Ship propulsion unit
    23.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10569852B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-25

    申请号:US16078187

    申请日:2016-12-08

    摘要: A ship propulsion unit includes: an engine including a crankshaft extending in a front-rear direction of a ship; a propeller shaft; a power transmission mechanism configured to couple the crankshaft and the propeller shaft; an upper case; and a lower case accommodating the propeller shaft and connected to the upper case. The power transmission mechanism includes a drive shaft extending from the upper case toward the lower case. The upper case and the engine are fixed to a ship body. A connection portion between the upper case and the lower case is provided with a rotation mechanism configured to rotate the lower case around an axis of the drive shaft.

    FLOATING VESSEL WITH GEARLESS POD PROPULSOR HAVING COUNTER ROTATING PROPELLERS

    公开(公告)号:US20190389553A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-26

    申请号:US16452350

    申请日:2019-06-25

    摘要: A floating vessel with gearless pod propulsor and counter rotating propellers is secured to a hull, each pod having a lead propeller and a trailing propeller, each propeller connected to a shaft connected to either a stator and rotor or a hydraulic motor. A lead propeller turns in a first direction and a trailing propeller turns in an opposite direction simultaneously, generating thrust for the floating vessel along a thrust vector using the counter rotation of the trailing propeller to recover swirling energy from the lead propeller improving propulsive efficiency of the floating vessel. The pod is positioned below a water line of the floating vessel providing propulsion for the floating vessel without gears.

    THRUSTER FOR PROPELLING A WATERCRAFT
    25.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190382092A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-19

    申请号:US16485135

    申请日:2018-02-16

    摘要: A thruster (1) for propelling a watercraft comprises at least one propeller (11, 12) on a rotatable propeller shaft (13, 14) and a motor (20) for driving the propeller shaft (13, 14) through a drive arrangement, particularly a drive arrangement comprising a rotatable drive shaft (31) and a coupling arrangement (32) arranged between the drive shaft (31) and an output shaft (22) of the motor (20) for coupling the drive shaft (31) to the output shaft (22) of the motor (20). The motor (20) is a permanent magnet motor, the stator body (21) of the motor (20) being provided with a recess (23) surrounding at least a part of the output shaft (22) of the motor (20), and the coupling arrangement (32) being at least partially located inside the recess (23) so that a 10 configuration having minimal constructional height is obtained.

    Manual jack plate
    27.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10464649B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-05

    申请号:US16044997

    申请日:2018-07-25

    申请人: John Martin Wood

    发明人: John Martin Wood

    摘要: A vertically adjustable jack plate configured to attach an outboard motor (or analogous device) to the transom of a marine vessel. A transom bracket is provided for connection to the vessel. A motor mounting plate is connected to the transom bracket. A lift jack vertically adjusts the position of the motor mounting plate with respect to the transom bracket. The lift jack incorporates a drive shaft that is used to vary an amount of extension or the lift jack. A handle is provided on the drive shaft. In operation, the user must preferably engage the handle to the drive shaft in order to turn the drive shaft. In a preferred embodiment the user must push the handle inward toward the lift jack in order to engage the handle to the drive shaft.

    LIFTING SPINDLE ARRANGEMENT FOR A RETRACTABLE THRUSTER UNIT OF A MARINE VESSEL

    公开(公告)号:US20190291835A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-26

    申请号:US16439106

    申请日:2019-06-12

    发明人: Jan VAN DE SANDE

    IPC分类号: B63H5/125 F16H25/20

    摘要: A lifting spindle arrangement is disclosed for a retractable thruster unit of a marine vessel, the lifting spindle having a lower end and an upper end and being supported at its lower end to a lower support structure by a lower support assembly and at its upper end to an upper support structure by an upper support assembly. The lifting spindle is provided at its both ends with a locking member for such a connection to the support structures such that each end of the lifting spindle may freely move in an axial direction away from the opposite end of the lifting spindle.

    Propulsion unit
    30.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10259551B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-16

    申请号:US15350082

    申请日:2016-11-13

    申请人: ABB Oy

    发明人: Tomi Veikonheimo

    IPC分类号: B63H5/15 B63H21/17 B63H5/125

    摘要: A support strut has an upper end rotatable supported at a bottom of a vessel and a lower end supporting a casing. A first electric motor within the casing drives a propeller via a first shaft. An annular nozzle surrounds an outer perimeter of the propeller and is fixedly supported on the casing, with a support construction comprising at least three vanes extending in the radial direction between the outer perimeter of the casing and the inner perimeter of the nozzle. A duct for water flow is formed through the interior of the annular nozzle. The propeller pulls the vessel in a driving direction. The vanes are positioned after the propeller in the driving direction of the vessel, whereby the vanes are optimized for redirecting rotational flow components of the flow produced by the propeller into axial thrust.