Marine propulsion – Means for accomodating or moving engine fluids – Means for handling exhaust gas
Reexamination Certificate
2007-09-06
2009-12-15
Swinehart, Ed (Department: 3617)
Marine propulsion
Means for accomodating or moving engine fluids
Means for handling exhaust gas
C440S08800J
Reexamination Certificate
active
07632162
ABSTRACT:
In a personal watercraft equipped with a multi-cylinder engine including an exhaust collecting system configured to discharge an exhaust gas from the engine, the exhaust collecting system comprising a plurality of exhaust passages respectively corresponding to a plurality of cylinders provided in the multi-cylinder engine, an exhaust collecting passage which is located downstream of the plurality of exhaust passages in a flow direction of the exhaust gas and is configured to collect the plurality of exhaust passages, a water jacket formed at an outer peripheral region of each of the plurality of exhaust passages, for cooling the exhaust gas flowing in the exhaust passages, and a connecting passage configured to connect at least two of the plurality of exhaust passages.
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Okada Yasuo
Ozaki Atsufumi
Alleman Hall McCoy Russell & Tuttle LLP
Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Swinehart Ed
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