Ship with a protection system making it unsinkable

US6327988A · kind A · utility

Inventor

• Rainer Seidel · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 12, 2001
• Grant date: Dec 11, 2001
• Expiry date: Feb 12, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B63B2231/50
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A watercraft, e.g. a passenger vessel, a ferry, a hazardous-substance freighter or the like, with a deck and with a buoyancy chamber in the deck, it being the case that, in a first operating state, the buoyancy chamber contains air, is characterized in that, in a second operating state, the buoyancy chamber is filled with a foam which has a high cell volume with closed cells and a dimensionally stable state of aggregation.