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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2010
Applicant:
Tatsuo Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tatsuo Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Artificial Sea-Mount Institute Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E02B 3/06 (2006.01); E02B 3/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In an artificial sea-mount constructed by piling up a plurality of block bodies on the seabed to vertically mix water mass in a peripheral sea area using a tidal current, ocean current, and internal wave in that sea area, a cone array formed from three or more cones is constructed linearly on the seabed, and the vertex interval between the cones is set to 0.75 times to 2 times the bottom radius of the cone. It is possible to generate an upwelling current even in the deep sea area by inverted triangle-shaped gaps formed between the cones and the conic surfaces of the cones, and thus obtain effective upwelling flux.