Air Supported Vessels (ASV) - an innovative approach to reduce hull resistance and improve performance - suitable for various naval and commercial applications

摘要

The author has since 1998 been actively involved in R & D on various Air Assisted Vessel solutions with the overall goal to supply fast vessel technology with capabilities and performance beyond existing State of the Art (SOA) conventional solutions. The research has been highly market driven, where different applications and segments have been addressed individually to meet end users requirements and operational missions. Solutions have been developed for naval, paramilitary, commercial and pleasure boat end-users. The market leading hull forms today are generally quite conventional, and do not differ very much from the corresponding hull forms used some 20 years ago. The fast vessel industry generally agrees that quite radical design changes will be required to develop the "next generation of fast vessels and ships". As to the intellectual property rights situation, Norwegian patent application 2002 0867 was filed 2002-02-22 and has now matured into Norwegian patent NO 315 231. With claim of priority from this Norwegian application patent applications were filed in several countries and region together with international PCT application. From said international patent application the national phase was entered for several countries and regions. US Patent and several other national patents have been granted.