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US 7,018,251 B2Granted
Trim operating wire structure for personal watercraft
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroshi Iwakami, Tomohiro Fuse
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Abstract
A trim operating wire is disclosed wherein the length of the pull wire connecting between the push-pull converter and the trim operating lever can be made short, and the push wire can be made long. As a result, even where the pull wire, which is thin and highly flexible, is disposed in the state of being bent at several portions thereof, the sliding resistance of an inner wire of the pull wire is small, and operability is enhanced.
Claims5
A trim operating wire structure for a personal watercraft comprising:
- a jet propeller for ejecting jet water,
- a nozzle, in position to adjust and capable of adjusting the direction of the jet water,
- a trim operating lever operably connected to a steering handle,
- the nozzle being vertically rotatable from a first ordinary direction when the trim operating lever is gripped, and returning to the first ordinary direction when the grip on the trim operating lever is released,
- a pull wire,
- a push wire, the push wire long in a rectilinear form, and
- a push-pull converter,
- wherein a first end of the pull wire is connected to the trim operating lever and a second end of the pull wire is connected to a first end of the push wire through a push-pull converter, wherein a second end of the push wire is connected to the nozzle, wherein the pull wire has a smaller diameter and is more flexible than the push wire,
- wherein the push-pull converter is directly under the steering handle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.