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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2009
William H. Marn, San Diego, CA (US);
James Ben Penney, San Diego, CA (US);
Lonnie Allen Hamme, Jamul, CA (US);
Christopher Lawson Fletcher, San Diego, CA (US);
Robert Kevin Creber, San Diego, CA (US);
James Gabriel Buescher, San Diego, CA (US);
William H. Marn, San Diego, CA (US);
James Ben Penney, San Diego, CA (US);
Lonnie Allen Hamme, Jamul, CA (US);
Christopher Lawson Fletcher, San Diego, CA (US);
Robert Kevin Creber, San Diego, CA (US);
James Gabriel Buescher, San Diego, CA (US);
The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
An underwater wireless network can include plurality of nodes, each node having a cylindrical housing, a repeater, a transducer and a buoy. The housing defines a void and encloses the repeater. The transducer can be tethered to the housing and a buoy can be tethered to said transducer. Each node also includes at least two hemi-cylindrical flukes that can be pivotably attached to the housing. The housing can further be formed with at least two flood ports, and corresponding plugs are inserted into a respective fill port. Lanyards interconnect each flukes with a respective plug. During transport, the flukes can surround the transducer and the void is empty, which renders the node neutrally buoyant for ease of transport. For deployment, the flukes are pivoted away from each other to tighten the lanyards, which pull the plugs out of the flood ports, to further flood the void and deploy the node.