Jet propulsion boat
AssigneeKawasaki Motors, Ltd.
InventorsToshio ARAKI, Tetsuya IWATA
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Abstract
A jet propulsion boat includes: a boat body; a jet water stream generation device that jets a jet water stream from the boat body to impart a propulsion force in a front-rear direction to the boat body; a steering device including a steering operator operated by a driver, and changes an orientation in a lateral direction of a propulsion force of the jet water stream generation device in response to an operation on the steering operator; an auxiliary propulsion device provided on the boat body to impart a propulsion force in a lateral direction to the boat body; and a control device that controls the auxiliary propulsion device based on an operation of the steering device.
Claims13
A jet propulsion boat comprising:
- a boat body;
- a jet water stream generation device that jets a jet water stream from the boat body to impart a propulsion force in a front-rear direction to the boat body;
- a steering device including a steering operator operated by a driver, and changes an orientation in a lateral direction of a propulsion force of the jet water stream generation device in response to an operation on the steering operator;
- an auxiliary propulsion device provided on the boat body to impart a propulsion force in a lateral direction to the boat body;
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- a control device that controls the auxiliary propulsion device based on an operation of the steering device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.