| US 7,537,500 B2 | ||
| Ship driven by inboard engines and water jets | ||
| Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud, Berlin (Germany); Hannes Schulze Horn, Gladbeck (Germany); and Kay Tigges, Harsefeld (Germany) | ||
| Assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (Germany) | ||
| Appl. No. 11/587,575 PCT Filed Apr. 14, 2005, PCT No. PCT/DE2005/000670 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Oct. 25, 2006, PCT Pub. No. WO2005/105571, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 10, 2005. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 10 2004 021 273 (DE), filed on Apr. 29, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0232158 A1, Oct. 04, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. B63H 11/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 440—79 | 13 Claims |
| 1. A marine vessel, comprising:
inboard electric motors with propellers, the electric inboard motors accommodated in skegs underneath a marine vessel;
waterjets to produce jets of water, the waterjets arranged under a bottom of the marine vessel;
a flow channel for the jets of water emitted from the waterjets formed between the skegs and behind the waterjets, the flow
channel to start in an area at the bottom of the marine vessel, and to rise with a continuous profile towards a stern of the
marine vessel; and
a guide wedge arranged in the front part of the flow channel having an apex to point towards the stern of the marine vessel
and an approximately triangular cross section with the result that the jets from the waterjets are concentrated in the center
of the flow channel between the propellers of the inboard motors.
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