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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2007
Atsufumi Ozaki, Kobe, JP;
Yasuo Okada, Akashi, JP;
Atsufumi Ozaki, Kobe, JP;
Yasuo Okada, Akashi, JP;
Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Kobe-shi, Hyogo, JP;
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.