Jet propulsion boat

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9623943-B2
Application number	US-201514626940-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 20, 2015
Priority date	Feb 21, 2014
Publication date	Apr 18, 2017
Grant date	Apr 18, 2017

Abstract

A jet propulsion boat includes a boat body, a jet propelling apparatus configured to propel the boat body, an engine configured to drive the jet propelling apparatus, and an ECU. The ECU is configured or programmed to determine that a deceleration operation is performed when an amount of operation of a first accelerator operation section is greater than an amount of operation of a second accelerator operation section. The ECU sets an upper limit value for the number of revolutions of the engine to a first predetermined value if the boat body is in a first speed traveling state and the boat body is in a turning state.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A jet propulsion boat comprising:
a boat body;
a jet propelling apparatus configured to propel the boat body;
an engine configured to drive the jet propelling apparatus;
a speed determination section configured or programmed to determine whether or not the boat body is in a first speed traveling state, the first speed traveling state being when a number of engine revolutions or a boat speed is not smaller than a threshold value;
a turning state determination section configured or programmed to determine whether or not the boat body is in a turning state; and
a controller configured or programmed to control the engine based on results of the determinations made by the speed determination section and the turning state determination section; wherein
the controller is configured or programmed to decrease a number of revolutions of the engine if the speed determination section determines that the boat body is in the first speed traveling state and the turning state determination section determines that the boat body is in the turning state.

2. The jet propulsion boat according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured or programmed to set an upper limit value for the number of revolutions of the engine if the speed determination section determines that the boat body is in the first speed traveling state and the turning state determination section determines that the boat body is in the turning state.

3. The jet propulsion boat according to claim 2 , wherein:
the controller is configured or programmed to set the upper limit value for the number of revolutions of the engine to a first predetermined value if the speed determination section determines that the boat body is in the first speed traveling state and the turning state determination section determines that the boat body is in the turning state; and
the controller is configured or programmed to set the upper limit value for the number of revolutions of the engine to a second predetermined value, which is greater than the first predetermined value, if the speed determination section determines that the boat body is in the first speed traveling state but the turning state determination section determines that the boat body is not in the turning state.

4. The jet propulsion boat according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured or programmed to control the engine based on results of the determinations made by the speed determination section and the turning state determination section when a deceleration operation is determined.

5. The jet propulsion boat according to claim 1 , wherein the jet propelling apparatus includes a reverse bucket configured to move to a first position to move the boat body forward, and to a second position to decrease a forward propulsion force of the boat body.

6. The jet propulsion boat according to claim 5 , further comprising a first accelerator operation section configured to control operations of the boat body; wherein
the controller is configured or programmed to determine the reverse bucket position at least based on an operation of the first accelerator operation section.

7. The jet propulsion boat according to claim 6 , further comprising a second accelerator operation section configured to control operations of the boat body; wherein
the controller is configured or programmed to determine the reverse bucket position based on an amount of the operation of the first accelerator operation section and an amount of operation of the second accelerator operation section.

8. The jet propulsion boat according to claim 4 , further comprising a first accelerator operation section and a second accelerator operation section configured to control operations of the boat body; wherein
the controller is configured or programmed to determine that the deceleration operation is made when the amount of operation of the first accelerator operation section is greater than the amount of operation of the second accelerator operation section.

9. The jet propulsion boat according to claim 1 , wherein the turning state determination section is configured or programmed to determine that the boat body is in the turning state when a steering handle is turned left or right beyond a predetermined angle.

10. The jet propulsion boat according to claim 1 , wherein the boat body is in a planing state when the boat body is in the first speed traveling state.

Assignees

• Yamaha Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Anma Hirofumi

Classifications

• B63B34/10

  Power-driven personal watercraft, e.g. water scooters (water jet propulsion B63H11/00; jet steering B63H25/46); Accessories therefor · CPC title

• B63H11/04 Primary

  by means of pumps · CPC title

• B63B35/731

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• Y02T70/742

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• B63J2099/008

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic