IP Library Granted Patent US 9,682,753
Granted Patent B1
US 9,682,753 · App. 15/004,120 · Granted Jun 20, 2017

Stand-up type personal watercraft

Inventors: Hironori Kato (Kakogawa, JP); Toshio Araki (Kakogawa, JP); Minoru Kanamori (Rowland Heights, CA); Tadao Minesaki (Kobe, JP)
Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
B63B35/731B63H21/32F01N2590/022
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Patent No.
US 9,682,753
App. No.
15/004,120
Granted
Jun 20, 2017
Kind
B1
Abstract

A stand-up type personal watercraft comprises a body including a deck and a hull; a standing deck which is provided at a rear part of the deck and on which a rider stands; and a pair of deck fins located on a left side and a right side of the standing deck, respectively, protruding upward, and extending in a forward and rearward direction, wherein the standing deck has a substantially rectangular shape when viewed from above.

Claims (18)

1. A stand-up type personal watercraft comprising:

a body including a deck and a hull;

a standing deck which is provided at a rear part of the deck and on which a rider stands;

a pair of deck fins located on a left side and a right side of the standing deck, respectively, protruding upward, and extending in a forward and rearward direction, one of the pair of deck fins having an inner space which is surrounded by an inner surface of an inner side wall and an inner surface of an outer side wall and accommodates a second exhaust pipe therein; and

a clamp member which is provided on an outer side of an upstream end portion of the second exhaust pipe and retains a state in which the upstream end portion of the second exhaust pipe is connected to a first exhaust pipe extending from an engine,

wherein the standing deck has a substantially rectangular shape when viewed from above, and

wherein the second exhaust pipe extends in the forward and rearward direction in such a manner that the second exhaust pipe has a convex shape curving upward, and the upstream end portion of the second exhaust pipe and the clamp member are located in front of and below a top point of the second exhaust pipe.

2. The stand-up type personal watercraft according to claim 1 ,

wherein the deck fin includes the inner side wall protruding upward on an inner side in a rightward and leftward direction and facing the standing deck, and the outer side wall protruding upward on an outer side in the rightward and leftward direction, and

wherein each of the inner side wall and the outer side wall is inclined to a left or a right as the inner side wall and the outer side wall extend in an upward direction, and the inner side wall is inclined at a smaller angle in the rightward and leftward direction than the outer side wall is.

3. The stand-up type personal watercraft according to claim 2 ,

wherein the second exhaust pipe is made closer to the inner surface of the inner side wall of one of the pair of deck fins rather than the inner surface of the outer side wall.

4. A stand-up type personal watercraft comprising:

a body including a deck and a hull;

a standing deck which is provided at a rear part of the deck and on which a rider stands;

a pair of deck fins located on a left side and a right side of the standing deck, respectively, protruding upward, and extending in a forward and rearward direction, one of the pair of deck fins having an inner space which is surrounded by an inner surface of an inner side wall and an inner surface of an outer side wall and accommodates a second exhaust pipe therein; and

a clamp member which is provided on an outer side of an upstream end portion of the second exhaust pipe and retains a state in which the upstream end portion of the second exhaust pipe is connected to a first exhaust pipe extending from an engine,

wherein the second exhaust pipe extends in the forward and rearward direction in such a manner that the second exhaust pipe has a convex shape curving upward, and the upstream end portion of the second exhaust pipe and the clamp member are located in front of and below a top point of the second exhaust pipe.

Assignments (2)
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Jun 2, 2022
From: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
To: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 060300/0504 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 22, 2016
From: KATO, HIRONORI; ARAKI, TOSHIO; KANAMORI, MINORU; MINESAKI, TADAO
To: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 038360/0923 →