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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 1988
Filed:
Jul. 15, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Pierre Balleraud, Menton, FR;
Assignee:
Single Buoy Moorings Inc., Marly, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B63B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
441-3 ; 114230 ;
Abstract
Mooring system comprising a column (2) tensioned between a sea bottom anchor (3) and a buoyant body (5-8) said column having (an) additional mass(es) (11,12,13,14,27) at the vibration node or nodes of the second or (N+1).sup.th bending vibration node(s) above the wave period while keeping the periods of the higher modes of bending vibration below or in the area of the smaller waves.