Water vehicle
AssigneeCpd, LLC
InventorIvaylo Emilov Velev
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Abstract
An autonomous water vehicle for moving above the water surface, part of the device being under water and part being lifted above the water surface. The water vehicle includes an underwater propulsion module, an upper platform and a vertical support, a power source and an electronic control unit. The propulsion module has a housing in which at least two propeller groups are preferably mounted, including electric motors and water screw propellers with two to five blades, such as the propeller groups are arranged symmetrically with respect to the central vertical axis of the housing and are designed to generate vertical thrust for lifting the upper platform plus maximum payload above the water surface. The rotational axes of the propeller groups are arranged vertically or at an angle to the central vertical axis of the housing.
Claims9
A water vehicle comprising an underwater propulsion module, an upper platform and a vertical support, in the form of a mast or a pylon, connecting and fixed at both ends to the propulsion module and to the upper platform, an energy source and an electronic control unit, the propulsion module having a housing in which at least two propeller groups are mounted, each of which comprising an electric motor and a water screw propeller with two to five blades, wherein the propeller groups are arranged symmetrically with respect to the central vertical axis of the housing and are designed in working state to generate vertical thrust such that the upper platform plus maximum payload to be lifted above the water surface, wherein rotational axes of the propeller groups are arranged vertically or at an angle to the central vertical axis of the housing, the housing of the propulsion module having a convex streamlined profile with rotational symmetry with respect to the central vertical axis of the housing, each propeller group being mounted in a tunnel in the housing of the propulsion module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.