Planing boat with airbag system
AssigneeSuzuki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYasuaki Yatagai, Takashi Shimizu, Koji Kurata
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Abstract
A planing boat, particularly of a small size, is provided with an airbag system. The airbag system includes at least one bag-shaped airbag body, a housing which accommodates the airbag body, a detector for detecting a collision of the boat, an expanding unit which inflates the airbag body at the time of collision of the boat, and a controller for controlling the detector and the inflation of the airbag body. In a preferred embodiment, the airbag system includes a first airbag body in the handle cover which is blown up from the handle bar to a rear side of the boat and a second airbag body in the handle cover which is blown up toward a front side of knees of a rider.
Claims15
A planing boat with an airbag system comprising:
- a boat body extending in a longitudinal direction of the planing boat;
- an engine mounted in the boat body;
- a steering handle bar disposed at an upper portion of the boat body;
- a meter panel disposed in front of the handle bar;
- a hood which covers a front half upper surface of the boat body in front of the meter panel;
- a frame extending along the longitudinal direction of the boat body at a bottom portion thereof;
- a support frame provided in a vicinity of a distal end portion of the frame so as to extend toward a lower surface of the hood;
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- an airbag system including at least one bag-shaped airbag body, a housing which accommodates the airbag body, a detector for detecting a collision of the boat, an expanding unit which inflates or blows up the airbag body at the time of collision of the boat, and a controller for controlling the detector and the inflation of the airbag body, the airbag system further including a first airbag body in the handle cover which is blown up from the handle bar to a rear side of the boat, and a second airbag body in the handle cover which is blown up toward a front side of a knee position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.