Patent ID: 6058848
Filing Date: 2000-05-09
Classification: A63G,B60F,B63G,B63H

Abstract:
An underwater and land travel system comprising a vehicle body which has a vehicle capsule releasably placed on an upper portion thereof and which is capable of being moved along travel rails which are laid to extend from on the land into the water under influence of the buoyancy of the vehicle body in the water and under the force of gravity on the land, the vehicle body and the vehicle capsule being connected to each other by a wire, and a drawing and rewinding device disposed in the vehicle body for drawing and rewinding the wire, the vehicle capsule being separated from the vehicle body in the state in which the vehicle body has been moved in the water, and the vehicle capsule being floated in the water or on the water by the drawing and rewinding device for drawing the wire at a certain length, and wherein:a self-traveling device is mounted on said vehicle capsule,the self-traveling device can be operated in the state in which the vehicle capsule is separated from said vehicle body,a float control mechanism is mounted on said vehicle capsule for controlling a floating position and a floating direction,the wire may be removed from the vehicle capsule in the state in which the vehicle capsule is separated from the vehicle body, andsaid vehicle capsule is movable in the water and on the water by itself by means of the self-traveling device and the float control mechanism.