US 7,614,925 B2
	Transportable outboard motor
Friedrich Boebel, Eurasburg (Germany); Klaus Kraft, Blaustein (Germany); and Heinrich Walk, Allmendingen (Germany)
Assigned to Torqeedo GmbH, Starnberg (Germany)
Filed on Aug. 29, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/511,317.
Claims priority of application No. 05018833 (EP), filed on Aug. 30, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0049138 A1, Mar. 01, 2007
Int. Cl. B60L 11/00 (2006.01); B63H 21/17 (2006.01); B63H 1/14 (2006.01); B63H 5/20 (2006.01); B63H 5/125 (2006.01); B63H 20/08 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 440—6  [440/49; 440/53]

8 Claims

1. Transportable boat outboard drive for a boat, comprising a head, a pylon, a shaft operatively connecting the head and the pylon, an electric motor and a cable inside said shaft and extending from an interior of the head to the pylon, wherein said shaft comprises at least two shaft sections, and said head, said shaft and said pylon are arrangeable in a working configuration and in a transport configuration such that, in the working configuration, said head, said shaft and said pylon are rigidly connected to each other and in said transport configuration each of the shaft sections of said shaft are separable so as to be positionable independently with respect to each other without requiring separation of said cable running throughout the shaft sections.