Control system for watercraft
AssigneeYamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNoboru Kobayashi
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Abstract
A control for a watercraft powered by a jet propulsion unit and having a reverse thrust bucket. In order to permit the operator to easily use the reverse thrust bucket for trim and retardation, a control lever is mounted on the steering handlebar assembly in close relationship to one of the handle grips. A mechanism interconnects the control lever to the reverse thrust bucket and includes a motion amplifying mechanism so that a small degree of movement of the control lever will be transmitted into a large degree of movement of the reverse thrust bucket.
Claims12
A watercraft having a jet propulsion unit, a handlebar assembly having a pair of oppositely extending handle bars for controlling the steering of the watercraft, a reverse thrust bucket for said jet propulsion unit, a reverse thrust bucket control lever mounted on one of said handlebars for operating said reverse thrust bucket and pivoted about a first transverse axis perpendicular to an axis defined by said one handlebar, and a throttle control lever mounted on the other of said handlebars for controlling the speed at which said jet propulsion unit is driven and pivoted about a second transverse axis perpendicular to an axis defined by the other of said handlebars.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.