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.
Claims10
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 supported by a steering shaft at an upper portion of the boat body configured to be turned right and left;
- a handle cover which covers the handle bar;
- a hood which covers a front half upper surface of the boat body in front of the handle bar;
- a rider driving seat disposed behind the handle bar;
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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 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 knees of a rider, and airbag bodies which are disposed in the grips on both ends of the handle bar so as to be expanded and blown up along the width of the boat body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.