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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2022
Brp Us Inc., Sturtevant, WI (US);
Mike Davenport, Burlington, WI (US);
John J. Valek, Burlington, WI (US);
Michael James LaValley, Greenfield, WI (US);
Abstract
A marine engine assembly has a housing; an internal combustion engine having a crankshaft; and a driveshaft assembly driven by the crankshaft. The driveshaft assembly has: a first driveshaft having a first end operatively connected to the crankshaft; a second driveshaft having a first end connected to a second end of the first driveshaft, the first end of the second driveshaft being rotationally fixed relative to the second end of the first driveshaft, the first and second driveshafts being concentric, one of the first and second driveshafts being disposed at least in part inside another one of the first and second driveshafts, the second driveshaft extending from its first end toward the first end of the first driveshaft; and a third driveshaft having a first operatively connected to the second driveshaft. The marine engine assembly also has a propulsion device operatively connected to a second end of the third driveshaft.