USA PATENT

ABSTRACT

Most marine vessel surface ships, whether they are monohulls, multihulls, displacement hulls, planing hulls or semi displacement hulls, have bows, sterns, starboard sides,  port sides, external decks, superstructures, keels and these features are oriented along their horizontal central longitudinal axis between their bows and their sterns. Most marine vessel surface ships are sensitive in how they orient themselves to waves that may occur in Beaufort Scale numbers 0-17 and this sensitivity increases dangerously as Beaufort Scale numbers increase and wave size increases. Most marine vessel surface ships have motions such as yaw, pitch, roll, heave, sway and surge caused by waves throughout the Beaufort Scale numbers 0-17. As Beaufort Scale numbers increase in magnitude, these motions also increase in magnitude and can cause catastrophic capsizing, sinking, hull fracture, hull separation, broaching, pitchpoling, swamping, etc. A spinning stabilized ship is a marine vessel spherical surface ship monohull and is dissimilar to most other marine vessel surface ships due to its spherical continuous infinite rotational symmetry and actively spinning the entire marine vessel spinning stabilized ship for stabilization combined with the spherical shape for passive stabilization. Due to these unique active and passive stabilization features, a marine vessel spinning stabilized ship has extraordinary stability. Spinning stabilized ship is an emerging marine vessel design that utilizes the entire spherical monohull surface ship as a giant, slowly spinning, gyroscope to achieve unparalleled stability, even against monster rogue waves. Spinning stabilized ship is a marine vessel surface ship and is a spherical monohull and does not require internal stationary mechanical gyroscopes which makes it uniquely dissimilar to most other monohull surface ships. A spinning stabilized ship is a marine vessel spherical monohull surface ship with only one hull serving as the marine vessel's primary buoyant structure. Spinning stabilized ship is a marine vessel and is not sensitive to how it orients itself to waves that occur in Beaufort Scale numbers 0-17. A spherical marine vessel surface ship monohull is insensitive to how it orients itself to waves. A spinning stabilized ship is a marine vessel and is not sensitive to how it orients itself to waves that occur in Beaufort Scale numbers 0-17. A sphere has continuous rotational symmetry around an infinite number of axes. No matter how you tilt or spin a sphere, it presents the same profile from every angle. A 3D sphere has infinite rotational symmetry because every single point on its surface is exactly the same distance from its center. Because it lacks edges, corners, or flat faces, you can rotate a sphere around any axis and by any angle and it will look completely identical to its starting position.  A sphere is defined as the set of all points in 3D space that are a fixed distance, the radius, from a single central point. Because there is no "preferred" direction or side, changing its orientation does not change the shape. You can draw an infinite number of imaginary axis lines straight through the center of a sphere. No matter which of these axes you choose to spin the sphere around, its appearance remains unchanged. Because spinning stabilized ship is a marine vessel surface spherical monohull with infinite rotational symmetry it eliminates bows, sterns, starboard sides, port sides, external decks, superstructures, keels and eliminates orientation along a horizontal central longitudinal axis between bows and sterns and also nearly eliminates all motions such as yaw, pitch, roll, heave, sway and surge caused by waves throughout the Beaufort Scale numbers 0-17. Spinning stabilized ship is a marine vessel surface spherical monohull and when Beaufort Scale numbers increase in magnitude, these motions are nearly eliminated and prevent catastrophic capsizing, sinking, hull fracture, hull separation, broaching, pitchpoling, swamping, etc.

BACKGROUND

Due to unique active and passive stabilization features, spinning stabilized ship is a marine vessel surface spherical monohull and has extraordinary stability. Spinning stabilized ship is a monohull and is a spherical surface ship and is an emerging marine vessel design that utilizes the entire spinning stabilized ship as a giant, slowly spinning, gyroscope to achieve unparalleled stability, even against monster rogue waves. A spinning stabilized ship is a marine vessel spherical monohull and is a surface ship with only one hull, serving as the marine vessel's primary buoyant structure. A sphere has continuous infinite rotational symmetry around an infinite number of axes. No matter how you tilt or spin a sphere, it presents the same profile from every angle. A 3D sphere has infinite rotational symmetry because every single point on its surface is exactly the same distance from its center. Because it lacks edges, corners, or flat faces, you can rotate a sphere around any axis and by any angle and it will look completely identical to its starting position.  A sphere is defined as the set of all points in 3D space that are a fixed distance, the radius, from a single central point. Because there is no "preferred" direction or side, changing its orientation does not change the shape. You can draw an infinite number of imaginary axis lines straight through the center of a sphere. No matter which of these axes you choose to spin the sphere around, its appearance remains unchanged. Non-spherical shapes do not have infinite rotational symmetry. Spinning stabilized ships could be built using a non-spherical monohull marine vessel surface ship combined with spinning stabilization, but they would not perform as well for stabilization. These non-spherical shapes could be build for marine vessels with special purposes and would benefit somewhat from having spinning stabilization. The use of these other non-spherical shapes combined with entire monohull spinning stabilization is included in this utility patent because it is a major unique feature of this emerging marine vessel design that utilizes the entire marine vessel spinning stabilized ship as a giant, slowly spinning, gyroscope to achieve unparalleled stability. The extremely large number of non-spherical shapes would be impossible to itemize herein.

     SUMMARY

Spinning stabilized ship is a marine vessel spherical surface ship monohull and is not oriented along a horizontal central longitudinal axis. Spinning stabilized ships are marine vessel spherical surface ship monohulls and must have the feature of spinning the entire spherical marine vessel surface ship monohull for stabilization. Spinning stabilized ships are marine vessel spherical surface ships and are monohulls and must be able to navigate with their spinning ship monohull stabilization either activated or deactivated. A marine vessel spherical monohull surface spinning stabilized ship's loaded displacement tonnage  must be distributed and well balanced around its vertical axis. A spinning stabilized ship is a marine vessel surface ship and is a monohull and is a ship with only one monohull, serving as the marine vessel's primary buoyant structure. Customized spherical marine vessel versions  of spinning stabilized ship, could be a customized explorer super yacht, a research vessel, naval vessel, cruise ship, coastguard vessel, commercial fishing vessel, other types of commercial vessels, etc. and utilizes their entire marine vessel spherical monohull surface ship to act as a giant spinning gyroscope stabilizer which is an inventive unique approach to marine vessel ship design compared to other traditional surface ships. A sphere has continuous rotational symmetry around an infinite number of axes. No matter how you tilt or spin a sphere, it presents the same profile from every angle. A 3D sphere has infinite rotational symmetry because every single point on its surface is exactly the same distance from its center. Because it lacks edges, corners, or flat faces, you can rotate a sphere around any axis and by any angle and it will look completely identical to its starting position.  A sphere is defined as the set of all points in 3D space that are a fixed distance, the radius, from a single central point. Because there is no "preferred" direction or side, changing its orientation does not change the shape. You can draw an infinite number of imaginary axis lines straight through the center of a sphere. No matter which of these axes you choose to spin the sphere around, its appearance remains unchanged.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The preferred embodiment of a spherical marine vessel monohull spinning stabilized surface ship has  infinite continuous rotational symmetry and is spherical monohull surface ship and has interior multiple decks that would generally have spaces for propulsion, navigation, shelter wet decks for work and/or recreation, machine shop, hatch covered or uncovered helipad, helm, fuel tanks, passenger and crew quarters, galley, heads, pools, hot tubs, saunas, gyms, libraries, theaters, freshwater system, sewage treatment system, auxiliary craft launch and haul out wet deck, etc. Customized versions  of spinning stabilized ship, could be built as marine vessels such as a customized explorer super yacht, a research vessel, naval vessel, cruise ship, coastguard vessel, commercial fishing vessel, other types of commercial vessels; and they all utilize the entire spherical marine vessel monohull surface ship  to act as a giant spinning gyroscope stabilizer which is a unique inventive approach to ship design compared to other traditional surface ships. There are an extremely large number of non-spherical shapes that which do not have infinite continuous rotationally symmetry, therefore some of these non-spherical shapes could  be used to build a marine vessel monohull surface ship spinning stabilized ship if the non-spherical monohull surface had enough continuous rotational symmetry to allow for the spinning of the entire non-spherical monohull surface ship. Multiple azimuthing omnidirectional thrusters are capable of generating and directing horizontal thrust in a full 360 degree range of direction and are mounted on the marine vessel spinning stabilized ship's spherical monohull surface ship's bottom. All of the omnidirectional thrusters are programmed to synchronously generate horizontal thrust for spinning the spinning stabilized ship's entire marine vessel spherical monohull ship on its vertical axis which generates gyroscopic stabilization and generate directional horizontal propulsion capability with a 360 degree range of propulsive horizontal thrust to propel spinning stabilized ship in any direction. Spinning stabilized ship is a marine vessel spherical monohull surface ship and also generates a 360 degree range of directional horizontal propulsive thrust when it isn't spinning. Spinning stabilized ship is a spherical marine vessel monohull surface ship and generates horizontal propulsion for spinning for stabilization when spinning stabilized ship is not making way and remaining stationary at a fixed position. Spinning stabilized ship's loaded displacement tonnage of the entire marine vessel spherical monohull surface ship must be a balanced weight distribution around its central vertical axis. Spinning stabilized ship's size should be large enough to spin its entire spherical monohull surface ship mass at a gyroscopic spinning rate of speed which is tolerable and safe for humans onboard without generating excessive centrifugal force inside, like what can happen if too small of a spinning stabilized ship is built. The number of azimuthing omnidirectional thrusters that are mounted on the bottom of spinning stabilized ship depends on the size and weight of the fully loaded spherical monohull surface ship and the amount of thrust  required to be generated by the azimuthing omnidirectional thrusters. A spinning stabilized ship is a spherical monohull surface ship and is a ship with only one hull, serving as the vessel's primary buoyant structure. A sphere has continuous rotational symmetry around an infinite number of axes. No matter how you tilt or spin a sphere, it presents the same profile from every angle. A 3D sphere has infinite rotational symmetry because every single point on its surface is exactly the same distance from its center. Because it lacks edges, corners, or flat faces, you can rotate a sphere around any axis and by any angle and it will look completely identical to its starting position.  A sphere is defined as the set of all points in 3D space that are a fixed distance, the radius, from a single central point. Because there is no "preferred" direction or side, changing its orientation does not change the shape. You can draw an infinite number of imaginary axis lines straight through the center of a sphere. No matter which of these axes you choose to spin the sphere around, its appearance remains unchanged.

CONCLUSION

CLAIM 1. The preferred embodiment of spinning stabilized ship is a spherical marine vessel monohull surface ship which has infinite continuous rotational symmetry. An alternative variation of spinning stabilized ship is a non-spherical monohull marine vessel surface ship which does not have infinite continuous rotational symmetry but does have enough continuous rotational symmetry for spinning the non-spherical marine vessel monohull surface ship .

CLAIM 2. The preferred embodiment of marine vessel spinning stabilized ship is a spherical monohull surface ship which has infinite rotational symmetry which can generate directional horizontal propulsive thrust using multiple azimuthing omnidirectional thrusters, which are mounted on it's bottom as a propulsion system capable to propel the entire spinning stabilized ship in a full 360 degree range of direction. An alternative variation of a marine vessel spinning stabilized ship is a marine non-spherical monohull surface ship which does not have infinite continuous rotational symmetry but does have enough continuous rotational symmetry so it can generate directional horizontal propulsive thrust using multiple azimuthing omnidirectional thrusters, which are mounted on it's bottom as a propulsion system capable to propel the entire marine spinning stabilized ship in a full 360 degree range of direction.

CLAIM 3. The preferred embodiment of a spherical marine vessel spinning stabilized ship which has infinite rotational symmetry and is a marine spherical monohull surface ship which can generate horizontal thrust for spinning itself on it's vertical axis to generate gyroscopic stabilization using multiple azimuthing omnidirectional  thrusters, which are mounted on it's bottom and are individually capable of directing thrust in a full 360 degree range of direction. An alternative variation of a marine spinning stabilized ship is a marine non-spherical monohull surface ship which does not have infinite rotational symmetry but does have enough continuous rotational symmetry so it can generate horizontal thrust for spinning itself on it's vertical axis to generate gyroscopic stabilization using multiple azimuthing omnidirectional  thrusters, which are mounted on it's bottom and are individually capable of directing thrust in a full 360 degree range of direction.

CLAIM 4. The preferred embodiment of a spherical marine vessel spinning stabilized ship which has infinite continuous rotational symmetry and is a marine spherical monohull surface ship which can generate horizontal thrust to synchronously spin the entire marine spinning stabilized ship and propel the entire marine spinning stabilized ship by generating directional horizontal propulsive thrust in a 360 degree range around it's vertical axis using multiple azimuthing omnidirectional thrusters. An alternative variation of a marine spinning stabilized ship is a marine vessel non-spherical monohull surface ship which does not have infinite rotational symmetry but does have enough rotational symmetry so it can generate horizontal thrust to synchronously spin the entire spinning stabilized ship and propel the entire marine spinning stabilized ship by generating directional horizontal propulsive thrust in a 360 degree range around it's vertical axis using multiple azimuthing omnidirectional thrusters.