Patent ID: 11926232
Assignee: WPC WIRELESS POWER AND COMMUNICATION AS
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  Y | IPC B  H

Claim 8:
9. A method for docking a submarine vessel on a submarine docking port, said submarine vessel is being provided with a submarine navigation system, the method comprising navigating said submarine vessel to a first position at a first distance from the docking port, wherein at least one primary coil on the docking port emits a magnetic field, and wherein the submarine vessel is provided with an electronics adapted to measure the strength of the magnetic field received by a second coil on the sub-marine vessel, wherein a positioning electronics guides the submarine vessel by trial and error in the horizontal plane (X-Y plane) to locate a position where the magnetic field is at a local maximum and wherein the positioning electronics guides the submarine vessel in the vertical direction (Z-direction) until the submarine vessel is correctly docketed onto the docking port.