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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2002
Manfred Heer, Düngenheim, DE;
Wolfgang Rzadki, Glinde, DE;
Other;
Abstract
An electrical steering propeller for a seagoing high-speed ship having a polyphase electric motor which is mounted under the stern of the ship via a shaft which can rotate and preferably has two parts in a gondola-like housing, and can be supplied with electrical drive power via a slipring arrangement, and can be rotated via drive motors, wherein the steering propeller is mounted in the stern of the ship via a flat collar bearing ( ) in the vicinity of the outer skin ( ), in particular above the waterline, with the slipring arrangement ( ) being accommodated in the upper part ( ) of the shaft ( ) at the level of the annular bearing ( ), and with the drive motors for the rotary movement ( ) being physically small and being arranged at least partially in the interior of the collar bearing ( ).