Parent-child type boat with generator
AssigneeYamaha Marine Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakao Kawai, Noboru Kobayashi, Yukio Matsushita
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Abstract
A parent-child type boat can have an electric power generating device, such as a fuel cell. The boat can include a parent boat and at least one child boat which is smaller than the parent boat. The parent boat can be equipped with a generating device. The child boat can be equipped with a battery and an electric propulsion device. When the child boat is docked with the parent boat and electrically connected thereto, power can be supplied to at least one of the battery and the electric propulsion device of the child boat from the generating device of the parent boat.
Claims14
A parent-child type boat comprising a relatively large parent boat and at least one child boat which is smaller than the parent boat, the parent boat being equipped with a generating device, the child boat being equipped with a battery and an electric propulsion device, the child boat being configured to be electrically connectable to the generating device such that power can be supplied to at least one of the battery and the electric propulsion device of the child boat from the generating device of the parent boat.
A parent-child type boat comprising a parent boat and at least one child boat which is smaller than the parent boat, the parent boat being equipped with an electric power generating device, the child boat comprising a battery and an electric propulsion device, and means for recharging the battery of the child boat and powering the electric propulsion device of the child boat with the generating device of the parent boat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.