Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshikazu Ichihara

Akira Omae

Tadaaki Nagata

Yoshiaki Noda

Kazuhiko Yokoyama

A two-piece rear grip apparatusfor a personal watercraft includes a body memberhaving either a U-shaped or an H-shaped cross-sectional shape. The body member includes a recessed portion, which opens upwardly. The apparatus also includes a grip face memberfor placement covering the sculpted recess. The two component parts of the apparatus may be formed from a plastic resin. The grip face membermay be injection molded, and has slip-resistant textured irregularitiesformed thereon to provide purchase for the palm of a user's hand. The two component parts of the apparatus may be formed by compression molding or injection molding. Even if the surface of the grip face member includes fine detail work, injection molding can effectively transfer such detail from a metal mold into the finished part. Accordingly, the grip face member can be made to include fine detail work.

Rear grip apparatus for a personal watercraft

A small-sized surface boat is configured such that a seat extending in the fore-and-aft direction is mounted on the center of a deck that constitutes an upper surface of a hull. An approximately horizontal flat portion is formed behind the seat and on a rear end portion of the deck. An inclined surface portion having an upward gradient toward a front from a front end of the flat portion is formed, and a finger catching groove to be caught by fingers of an extended hand from a rear side of the hull is integrally formed in a front end of the inclined surface portion.

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Saitama, Japan

Yoshikazu Ichihara