clamp brackets and rotatable in an upward-downward direction with respect to the pair of clamp brackets while supporting the outboard motor body, and an electrical wiring extending from a position between the pair of clamp brackets upward to the outboard motor body through the swivel bracket and connected to the outboard motor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daijyu Nagai, Sadao Ojika, Masaki Urano, Tomohisa Matsumoto, Tomohiro Hagi
  • Patent number: 12095346
    Abstract: In an outboard motor including a vertical electric motor, a cooling structure for the vertical electric motor comprises a cooling oil supply member positioned above the stator and including a plurality of outlets for dropping cooling oil on an upper surface of the stator, the outlets being arranged circumferentially in a coaxial relationship to the stator, and the outlets are configured such that an amount of cooling oil that is dropped on a part of the stator located on a first axis on a plane orthogonal to the vertical axis is smaller than an amount of cooling oil that is dropped on a part of the stator located on a second axis which is orthogonal to the first axis on the plane orthogonal to the vertical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro Mihara
  • Patent number: 12084154
    Abstract: A fin for use on a surfboard, the fin comprising: a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a base, the base comprising at least one mount for mounting the fin onto a surfboard; a first and a second outer fin surface which meet along the leading edge and the trailing edge and abut the base; and a first ridge protruding laterally from the first outer fin surface, and/or a second ridge protruding laterally from the second outer fin surface; wherein the shape and configuration of the fin creates an area of lower water pressure around and in front of the fin, as well as disrupting and/or reducing the size of trailing vortices, resulting in additional forward thrust for the board on which the fin is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Inventor: Glenndin George Miller
  • Patent number: 12077247
    Abstract: A bimini for a boat includes a cover mountable to the boat and an inflation system arranged in fluid communication with the bimini. The bimini is transformable between a stowed position, a retracted position, and an extended position. The bimini is transformable between the retracted position and the extended position via operation of the inflation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: COMMERCIAL SEWING, INC.
    Inventor: David Mazzarelli