Ride plate positioning mechanism for personal watercraft, and method of using same
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTomohiro Fuse
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Abstract
A ride plate positioning mechanism for a personal watercraft can reduce the burden on an operator during assembly, and can also raise manufacturing productivity. In a ride plate positioning mechanism 30 of a personal watercraft 10, a portion of a bottom wall 15a of a stern 15, that is located below a water jet propeller 17, is formed from a ride plate 31 removable from a craft body 11. Further, a pair of left and right positioning projections 32, 32 are formed integrally on the ride plate 31, while a pair of left and right tab stops 33, 33 corresponding to the positioning projections 32 are provided on the craft body 11 side.
Claims10
A ride plate positioning mechanism for a personal watercraft having a craft body, an engine and a jet propeller driven by said engine, such that said personal watercraft is capable of being propelled by jet water generated by said jet propeller,
- said ride plate positioning mechanism comprising:
- a removable ride plate for defining a bottom portion of a stern of said craft body, said ride plate comprising a pair of integrally formed left and right positioning projections projecting upwardly at a front portion of said ride plate, said positioning projections having vertically oriented front faces for contacting said craft body;
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- a pair of left and right tab stops formed in a hull of said craft body of said watercraft, said pair of tab stops contacting the vertically oriented front faces of said positioning projections when the ride plate is installed on said craft body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.