Personal watercraft
View Patent ↗A personal watercraft with a supercharging device and an intercooler is disclosed. The personal watercraft may include an engine, a water jet pump, a propeller shaft to transmit an output power of the engine to the water jet pump, and a bearing case configured to support a front portion of the propeller shaft. The personal watercraft may further include a supercharging device configured to pressurize air taken in from outside and supplied to the engine, an intercooler configured to cool the air pressurized and compressed by the supercharging device, and a pump room which is formed on a bottom surface of a rear end portion of the body and is configured to accommodate the water jet pump therein. The intercooler may be positioned forward of the pump room and behind the engine and may be mounted to an upper surface of the bearing case.
1. A personal watercraft comprising:
an engine;
a water jet pump configured to be driven by the engine to propel a body of the watercraft;
a propeller shaft configured to couple a rear end portion of a crankshaft of the engine to a pump shaft of the water jet pump to transmit an output power of the engine to the water jet pump;
a bearing case configured to support a front portion of the propeller shaft such that the propeller shaft is rotatable;
a supercharging device configured to pressurize air taken in from outside and supplied to the engine;
an intercooler configured to cool the air pressurized and compressed by the supercharging device; and
a pump room which is formed on a bottom surface of a rear end portion of the body and is configured to accommodate the water jet pump therein;
wherein the intercooler is positioned forward of the pump room and behind the engine and is mounted to an upper surface of the bearing case.
2. The personal watercraft according to clam 1 ,
wherein the intercooler has an open cooling system configured to take in water pressurized inside the water jet pump for use as cooling water and to discharge the cooling water that has cooled the intercooler outside the body of the watercraft; and
wherein the intercooler has a cooling water passage independent of a cooling water passage of the engine.
3. The personal watercraft according to claim 1 ,
wherein the bearing case is provided inside the body such that the bearing case is located forward of and adjacent the pump room and mounted on an upper region of a water passage through which water taken in from outside is fed to an inlet of the water jet pump.
4. The personal watercraft according to claim 3 , further comprising:
a pair of first and second water mufflers which are arranged on right and left sides of the bearing case and are positioned so that a front end of the second water muffler is located rearward relative to a front end of the first water muffler in a longitudinal direction of the body, the first and second water mufflers being coupled to each other at rear portions thereof by an exhaust pipe;
wherein a front end portion of the intercooler is disposed in a forward space of the second water muffler.