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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2022
Applicant:
Bae Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc., Nashua, NH (US);
Inventors:
Mathieu P. Kemp, Amherst, NH (US);
Christopher M. Romano, Marshfield, MA (US);
Assignee:
BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc., Nashua, NH (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B63G 8/22 (2006.01); B63G 8/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B63G 8/22 (2013.01); B63G 8/24 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques and architectures are disclosed for a system capable of creating large changes in buoyancy that can be incorporated into underwater vehicles, embodiments of the system utilizing edge-welded, metal bellows disposed within a pressure vessel to balance a pressure differential across the bellows while using the bellows to displace fluid and thereby alter the buoyancy of a vehicle on which the system is disposed.