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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 16, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Sumihiro Takashima, Shizuoka, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
114 555 ; 440 84 ; 440 87 ;
Abstract
A watercraft includes an improved display arrangement located in a steering operator for steering of the watercraft. The steering operator has at least one hand grip. The display arrangement includes a visual display and a display controller connected to the visual display so as to control the display of watercraft operational information on the visual display. The display controller establishes at least two display modes for the visual display to change the type of operational information displayed. A selector is supported by the steering operator near the grip for easy use by the watercraft operator in changing the display modes of the visual display with the display controller.