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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2003
Yoshimoto Matsuda, Kobe, JP;
Yasuo Okada, Akashi, JP;
Atsufumi Ozaki, Kobe, JP;
Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Kobe, JP;
Abstract
A first exhaust chamber and a second exhaust chamber are disposed within a body of a watercraft. The first exhaust chamber communicates with an exhaust port of an engine through a first exhaust pipe. A first space of the first exhaust chamber communicates with the second exhaust chamber through a first inverted-U shaped pipe. The second exhaust chamber communicates with another space of the first exhaust chamber through a second inverted-U shaped pipe. The first and second inverted-U shaped pipes are each positioned in the flow path of the exhaust gas and bent to be substantially inverted-U shaped. The other space of the first exhaust chamber communicates with an outside of the body through a second exhaust pipe. An uppermost portion of the first inverted-U shaped pipe and an uppermost portion of the second inverted-U shaped pipe are located higher than a waterline of the watercraft.