B
SECTION B — PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  
TRANSPORTING
 B60
VEHICLES IN GENERAL
 B60

Note(s)

In this class, the following term is used with the meaning indicated:

 B60V
AIR-CUSHION VEHICLES (devices for short-distance movement of heavy loads by providing a high-pressure fluid cushion, supplied from an independent source, between load and ground B65G 7/06)
 B60V

Note(s)

In this subclass, the following expression is used with the meaning indicated:

  • "air-cushion vehicles" includes all vehicles which are wholly or partly supported on land or water by air or other gaseous cushions.

 B60V 1/00
Air-cushion vehicles (land vehicles, waterborne vessels, or aircraft adapted or modified to travel on air cushions B60V 3/00)
 B60V 1/02
·  wherein the cushion is generated and contained by at least one peripheral fluid curtain
 B60V 1/04
·  wherein the cushion is contained at least in part by walls
 B60V 1/06
·  wherein the cushion is formed within plenum chamber
 B60V 1/08
·  wherein the cushion is created during forward movement of the vehicle by ram effect
 B60V 1/10
·  in which the curtain-forming nozzle or the vehicle base is shaped to create a vortex curtain
 B60V 1/11
·  Stability or attitude control  [2]
 B60V 1/12
·  ·  by dividing the cushion  [2]
 B60V 1/14
·  Propulsion; Control thereof (B60V 1/11 takes precedence)  [2]
 B60V 1/15
·  ·  using part of the cushion-forming fluid  [2]
 B60V 1/16
·  Flexible skirts
 B60V 1/18
·  Body structure
 B60V 1/20
·  Spray deflectors
 B60V 1/22
·  provided with hydrofoils (hydrofoils per se B63B 1/24)
 B60V 3/00
Land vehicles, waterborne vessels, or aircraft, adapted or modified to travel on air cushions
 B60V 3/02
·  Land vehicles, e.g. road vehicles
 B60V 3/04
·  ·  co-operating with rails or other guiding means, e.g. with air cushion between rail and vehicle
 B60V 3/06
·  Waterborne vessels
 B60V 3/08
·  Aircraft, e.g. air-cushion alighting-gear therefor