Patent Application
20250214679
This application is based upon and claims priority to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2023-0196254, filed on Dec. 29, 2023, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The present disclosure relates to a floating structure, and more particularly, to a swivel-type floating structure using buoyancy capable of lifting while stably mooring the floating structure floated by a buoyant force when a water level of rivers or seas raise.
In general, various facilities installed in low-lying areas or embankments such as riverside, beach, or waterside are installed on floating structures with buoyancy to float on their own due to a buoyant force in case the installation site is submerged in water to prevent flooding, loss or damage due to overflowing of river or lake and rising river water level.
These floating structures may be classified as a drifting type or a mooring type according to the floating method.
That is, the drifting type floating structures are applied to a small-scale facility installed in a limited floating area such as reservoirs as they have no means of fixing the floating body, and cannot be applied in flowing water environments such as rivers.
In addition, the mooring type floating structures is configured to prevent the drift of the floating body by connecting the floating body and the ground or the fixed structure in a mooring manner under conditions such as a high-level stream area on the river.
Patent Document 1 discloses a water surface floating-type facility including a plurality of guide piles erected on four sides at regular intervals on the ground to guide a buoyant body to lift, a buoyant body that floats on water due to buoyancy and lifts according to the guide of the guide piles, and has hollow sleeves built in the four sides corresponding to the positions of the guide piles, a plurality of outer pipes erected on the four sides above the buoyant body so that upper portions of the guide piles are inserted therein, preventing the exposure of the guide piles and lifting the buoyant body in parallel without tilting, a plurality of sliding rollers attached to the inner upper portions of the sleeves in four sides to freely rotate up and down so that the buoyant body slides along the guide piles when lifted by buoyancy, and a guide bush attached to the inner lower portions of the sleeves to lift the buoyant body in parallel without tilting.
However, the conventional floating structure has a complex assembly and installation structure as a whole, and has numerous components, and thus has a problem that it takes an excessive cost to replace them with new parts and maintain them when they are damaged or broken after installation.
The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a swivel-type floating structure using buoyancy capable of lifting while stably mooring the floating structure floated by a buoyant force when a water level of rivers or seas raise by the swivel operation of the swivel structure connecting the floating structure and the ground.
The technical problems to be achieved in the present disclosure are not limited to the technical problems mentioned above, and other technical problems that are not mentioned can be clearly understood by a person having ordinary knowledge in the technical field to which the present disclosure belongs from the description below.
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a swivel-type floating structure using buoyancy, including: a buoyant plate configured to have a buoyancy to float on a surface of water; one or more first link bars configured to have one end rotatably assembled to at least one first plate bracket fixed to both sides of the buoyant plate by means of a pin, and the other end rotatably assembled to a first ground bracket fixed to a ground adjacent to the buoyant plate by means of another pin; and one or more second link bars configured to have one end rotatably assembled to at least one second plate bracket fixed to a first end of the buoyant plate by means of a pin, and the other end rotatably assembled to a second ground bracket fixed to a ground adjacent to the first ground bracket by means of another pin.
In this case, the first link bar may include a pair of first plate brackets provided on both ends of the first end of the buoyant plate, and a pair of link bars of a predetermined length disposed in pairs with each end thereof rotatably connected, and the second link bar includes a second plate bracket provided on a second end of the buoyant plate and one link bar of a predetermined length disposed between a pair of first link bars with one end thereof rotatably connected.
In this case, the first link bar may include a pair of first plate brackets provided on both ends of the first end of the buoyant plate, and a pair of link bars of a predetermined length disposed in pairs with each end thereof rotatably connected, and the second link bars include a pair of second plate brackets provided on both sides of the second end of the buoyant plate and a pair of link bars disposed in parallel with the first link bar with each end thereof rotatably connected.
In this case, the first link bar and the second link bar may include an upper link pipe having upper end rotatably assembled to the first and second plate brackets fixed to the buoyant plate and having an elongated guide hole formed at a lower portion, and a lower link bar having lower end rotatably assembled to the first and second ground brackets fixed to the ground, an upper end inserted into an opened lower end of the upper link pipe to be reciprocated, and a latching guide bar engaged with the elongated guide hole.
In this case, the first link bar and the second link bar may be disposed parallel to each other.
In accordance with the above configuration, the swivel-type floating structure using buoyancy according to the present disclosure includes a buoyant plate and first and second link bars of a predetermined length, each of which has upper and lower ends rotatably connected to the ground by means of a pin, so that the first and second link bars are swirled up and down in conjunction with the change in height of the buoyant plate lifted due to buoyancy when the level is raised, so that the buoyant plate including the facility can be stably moored to the ground without being lost or damaged, and when the flood is released, the buoyant plate can be settled and returned to its original state on the ground.
It should be understood that the effects of the present disclosure are not limited to the above-described effects, and include all effects that can be inferred from the detailed description of the present disclosure or the configuration of the invention described in the claims.
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail to be easily performed by a person with ordinary skills in the art to which the present disclosure belongs with reference to the accompanying drawings. The present disclosure may be implemented in various different forms and is not limited to the embodiments described herein. In order to clearly explain the present disclosure, parts unrelated to the description in the drawings have been omitted, and the same reference numerals are assigned to identical or similar components throughout the specification.
The words and terms used in this specification and the claims are not interpreted as limited to ordinary or dictionary meanings, but should be interpreted as meanings and concepts consistent with the technical idea of the present disclosure according to the principle in which the inventor can define the terms and concepts in order to best explain their invention.
Therefore, the embodiments described in this specification and the configurations illustrated in the drawings correspond to a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, and do not represent all of the technical ideas of the present disclosure, so the corresponding configuration may have various equivalents and modified examples that can replace it at the time of filing the present disclosure.
In this specification, the terms “include” or “have” and the like are intended to describe the presence of features, numbers, steps, operations, components, parts or combinations thereof described in the specification, and should not be construed as excluding the presence or addition of one or more other features, numbers, steps, operations, components, parts or combinations thereof.
It is noted that a component is in the “front”, “rear”, “upper” or “lower” of another component, unless otherwise specified, not only that it is disposed in the “front”, “rear”, “upper” or “lower” immediately adjacent to the other component, but also when another component is positioned in between. In addition, the fact that a component is “connected” to another component includes not only directly connected to each other but also indirectly connected to each other unless otherwise specified.
Hereinafter, a swivel-type floating structure using buoyancy according to an embodiment of the present disclosure will be described with reference to the drawings.
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On an upper surface of the buoyant plate 10, a facility 40 that may be used by the public may be installed.
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The first link bar 20 has the other end rotatably assembled by means of a first ground bracket 24 and another pin 25 fixedly installed on the ground by anchors (not shown) adjacent to the buoyant plate 10.
In this case, the first link bar 20 may include a pair of first plate brackets 21 provided on both sides of the first end of the buoyant plate 10 and a pair of link bars of a predetermined length disposed in pairs with each end thereof rotatably connected.
Accordingly, when the water level rises, the first link bar rotates upward or downward with the pin of the first ground bracket as the center of rotation in conjunction with the change in height of the buoyant plate that is raised and lowered in accordance with the water level rise, thereby maintaining a state of connection with the buoyant plate while mooring it to the ground together with the second link bar.
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The second link bar 30 has the other end rotatably assembled by means of a second ground bracket 34 fixedly installed to the ground by anchors (not shown) at a predetermined distance from the first ground bracket 24 and another pin 35.
In this case, the second link bar 30 may include a second plate bracket 31 provided in the center of the second end of the buoyant plate 10 and one link bar disposed between a pair of first link bars 20 with one end thereof rotatably connected. Accordingly, when the water level rises, the second link bar rotates upward or downward with the pin of the second ground bracket as the center of rotation in conjunction with the change in height of the buoyant plate that is raised and lowered in accordance with the water level rise, thereby maintaining a state of connection with the buoyant plate while mooring it to the ground together with the first link bar.
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The facility 40 may include a frame structure composed of a plurality of vertical members 41 and a horizontal member 42, and a rainproof structure 43 provided on the upper portion of the frame structure to avoid sunlight or rain.
At this time, it is preferable that the facility 40 be formed of an assembly structure made of lightweight materials so that the rotational ascent and descent of the buoyant plate can be smoothly performed and the installation and disassembly may be easily performed.
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Since the buoyant plate 10 and the first link bar 20 are the same as above-described configuration, the same reference numerals are given to the same members, and detailed descriptions thereof will be omitted.
The second link bar 30A may include a pair of second plate brackets 31A provided on both sides of the second end of the buoyant plate and a pair of link bars disposed in parallel with the first link bar 20A with each end thereof rotatably connected. Accordingly, when the water level rises, the pair of second link bars connected to the ground rotates upward or downward with the pin of the second ground bracket as the center of rotation in conjunction with the change in height of the buoyant plate that is raised and lowered in accordance with the water level rise, thereby maintaining a state of connection with the buoyant plate while stably mooring it to the ground together with the pair of first link bars connected to the buoyant plate.
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The buoyant plate 10 may include a plurality of fixing-plates 14 having a plurality of fixed holes through which an inlet of the container 13 is inserted and fixed so that the container 13 may be positioned vertically inside the buoyant box 12.
The cover 11 may include a plurality of covers one-to-one corresponding to the plurality of fixing-plates 14 to replace and mount for each group a plurality of containers 13 disposed vertically for each of the plurality of fixing-plates.
In addition, the buoyant box 12 may include a buoyant material such as Styrofoam floating on water to generate buoyancy, or may include a single internal buoyant body having a predetermined internal space filled with external air through an inlet.
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The first link bar 20 and the second link bar 30 (or 30A) may include upper link pipe 23A (or 33A) having upper end rotatably assembled to the first and second plate brackets fixed to the buoyant plate and having an elongated guide hole ‘S’ formed longitudinally at a lower portion.
The first link bar 20 and the second link bar 30 (or 30A) may include lower link bar 23B (or 33B) having lower end rotatably assembled to the first and second ground brackets fixed to the ground, an upper end inserted into an opened lower end of the upper link pipe to be reciprocated, and a latching guide bar ‘P’ engaged with the elongated guide hole ‘S’.
In this case, the first and second link bars 20 and 30 (or 30A) formed of the upper link pipe 23A (or 33A) and the lower link bar 23B (or 33B) like the first and second link bars 20 and 30 formed by the integrated-type link bar, rotates upward or downward around the pin of the second ground bracket in accordance with the height change of the buoyant plate 10 ascended and descended according to the height of the water level.
In addition, the lower link bar 23B (or 33B) connected to the first or second ground bracket fixedly installed on the ground is assembled to be reciprocally movable at the opened lower end of the upper link pipe 23A (or 33A) connected to the buoyant plate 10 ascended and descended according to the height of the water level, and the latching guide bar ‘P’ of the lower link bar 23B (or 33B) may be hooked, guided and moved to the elongated guide hole ‘S’ of the upper link pipe 23A (or 33A).
In this case, since the first and second link bars composed of the upper link pipe and the lower link bar may extend the entire length long, the buoyant plate 10 that is raised and lowered in accordance with the water level elevation height may be prevented from being submerged under the water surface, and the first and second link bars may stably guarantee the up and down rotation operation in conjunction with the maximum rise height of the buoyant plate 10.
Although the embodiments of the present disclosure are described, the spirit of the present disclosure is not limited by the embodiments presented in this specification, and those skilled in the art who understand the spirit of the present disclosure may easily propose other embodiments by adding, changing, deleting, and adding components within the same spirit, but this is also within the scope of the spirit of the present disclosure.
[PROJECT UNIQUE NUMBER] 1315002037
[PROJECT NUMBER] 00255650
[MINISTRY NAME] MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR AND SAFETY
[PROJECT MANAGEMENT (SPECIALIZED) AGENCY NAME] KOREA INDUSTRIAL & EVALUATION INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY
[RESEARCH PROJECT NAME] NATIONAL DEMAND-CUSTOMIZED LIVING SAFETY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (STAGE 2) (R&D)
[RESEARCH PROJECT NAME] DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION OF URBAN FLOOD SMART SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM USING RESOURCE RECYCLING MULTI-CELL BUOYS
[CONTRIBUTION RATE] 1/1
[PROJECT EXECUTING AGENCY NAME] DAEHEUNG INDUSTRY
[RESEARCH PERIOD] 2023.04.01˜ 2025.12.31
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-2023-0196254 | Dec 2023 | KR | national |
