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, and 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 Extended Scale numbers 0-17 and this sensitivity increases dangerously as Beaufort Extended 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 Extended Scale numbers 0-17. As Beaufort Extended 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. Spinning Stabilized Ship is a spinning marine vessel, a spherical monohull and a surface ship and is dissimilar to most other marine vessel surface ships due to its spherical monohull with infinite continuous rotational symmetry combined with the spinning of the entire Spinning Stabilized Ship for stabilization. The preferred embodiment of the Spinning Stabilized Ship, is a spinning marine vessel spherical monohull surface ship; and 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 while engaging with monster rogue waves. Spinning Stabilized Ship is a spinning marine vessel  spherical monohull surface ship and does not require interior mounted stationary mechanical gyroscopes which makes it uniquely dissimilar to most other monohull surface ships. A Spinning Stabilized Ship, which is a spinning marine vessel spherical monohull surface ship, has only one single hull serving as the its primary buoyant structure. Spinning Stabilized Ship, which is a spinning marine vessel spherical monohull surface ship, is not sensitive to how it orients itself to waves that occur in Beaufort Extended Scale numbers 0-17. A Spinning Stabilized Ship is insensitive to how it orients itself to waves. Spinning Stabilized Ship, which is a spinning marine vessel spherical monohull surface ship, is not sensitive to how it orients itself to waves that occur in Beaufort Extended Scale numbers 0-17. A spinning spherical monohull surface ship has continuous rotational symmetry around an infinite number of axes. No matter how you tilt or spin a spinning spherical monohull surface ship, it presents the same profile from every angle. A three dimensional spinning spherical monohull surface ship 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 spin a spinning spherical monohull surface ship around any axis and by any angle and it will look completely identical to its starting position.  A spinning spherical monohull surface ship is geometrically defined as the set of all points in three dimensional 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 spinning spherical monohull surface ship shape. You can draw an infinite number of imaginary axis lines straight through the center of a spinning spherical monohull surface ship. No matter which of these axes you choose to spin the spinning spherical monohull surface ship around, its appearance remains unchanged. Therefore since a Spinning Stabilized Ship only spins around one engineered specific central vertical axis its appearance remains unchanged. The core difference between infinite continuous rotational symmetry and continuous rotational symmetry is the scope of the rotational freedom. Three dimensional infinite continuous rotational symmetry refers to full spherical symmetry where an object is invariant under rotation about any arbitrary axis, whereas three dimensional continuous rotational symmetry generally describes axial symmetry restricted to rotation around a single specific axis. Therefore Spinning Stabilized Ship, which is a spinning marine vessel spherical monohull surface ship, and with its infinite continuous rotational symmetry, 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 Extended Scale numbers 0-17. Spinning Stabilized Ship, which is a spinning marine vessel spherical monohull surface ship; when Beaufort Extended 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 two unique active and passive stabilization features of Spinning Stabilized Ship, which is a spinning marine vessel spherical monohull surface ship combined with the spinning of the entire ship for stabilization, it has extraordinary stability. The preferred embodiment of Spinning Stabilized Ship is a spinning marine vessel spherical monohull surface vessel 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 while engaging with monster rogue waves. Spinning Stabilized Ship, which is a spinning marine vessel spherical monohull surface ship, has only one hull serving as it's primary buoyant structure. Spinning Stabilized Ship has continuous infinite rotational symmetry around an infinite number of axes. No matter how you tilt or spin Spinning Stabilized Ship, it presents the same profile from every angle. A three dimensional Spinning Stabilized Ship has infinite continuous 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 spin Spinning Stabilized Ship around any axis and by any angle and it will look completely identical to its starting position. Spinning Stabilized Ship is geometrically defined as the set of all points in three dimensional 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 Spinning Stabilized Ship. No matter which of these axes you choose to spin Spinning Stabilized Ship around, its appearance always remains unchanged. The core difference between infinite continuous rotational symmetry and continuous rotational symmetry is the scope of the rotational freedom. Three dimensional infinite continuous rotational symmetry refers to full spherical symmetry where an object is invariant under rotation about any arbitrary axis, whereas three dimensional continuous rotational symmetry generally describes axial symmetry restricted to rotation around a single specific axis. Spinning Stabilized Ship, with it's infinite continuous rotational symmetry 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 Extended Scale numbers 0-17. The stabilizing features of Spinning Stabilized Ship, even while engaging monster rogue waves; when Beaufort Extended Scale numbers increase in magnitude, these motions are nearly eliminated and prevent catastrophic capsizing, sinking, hull fracture, hull separation, broaching, pitchpoling, swamping, etc. Therefore since a Spinning Stabilized Ship only spins on one engineered specific central vertical axis it's appearance remains  unchanged. Spinning Stabilized Ship, which its preferred embodiment is a spinning marine vessel spherical monohull surface ship, could be built as a non-preferred embodiment as a non-spherical spinning marine vessel monohull surface ship with spinning stabilization, but it would not perform as well for stabilization without being spherical. A non-spherical spinning marine vessel monohull surface ship could be build as a Spinning Stabilized Ship for special purposes and would benefit somewhat from spinning stabilization. The building of spinning non-spherical monohull marine vessel surface ships with spinning stabilization is mentioned because the major unique feature of this emerging marine vessel design utilizes the entire Spinning Stabilized Ship as a giant, slowly spinning, gyroscope to achieve unparalleled stability. There is a large number of different variations of spinning non-spherical monohull surface ships that would have continuous rotational symmetry but would not have infinite continuous rotational symmetry and it would be impossible to itemize all the possible variations herein. 

     SUMMARY

Spinning Stabilized Ship, which is a spinning marine vessel spherical monohull surface ship, is not oriented along a horizontal central longitudinal axis. The preferred embodiment of the invention named, Spinning Stabilized Ship, is a spinning marine vessel spherical monohull surface ship and; has the feature of spinning the entire spherical marine vessel surface ship monohull for stabilization. Spinning Stabilized Ships must be able to navigate with their spinning ship monohull stabilization when activated or deactivated, at will. Spinning Stabilized Ship's loaded displacement tonnage weight must be evenly distributed and be well balanced around its central vertical axis. Spinning Stabilized Ship serves in its entirety as its primary buoyant structure. 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; all utilize 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. Spinning Stabilized Ship has infinite continuous rotational symmetry around an infinite number of axes. No matter how you tilt or spin Spinning Stabilized Ship it presents the same profile from every angle. Three dimensional Spinning Stabilized Ship has infinite continuous 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 spin Spinning Stabilized Ship around any axis and by any angle and it will look completely identical to its starting position. Spinning Stabilized Ship is defined as the set of all points in three dimensional 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 Spinning Stabilized Ship. No matter which of these axes you choose to spin  Spinning Stabilized Ship around, its appearance remains unchanged. The core difference between infinite continuous rotational symmetry and continuous rotational symmetry is the scope of the rotational freedom. Three dimensional infinite continuous rotational symmetry refers to full spherical symmetry where an object is invariant under rotation about any arbitrary axis, whereas three dimensional continuous rotational symmetry generally describes axial symmetry restricted to rotation around a single specific axis. Therefore since  Spinning Stabilized Ship only spins on one engineered specific central vertical axis its appearance remains unchanged too. Therefore Spinning Stabilized Ship with its infinite continuous rotational symmetry, 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 found throughout the Beaufort Extended Scale numbers 0-17. The stabilizing features of Spinning Stabilized Ship; act together when Beaufort Extended Scale numbers increase in magnitude, these motions are nearly eliminated and prevent catastrophic capsizing, sinking, hull fracture, hull separation, broaching, pitchpoling, swamping, etc. 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The preferred embodiment of Spinning Stabilized Ship is a spherical marine vessel monohull spinning stabilized surface ship which has infinite continuous rotational symmetry 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, desalination 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 would 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 a large number of non-preferred embodiments as non-spherical spinning monohull surface ship variations which do not have infinite continuous rotationally symmetry. Therefore one can build a non-spherical spinning marine vessel monohull surface ship, which is a Spinning Stabilized Ship if the non-spherical monohull surface ship has continuous rotational single axial symmetry to allow for the spinning of the entire non-spherical monohull surface ship. Since all variations of non-spherical spinning monohull surface ship are not considered preferred embodiments of the invention there are too many variations to list. The preferred embodiment as well as a non-preferred embodiment of a Spinning Stabilized Ship have azimuthing omnidirectional thrusters which are marine propulsion units, housed in exterior or interior mounted steerable pods, that can rotate a full 360 degrees. By directing thrust in any horizontal direction, they eliminate the need for traditional rudders, providing vessels with unprecedented pinpoint maneuverability. 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 bottom of spinning stabilized ship's spherical or non-spherical monohull surface ship. All of the azimuthing omnidirectional thrusters are programmed to synchronously generate horizontal thrust for spinning the Spinning Stabilized Ship's entire marine vessel spherical monohull around its central vertical axis which generates gyroscopic stabilization and generate directional horizontal propulsion with a 360 degree range of propulsive horizontal thrust to propel, at will, Spinning Stabilized Ship in any direction. Spinning Stabilized Ship is a spinning marine vessel spherical monohull surface ship and can generate a 360 degree range of directional horizontal propulsive thrust when it isn't spinning. Spinning Stabilized Ship  can generate horizontal propulsion for spinning its entirety for stabilization when the Spinning Stabilized Ship is not making way and is using dynamic positioning to hold a fixed position. Spinning Stabilized Ship's loaded displacement tonnage weight of the entire marine vessel spherical monohull surface ship must have 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's mass at a gyroscopic spinning rate of speed which is tolerable and safe for humans onboard without generating excessive centrifugal force inside the interior of the monohull, 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 spinning spherical monohull surface ship and the amount of thrust  required to be generated by the azimuthing omnidirectional thrusters. A Spinning Stabilized Ship is a spinning spherical monohull surface ship serving as the vessel's primary buoyant structure. A Spinning Stabilized Ship has infinite continuous rotational symmetry around an infinite number of axes. No matter how you tilt or spin a Spinning Stabilized Ship, it presents the same profile from every angle. A three dimensional Spinning Stabilized Ship 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 spin a Spinning Stabilized Ship around any axis and by any angle and it will look completely identical to its starting position. Spinning Stabilized Ship is defined as the set of all points in three dimensional 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 Spinning Stabilized Ship. No matter which of these axes you choose to spin Spinning Stabilized Ship around, its appearance remains unchanged. Therefore since a Spinning Stabilized Ship only spins on one engineered specific central vertical axis its appearance remains unchanged. The core difference between infinite continuous rotational symmetry and continuous rotational symmetry is the scope of the rotational freedom. Three dimensional infinite continuous rotational symmetry refers to full spherical symmetry where an object is invariant under rotation about any arbitrary axis, whereas three dimensional continuous rotational symmetry generally describes axial symmetry restricted to rotation around a single specific axis. Therefore Spinning Stabilized Ship, with its infinite continuous rotational symmetry, 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 Extended Scale numbers 0-17. The stabilizing features of Spinning Stabilized Ship; act together when Beaufort Extended Scale numbers increase in magnitude, these motions are nearly eliminated and prevent catastrophic capsizing, sinking, hull fracture, hull separation, broaching, pitchpoling, swamping, etc. 

CONCLUSION

CLAIM 1. The preferred embodiment of Spinning Stabilized Ship is a spinning spherical marine vessel monohull surface ship which has infinite continuous rotational symmetry, where its entirety  is invariant under rotation about any arbitrary axis, and can spin, at will, its entirety around a specific single central vertical axis. 

CLAIM 2. Non-preferred embodiments alternative variations of Spinning Stabilized Ship are non-spherical spinning monohull marine vessel surface ships which do not have infinite continuous rotational symmetry but do have continuous rotational single axial symmetry, which is restricted to only one specific axis, and can spin, at will, their entireties around their specific single central vertical  axes.

CLAIM 3. The preferred embodiment of Spinning Stabilized Ship is a spinning spherical marine vessel monohull surface ship which has infinite continuous rotational symmetry and can generate directional horizontal propulsive thrust using multiple azimuthing omnidirectional thrusters, which are mounted on its bottom as a propulsion system to propel, at will, its entirety in a full 360 degree range of direction.

CLAIM 4. Non-preferred embodiments alternative variations of  Spinning Stabilized Ship are non-spherical spinning marine vessel monohull surface ships which do not have infinite continuous rotational symmetry but do have continuous rotational single axial symmetry so they can generate directional horizontal propulsive thrust using multiple azimuthing omnidirectional thrusters, which are mounted on their bottoms as a propulsion system to propel, at will, their entireties in a full 360 degree range of direction.

CLAIM 5. The preferred embodiment of Spinning Stabilized Ship is a spinning spherical marine vessel monohull surface ship which has infinite rotational symmetry and is a spherical marine vessel monohull surface ship which can generate horizontal thrust to spin, at will, its entirety around its central 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 6. Non-preferred embodiments alternative variations of Spinning Stabilized Ship are spinning non-spherical marine vessel monohull surface ships which do not have infinite continuous rotational symmetry but do have continuous rotational single axial symmetry so they can generate horizontal thrust to spin, at will, their entireties around their central vertical axes to generate gyroscopic stabilization using multiple azimuthing omnidirectional  thrusters, which are mounted on their bottoms and are individually capable of directing thrust in a full 360 degree range of direction.

CLAIM 7. The preferred embodiment of Spinning Stabilized Ship has infinite continuous rotational symmetry and is a spinning spherical marine vessel monohull surface ship which can generate horizontal thrust to synchronously spin, at will, its entirety around its central vertical axis and propel, at will, its entirety by generating directional horizontal propulsive thrust in a 360 degree range around its central vertical axis using multiple azimuthing omnidirectional thrusters. 

CLAIM 8. Non-preferred embodiments of alternative variations of Spinning Stabilized Ship are spinning marine vessel non-spherical monohull surface ships which do not have infinite continuous rotational symmetry but do have continuous rotational single axial symmetry so they can generate horizontal thrust to synchronously spin, at will, their entireties around their central vertical axes and propel, at will, their entireties by generating directional horizontal propulsive thrust in a 360 degree range around their central vertical axes using multiple azimuthing omnidirectional thrusters.

CLAIM 9. The preferred embodiment and the non-preferred embodiments of Spinning Stabilized Ship can operate, at will, in the following operational states of motion in water; underway without spinning, underway while spinning, holding station without spinning, holding station while spinning, drifting without spinning and drifting while spinning.

CLAIM 10. The preferred embodiment and the non-preferred embodiments of Spinning Stabilized Ship have the feature that the speed of the spinning rate of the marine vessel spherical monohull surface ship can be adjusted, at will, to a faster or slower speed of spinning rate at any time to adjust to sea conditions.

CLAIM 11. The preferred embodiment of Spinning Stabilized Ship, which is a spinning marine vessel spherical monohull surface ship, with its infinite continuous rotational symmetry, 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 Extended Scale numbers 0-17. Spinning Stabilized Ship which is a spinning marine vessel spherical monohull surface ship; when Beaufort Extended Scale numbers increase in magnitude these motions are nearly eliminated and prevent catastrophic capsizing, sinking, hull fracture, hull separation, broaching, pitchpoling, swamping, etc.