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Submersible vehicle with high maneuvering cyclic-pitch postswirl propulsors

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A submersible vehicle with increased payload and energy savings, more particularly, a submersible vehicle, which may be an unmanned underwater vehicle, with high maneuvering cyclic-pitch postswirl propulsors. The high maneuvering cyclic-pitch postswirl propulsor arrangements are a bow thrust vectoring arrangement and a stern thrust vectoring arrangement. The bow thrust vectoring arrangement is a two-part arrangement having a forward/reverse element and a turning element. Similarly, the stern thrust vectoring arrangement is also a two-part arrangement having a forward/reverse element and a turning element.

Inventors: 
Chen, Benjamin Y. -. H.; Neely, Stephen K.
Patent Number: 
Technical domain: 
Handling and Transportation
FIle Date: 
2013-05-21
Grant Date: 
2014-12-30
Grant time: 
588 days
Grant time percentile rank: 
10
Claim count percentile rank: 
2
Citations percentile rank: 
1
'Cited by' percentile rank: 
1
Assignee: 
US NAVY