IP Library Granted Patent US 10,814,939
Granted Patent B2
US 10,814,939 · App. 15/569,677 · Granted Oct 27, 2020

Inflatable surf board with an electric drive

Inventor: Benjamin Köhnsen (Scharbeutz, DE)
Assignee: WBV Weisenberger Bau+Verwaltung GmbH
B63B32/10B60L50/66B63B7/085B63B32/51B63B32/60B63H11/113B63H21/17B60L2200/32Y02T10/705Y02T10/7005
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Patent No.
US 10,814,939
App. No.
15/569,677
Granted
Oct 27, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A surf board which may be broken into two parts, into an inflatable body component and a drive component, wherein the drive component has an electrical drive and forms, or at least partially forms, a tail of the surf board. The surf board can be controlled particularly well by the formation of the drive component as the tail, and it has a higher degree of efficiency. Furthermore it is simple and manageable to transport if the air is let out of the body component.

Claims (12)

1. Surf board with an inflatable body component ( 1 ) with a tail ( 2 ) and a fastening device ( 8 ) disposed on the tail ( 2 ) for a drive component ( 20 ), wherein the drive component ( 20 ) has an electrical drive, characterised in that the body component ( 1 ) has a cutout ( 4 ) disposed on the tail ( 2 ) and the drive component ( 20 ) comprises a battery and has external dimensions adapted to the internal dimensions of the cutout ( 4 ) in an inflated state, and the drive component ( 20 ) is fitted releasably in the cutout ( 4 ), the cutout ( 4 ) on the tail ( 2 ) is open contrary to a direction of travel which is oriented in a longitudinal direction (L).

2. Surf board according to claim 1 , characterised in that the drive component ( 20 ) is disposed releasably by means of the fastening device ( 8 ) on the body component ( 1 ).

3. Surf board according to claim 2 , characterized in that the fastening device ( 8 ) has an insertion mechanism ( 10 ).

4. Surf Board according to claim 1 , characterized in that the drive component ( 20 ) is permanently fastened to the body component ( 1 ) by means of an adhesive.

5. Surf board according to claim 1 , characterized in that the electrical drive has a jet drive ( 50 ).

6. Surf board according to claim 1 , characterized in that the electrical drive as a propeller ( 52 ).

7. Surf board according to claim 1 , characterised in that the drive component ( 20 ) has a rigid outer housing.

8. Surf board according to claim 1 , characterised in that the body component ( 20 ) is manufactured from a drop stitch material ( 9 ).

9. Surf board according to claim 1 , characterised in that a deck ( 22 ) of the drive component ( 20 ) is aligned with a deck ( 7 ) of the inflatable body component ( 1 ).

10. Surf board according to claim 1 , characterised in that an underwater surface ( 21 ) of the drive component ( 20 ) is aligned with an underwater surface ( 6 ) of the inflated body component ( 1 ).

11. Surf board according to claim 1 , characterized in that the cutout ( 4 ) has a frame which is provided with the fastening device ( 8 ), and the drive component ( 20 ) has complementary fastening means co-operating with the fastening device ( 8 ).

12. Surf board according to claim 1 , characterised in that the cutout ( 4 ) has, in a cross-section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction (L) of the body component ( 1 ), contact surfaces ( 42 a , 42 b , 43 a , 43 b ) which extend parallel to the underwater surface ( 6 ) are in each case provided with the fastening device ( 8 ), and the drive component ( 20 ) has, in a cross-section perpendicular to the driving direction, complementary contact surfaces ( 44 a , 44 b , 45 a , 45 b ) which are disposed parallel to the deck ( 22 ) and in each case have the complementary fastening device 8 , and the complementary contact surfaces ( 44 a , 44 b , 45 a , 45 b ) lie precisely on the contact surfaces ( 42 a , 42 b , 43 a , 43 b ) in the inflated and assembled state of the surf board ( 30 ).

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 10, 2019
From: SOPHIA VERWALTUNGS GMBH
To: LAMPUGA GMBH
Reel/Frame 051513/0506 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 25, 2019
From: SASHAY GMBH
To: SOPHIA VERWALTUNGS GMBH
Reel/Frame 049282/0854 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 17, 2018
From: KOHNSEN, BENJAMIN
To: SASHAY GMBH
Reel/Frame 047098/0528 →
Priority Claims (2)
DE 10 2014 114 549 · Oct 7, 2014 · national
DE 10 2015 103 503 · Mar 10, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180118311A1 · May 3, 2018