Claims
- 1. A personal watercraft, comprising:
a hull; a seating assembly; a four stroke internal combustion engine secured to the hull below the seating assembly, wherein the engine comprises
a crankcase having a crank shaft rotatably mounted therein, wherein the crankcase has a top, a bottom, two sides, and two ends, a cylinder head connected to the top of the crankcase, wherein the crankcase and the cylinder head form at least one combustion cylinder chamber, at least one intake valve for each of the combustion cylinder chambers, at least one exhaust valve for each of the combustion cylinder chambers, a valve actuation assembly located in the cylinder head for operating the at least one intake valve and the at least one exhaust valve, at least one air intake passageway operatively coupled to the combustion cylinder chambers through the intake valves, an air intake manifold connected to the cylinder head and operatively connected to the at least one air intake passageway, and a supercharger for boosting air to the air intake manifold; and a propulsion unit operatively coupled to the crankshaft, wherein the propulsion unit is located on one end of the two ends of the crankcase.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This application is a continuation of US Non-provisional application Ser. No. 09/794,238, which was filed on Feb. 28, 2001, and which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,626,140 on Sep. 30, 2003. That application relates to and relies for priority on U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/185,703, filed on Feb. 29, 2000, and U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/257,174, filed on Dec. 22, 2000. All three applications are incorporated herein by reference. In addition, this application is related, but does not claim priority, to U.S. Pat. No. 6,544,086 (Ser. No. 09/794,219 to Tscheme et al.), U.S. Pat. No. 6,390,869 (Ser. No. 09/794,240 to Korenjak et al.), U.S. Pat. No. 6,601,528 (Ser. No. 09/794,237 to Bilek et al.), U.S. Pat. No. 6,591,819 (Ser. No. 09/794,215 to Tscheme et al.), and U.S. Pat. No. 6,415,759 (Ser. No. 09/794,245 to Ohrenberger et al.), the contents of all of which are incorporated herein by reference.
Continuations (1)
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09794238 |
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10673353 |
Sep 2003 |
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