AUTONOMOUS DRIFTING PROFILING OCEANOLOGIC BUOY Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC B63B22/18 B63B22/20 

FIELD: measurement technology.

SUBSTANCE: autonomous drifting profiling oceanologic buoy contains a streamlined sealed rugged housing, made in the form of a cylinder. On the top cover of the body the aerial navigation and communication systems, sensors of electrical conductivity, temperature and pressure are installed. Outside on the bottom cover the expansion container is installed. Inside the housing tank with hydraulic fluid, connected by the hydraulic lines to the expansion container, electric pump and power supply are mounted. The pump is fixed on the inner side of the bottom cover for injection and selection of working fluid into the expansion container from the tank installed inside the housing. In the central part of the housing the electronic control unit and a linear actuator, on which is fixed the power unit with the possibility of moving up and down at a distance of 50-100 mm are mounted.

EFFECT: possibility of increasing the number of obtained oceanologic data.

2 cl, 5 dwg