Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Device for transferring fluid between two floating supports
- Patent Title (中): 用于在两个浮动支架之间传送流体的装置
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Application No.: US11919765Application Date: 2006-05-11
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Publication No.: US07677837B2Publication Date: 2010-03-16
- Inventor: Francois-Regis Pionetti , Midir Rivoal
- Applicant: Francois-Regis Pionetti , Midir Rivoal
- Applicant Address: FR Montigny le Bretonneux
- Assignee: Saipem S.A.
- Current Assignee: Saipem S.A.
- Current Assignee Address: FR Montigny le Bretonneux
- Agency: Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP
- Priority: FR0504848 20050513
- International Application: PCT/FR2006/001053 WO 20060511
- International Announcement: WO2006/120351 WO 20061116
- Main IPC: F16L1/12
- IPC: F16L1/12

Abstract:
A device for transferring fluid between two floating supports anchored to the sea bottom, having a rigid central undersea pipe installed below the surface with its ends each being connected to respective ones of two supports via a flexible hose. The main portion of the rigid central pipe includes or co-operates with buoyancy elements such that the central pipe adopts, in a quasi-static rest state, a configuration of an arch, preferably following a curve such that the angles between the half-lines of the axes of the rigid pipe and the horizontal half-lines at each of its ends extending towards the other end present absolute values of less than 20° and the flexible hoses present lengths and curvatures such that variations in the curvatures of the flexible hoses are suitable for compensating the movements of the floating supports.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090097923A1 Device for transferring fluid between two floating supports Public/Granted day:2009-04-16
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