SUBSEA TOOL CHANGER

Number of patents in Portfolio can not be more than 2000

United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20150141224A1
SERIAL NO

14554405

Stats

ATTORNEY / AGENT: (SPONSORED)

Importance

Loading Importance Indicators... loading....

Abstract

See full text

A subsea tool changer comprises a housing; a rotatable carousel rotatably mounted within the housing and adapted to receive a plurality of selectively removable tools; a tool changer that can select a predetermined one of the plurality of tools from the carousel; and a power drive adapted to provide a predetermined function to a tool selected by the tool changer, the power drive further comprising a first power drive interface. In typical use, a selectively removable tool is placed onto the rotatable carousel which is rotated so that a desired selectively removable tool is positioned adjacent to a tool driver which is then mated with the desired selectively removable tool. The tool changer and mated selected removable tool are moved outward toward an outer boundary of the housing and the tool changer extended at least partially outside the housing outward towards a predetermined tool working position. The tool changer is then pivoted to position the selected removable tool to its predetermined tool working position.

Loading the Abstract Image... loading....

First Claim

See full text

Family

Loading Family data... loading....

Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddress
OCEANEERING INTERNATIONAL INCHOUSTON TX

International Classification(s)

Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
McCoy,, JR Richard W Cypress, US 7 62

Cited Art Landscape

Load Citation

Patent Citation Ranking

Forward Cite Landscape

Load Citation