Patent ID: 9505478
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: B63G,B63H,F42B,H01M,Y02E

Claim Text:
1. An underwater vehicle comprising: a shaped casing elongated in an axial direction and designed to move in an underwater environment under a thrust of a propulsion system housed inside the shaped casing and powered by a power generator also housed inside the shaped casing, wherein the shaped casing comprises at least one tubular portion having a structural function; said tubular portion being lapped externally by seawater, said tubular portion defining at least one channel delimited by ribs that extend along a helical path coaxial to said axial direction, said channel extends along said helical path between a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, said tubular portion forming a heat exchanger between fluid that flows in said channel and the seawater that laps an outside of said tubular portion.