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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:
Jul. 18, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B63G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
114337 ; 440 13 ; 440 14 ;
Abstract
A submersible vehicle is a type having swinging wings. The vehicle is provided with a vehicle main body, a plurality of swinging wings provided for the main body and arranged in series, rotatable shafts located at front edges of the swinging wings, respectively, actuators for driving the shafts independently of one another, and a wing controller for controlling the actuators in such a manner that the wings enable to swing in a flexible manner like the tail fin of a fish, thereby producing a desired propelling force and performing a steering operation.