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US 6,779,474 B2Granted
Personal watercraft
AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKenichi Nakagawa, Yoshiyuki Kuroyanagi
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Abstract
A personal watercraft in which a battery is easily placed and charging and maintenance of the battery are easily performed, comprising: a body constituted by a deck and a hull; an engine room formed inside the body, for containing an engine; and a battery-accommodating portion for containing the battery for the engine, wherein the battery-accommodating portion is provided in the deck outside the engine room.
Claims7
A personal watercraft comprising:
- a body constituted by a deck and a hull;
- an engine room formed inside the body, for containing an engine;
- a battery-accommodating portion for accommodating a battery for the engine;
- a swaddle-type seat provided over the deck and above the engine room to be straddled by a rider;
- steps respectively provided on both sides of the straddle-type seat on the deck for the rider to put feet thereon, and
- deck fins respectively provided externally adjacent the steps as being raised from the steps, wherein
- the battery-accommodating portion is provided inside of at least one of the deck fins.
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A personal watercraft comprising:
- a body constituted by a deck and a hull;
- an engine room formed inside the body, for containing an engine;
- a battery-accommodating portion for accommodating a battery for the engine;
- and
- a straddle-type seat provided over the deck and above the engine room to be straddled by a rider, wherein
- the battery-accommodating portion is provided at a position adjacent to a rear end of the straddle-type seat on the deck.
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A personal watercraft comprising:
- a body constituted by a deck and a hull, so as to form a space inside thereof, the deck having a front wall portion, and right and left deck fins;
- an engine room formed in a front portion of the space and configured to contain an engine, the front wall portion defining a rear end of the engine room;
- a standing deck provided in the deck to be located rearward of the engine room, for a rider to stand thereon, the front wall portion being raised from a front end of the standing deck, and the right and left deck fins being raised from right and left ends of the standing deck, respectively;
- a battery-accommodating portion provided in a front portion on the standing deck and defined by the front wall portion and the right and left deck fins, for accommodating a battery for the engine;
- and
- an openable cover configured to cover the battery-accommodating portion, the openable cover being configured to be moved upwardly to be opened to thereby allow the battery within the battery-accommodating portion to be exposed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.