A submarine trails one fiber optic cable and an undersea vehicle is controlled by this first cable. A missile/torpedo trails a second cable that is to be coupled to the first cable. The second cable has a segment suspended vertically underwater between a buoyant pod and a sea anchor type buoy. The undersea vehicle, or Autonomous Undersea Vehicle, (AUV) hunts for the pod by conventional homing means. A forked cable pickup device in the nose of the AUV captures the suspended cable segment directing it into a slot so a male socket in the underside of the pod mates with a female socket in the slot.
System for Effecting Underwater Coupling of Optical Fiber Cables Characterized by a Novel V-Probe Cable Capture Mechanism
1993
20 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Underwater Ordnance , Electrotechnology , Mechanical Devices & Equipment , Patent applications , Underwater cables , Cable grips , Underwater vehicles , Couplings , Anchors , Buoys , Cables , Fiber optics , Homing , Slots , Submarines , Torpedoes , Fiber optics transmission lines , Buoyancy , Autonomous undersea vehicles
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