US 12,187,391 B2
Floating metal platform
Eivind Sønju, Son (NO)
Assigned to Clovers AS, Son (NO)
Appl. No. 17/763,931
Filed by Clovers AS, Son (NO)
PCT Filed Sep. 23, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/076517
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 25, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/058531, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 1, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20191156 (NO), filed on Sep. 25, 2019; application No. 20191179 (NO), filed on Oct. 2, 2019; and application No. 20200815 (NO), filed on Jul. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0332395 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. B63B 35/44 (2006.01); B63B 1/12 (2006.01); F03D 13/25 (2016.01)
CPC B63B 35/44 (2013.01) [B63B 1/125 (2013.01); F03D 13/25 (2016.05); B63B 2035/446 (2013.01); F05B 2240/93 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A floating wind turbine metal platform for supporting a wind turbine, wherein the platform comprises:
three elongated elements, wherein each elongated element comprises:
a first elongated member;
a second elongated member parallel to the first elongated member; and
at least a first buoyancy element connected to the first elongated member and the second elongated member,
wherein each elongated element has a first end and an opposite second end,
wherein one of the first end and the second end of each of the elongated elements is connected to one of the first end and the second end of at least one of the other elongated elements,
wherein the first elongated member comprises a first end portion, a second opposite end portion and therebetween an intermediate portion,
wherein the second elongated member comprises a first end portion, a second opposite end portion and therebetween an intermediate portion,
wherein at least one of the first buoyancy element is cylinder-shaped,
wherein the first buoyancy element is connected to the intermediate portions of the first elongated member and the second elongated member,
wherein at least one of the elongated members of each elongated element is a stiffened plate, and
wherein each elongated element further comprises a stiffening means for stiffening of parallel elongated members.