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Offshore platform for a marine environment

  • US 9,567,720 B2
  • Filed: 04/11/2012
  • Issued: 02/14/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An offshore platform for a marine environment, the platform configured to support offshore wind turbines, bridges and marine buildings thereon and adapted for a water depth greater than 5 meters in the marine environment, comprising:

  • a regulating tower section supporting at least one offshore wind turbine thereon,at least one hollow, cylindrical buoyancy tube having an upper end attached to the regulating tower section and a tapered lower end extending downward from the tower section towards a seabed of the marine environment, anda concrete bed cast beneath a surface of the seabed and configured to support the tapered lower end of the at least one buoyancy tube therein, whereinthe tapered lower end is a cone-shaped bottom slab having a flat top surface with the apex of the cone-shaped bottom slab pointing downward towards the seabed,the concrete bed within the seabed includes a mirror-image or reversed cone-shaped indentation that is to receive the cone-shaped bottom slab therein, the reversed cone-shaped indentation having been formed in the concrete bed by the cone-shaped bottom slab of the at least one buoyancy tube prior to the concrete bed hardening to a final design strength, andthe cone-shaped bottom slab is fixedly secured within the reverse cone-shaped indention of the concrete bed to support the regulating tower section with the at least one offshore wind turbine thereon.

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