US 11,939,030 B1
Marine information integrated online monitoring buoy system
Chaoxing Ren, Beihai (CN); and Wenlu Lan, Beihai (CN)
Assigned to Marine Environment Monitoring Center Station of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Beihai (CN)
Filed by Marine Environment Monitoring Center Station of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Beihai (CN)
Filed on Aug. 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/455,634.
Claims priority of application No. 202211188319.2 (CN), filed on Sep. 28, 2022.
Int. Cl. B63B 22/04 (2006.01); B63B 22/00 (2006.01)
CPC B63B 22/04 (2013.01) [B63B 2022/006 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A marine monitoring buoy, comprising
a buoy body (10), wherein a buoy upper layer apparatus (20) is disposed on the buoy body (10);
a monitoring system disposed on the buoy body (10) or the buoy upper layer apparatus (20) and comprising a plurality of monitoring instruments, wherein the plurality of monitoring instruments comprise at least a state sensor (11), a water quality monitor (15), a hydrological monitor (16) and a meteorological monitoring instrument (24);
an energy system disposed on the buoy upper layer apparatus (20) or inside the buoy body (10), and comprising a solar power supply apparatus and a storage battery (12) apparatus;
a data acquisition and control system disposed inside the buoy body (10), and having a storage function; wherein
a protection apparatus (40) is disposed outside the buoy body (10) and connected to the buoy body (10) through a bearing (17), convex strips (19) are disposed on a bearing outer ring (18) on a side surface of the bearing (17), a connecting rod (41) is disposed at an end of the bearing outer ring (18), the bearing outer ring (18) is connected to a floating ring (42) through the connecting rod (41), two floating rings (42) are disposed correspondingly, and a protective cylinder (43) is disposed between the floating rings (42) and sleeved with a protective retaining ring (44);
the protective cylinder (43) is hollow inside, provided with strip-shaped through grooves (431) and sleeved with the protective retaining ring (44), and a bearing (432) is disposed at an end of the protective cylinder (43) and connected to the floating rings; and
a protective retainer (445) is correspondingly disposed on the protective retaining ring (44), and a through hole (443) and a friction block (444) are disposed on the protective retainer (445).