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Title:
SMALL BOAT
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2009107375
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a small boat capable of making a turn in a turning course intended by a boat maneuvering person regardless of any water conditions.

A small boat includes engines 3, 4 mounted on a hull 2, a plurality of water jet propulsion units 5, 6 disposed on both sides of a longitudinal axis of the hull 2 and driven by the engines 3, 4, and a steering wheel 7 arranged to change jet directions of the water jet propulsion units 5, 6. The small boat further includes a steering angle sensor 20 arranged to detect a turning angle of the steering wheel 7, front and rear gravity sensors (turning state detection devices) 17, 18 arranged to detect a turning state of the hull 2, and a control device 14 to which the turning angle and the turning state of the hull 2 are input in order to control thrusts of the water jet propulsion units 5, 6 such that the turning state coincides with any one of a group of target steady turning radii R1-R3 corresponding to the turning angle of the steering wheel 7.


Inventors:
SUZUKI AKITAKA
Application Number:
JP2007278762A
Publication Date:
May 21, 2009
Filing Date:
October 26, 2007
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
YAMAHA MOTOR CO LTD
International Classes:
B63H25/46; B63H11/10; B63H21/21; B63H23/10; B63H25/42
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Tsutomu Shimoichi



 
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