Personal watercraft
AssigneeKawasaki Motors, Ltd.
InventorMasaaki Miyoshi
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Abstract
A personal watercraft includes a ship body, a luggage compartment provided in the ship body and provided with an opening for taking in and out luggage, a hatch attached to the ship body and capable of opening and closing the opening, and a lock mechanism for fixing the hatch to the ship body in a state where the opening is closed. The lock mechanism includes a plurality of lock portions that engage the hatch and the ship body with each other, one operation lever that causes the plurality of lock portions to unlock the engagement in an interlocking manner, and a transmission member that transmits an operation action of the operation lever to at least one of the plurality of lock portions to unlock the engagement of the lock portion.
Claims18
A personal watercraft comprising:
- a ship body;
- a luggage compartment in the ship body and including an opening for taking in and out luggage;
- a hatch attached to the ship body and capable of opening and closing the opening;
- and
- a lock mechanism that fixes the hatch to the ship body in a state where the opening is closed, wherein
- the lock mechanism includes:
- a plurality of lock portions that provide a corresponding plurality of engagements of the hatch and the ship body with each other,
- a single operation lever that causes the plurality of lock portions to unlock the corresponding plurality of engagements in an interlocking manner, and
- a transmission member that transmits an operation action of the single operation lever to the plurality of lock portions to unlock the corresponding plurality of engagements of the lock portions to enable opening of the hatch.
A personal watercraft, comprising:
- a ship body;
- a luggage compartment in the ship body and including an opening for taking in and out luggage;
- a hatch attached to the ship body and capable of opening and closing the opening;
- and
- a lock mechanism that fixes the hatch to the ship body in a state where the opening is closed, wherein
- the lock mechanism includes:
- a plurality of lock portions to have an engagement of the hatch and the ship body with each other,
- a single operation lever that causes the plurality of lock portions to unlock the engagement in an interlocking manner, and
- a transmission member that transmits an operation action of the single operation lever to the plurality of lock portions to unlock the engagement of the lock portions to enable opening of the hatch,
- wherein:
- the hatch includes an inner member opposing the opening, an outer member attached to the inner member, and an internal space defined by the inner member and the outer member, and
- the transmission member is disposed in the internal space.
A personal watercraft, comprising:
- a ship body;
- a luggage compartment in the ship body and including an opening for taking in and out luggage;
- a hatch attached to the ship body and capable of opening and closing the opening;
- and
- a lock mechanism that fixes the hatch to the ship body in a state where the opening is closed, wherein
- the lock mechanism includes:
- a plurality of lock portions to have an engagement of the hatch and the ship body with each other,
- a single operation lever that causes the plurality of lock portions to unlock the engagement in an interlocking manner, and
- a transmission member that transmits an operation action of the single operation lever to the plurality of lock portions to unlock the engagement of the lock portions to enable opening of the hatch, the transmission member including:
- a displacement member,
- a main transmission member that transmits an operation force of the single operation lever to the displacement member to displace the displacement member, and
- a distribution transmission member that transmits a displacement force of the displacement member to the plurality of lock portions as power for the unlock, and
- wherein at least one of the main transmission member and the distribution transmission member includes a wire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.