Presentation of the Elmer A. Sperry Award for 2010 to Takuma Yamaguchi for his invention of the ARTICOUPLE, a versatile scheme to connect tugboats and barges to form an articulated tug and barge (AT/B) waterborne transportation system operational with variable draft barges in rough seas. His initial design has led to the development of many different types of couplers that have resulted in the worldwide use of connected tug and barges for inland waterways, coastal waters and open ocean operation /
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[United States] :
Elmer A. Sperry Board of Award,
[2010]
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