USA PATENT

ABSTRACT

Most 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 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 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 spherical surface ship monohull and is dissimilar to most other surface ships due to its infinite spherical rotational symmetry and actively spinning the entire spinning stabilized ship for stabilization combined with the spherical shape for passive stabilization. Due to these unique active and passive stabilization features, a 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 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 spherical monohull surface ship with only one hull serving as the vessel's primary buoyant structure. Spinning stabilized ship is not sensitive to how it orients itself to waves that occur in Beaufort Scale numbers 0-17. A spherical surface ship monohull is insensitive to how it orients itself to waves. A spinning stabilized ship 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 perfect 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 perfect 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 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 diminishes nearly 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 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 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 spherical monohull and is a surface 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. Shapes other than a sphere do not have infinite rotational symmetry. Shapes other than a sphere do not have continuous rotational symmetry. Spinning stabilized ships could be built using shapes other than a sphere combined with spinning stabilization, but they would not perform as well in stabilization. These non spherical shapes could be build for 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 spinning stabilized ship as a giant, slowly spinning, gyroscope to achieve unparalleled stability. These other shapes would be infinite and it would be impossible to itemize them all herein.

     SUMMARY

Spinning stabilized ship is a spherical surface ship monohull and is not oriented along a horizontal central longitudinal axis. Spinning stabilized ships are spherical surface ship  monohulls and must have the feature of spinning the entire surface ship monohull for stabilization. Spinning stabilized ships are spherical surface ships and are monohulls and must be able to navigate with their spinning ship monohull stabilization either activated or deactivated. 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 surface ship and is a monohull and is a ship with only one monohull, serving as the vessel's primary buoyant structure. Customized 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 spherical monohull surface ship to act as a giant spinning gyroscope stabilizer which is a unique approach to 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 spinning stabilized ship is a spherical monohull surface ship and interior multiple decks 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 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 the entire spherical monohull surface ship  to act as a giant spinning gyroscope stabilizer which is a unique approach to ship design compared to other traditional surface ships. There are an infinite number of non-spherical shapes that would possibly qualify which do not have infinite rotationally symmetry, therefore some of these non-spherical shapes could  be used to build a monohull surface ship spinning stabilized ship if . These non-spherical shapes are too many to list. 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 spinning stabilized ship's spherical monohull surface ship bottom. All of the omnidirectional thrusters are programmed to synchronously generate horizontal thrust for spinning the spinning stabilized ship's entire surface ship monohull 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 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 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 coordinate. Spinning stabilized ship's loaded displacement tonnage of the entire 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 monohull surface ship which has infinite rotational symmetry. An alternative variation of spinning stabilized ship is a non-spherical monohull surface ship which does not have infinite rotational symmetry but does have some rotational symmetry.

CLAIM 2. The preferred embodiment of spinning stabilized ship is a spherical monohull surface ship which can generate directional horizontal propulsive thrust using multiple azimuthing omnidirectional thrusters, which are mounted on its 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 spinning stabilized ship is a non-spherical monohull surface ship which does not have infinite rotational symmetry but does have some rotational symmetry which can generate directional horizontal propulsive thrust using multiple azimuthing omnidirectional thrusters, which are mounted on its bottom as a propulsion system capable to propel the entire spinning stabilized ship in a full 360 degree range of direction.

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

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