Ship or air deployable automated buoy refueling station for multiple manned or unmanned surface vessels
NSWCCD
A fueling system including a ship or air deployable automated fueling station and one or more sea surface water vessels. The fueling station including a ballast arrangement to maintain an optimal freeboard for fueling the one or more water vessels, the fueling station and the one or more water vessels including a communication arrangement for communications between the fueling station and the one or more water vessels. The fueling station including a plurality of nozzles for simultaneously fueling a plurality of water vessels.
Inventors:
Petersen, Scott M.
Patent Number:
Technical domain:
Handling and Transportation
FIle Date:
2013-12-04
Grant Date:
2015-03-31
Grant time:
482 days
Grant time percentile rank:
8
Claim count percentile rank:
4
Citations percentile rank:
2
'Cited by' percentile rank:
1
Assignee:
US NAVY
