Marine propulsion inventions 11/08

20080293311 - Jet-propulsion personal watercraft: A jet-propulsion personal watercraft comprises a body including a hull and a deck, an engine mounted in the body, a driving power output changing system configured to be able to change a driving power output of the engine, a controller configured to control an operation of the driving power output... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20080293312 - Marine propulsion device: A marine propulsion device such as an outboard motor includes a submersible electric motor having a propeller connected directly with the drive shaft of the motor. The motor is an efficient brushless motor having symmetrical elliptical coils connected with a stator which generate magnetic flux when current is passed through... Agent: Laubscher & Laubscher, P.C.

20080293313 - Demountable cable cutter: A cable cutter (10) includes a hub (2) for attaching it to a boat's screw shaft (1) and a blade (3) carried by the hub, the cable cutter including several mutually demountable parts (11, 12) allowing the screw shaft (1) to be inserted radially into the hub (2).... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080293314 - Trolling motor cable cover: A trolling motor with sensor unit construction is provided. A sensor is mounted to a lower portion of the trolling motor preferably adjacent the trolling motor propulsion unit. A signal conductor extends from the sensor unit connecting it to a display device. The signal conductor is mounted to a tube... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080287016 - Electric motor-driven water craft, which is cooled by the surrounding water: An electric motor-driven water craft including a fuselage, on which a user can at least partially lie or stand. The fuselage has a flow channel with a screw that is driven by an electric motor and contains the electric motor and batteries, in addition to a control device for the... Agent: Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20080280511 - Engine control unit systems and methods for a boat propulsion system: A predicted boat speed value generator, in accordance with one or more embodiments, receives an engine rotation signal, an intake pressure value, and other detection signals including shift position, and provides a predicted boat speed value. A control signal generator determines the fuel injection amount, the amount of air, and... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080280512 - Jet-propulsion personal watercraft: A jet-propulsion personal watercraft includes an engine configured to generate a driving power for generating a propulsion force to propel the watercraft, an engine speed changing system configured to be able to change an engine speed of the engine, a determiner configured to determine whether or not to execute control... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20080280513 - Amphibious vehicle which has elements for forming a floating bridge: An amphibious vehicle which has elements, such as caissons, floats, and ramps, arranged on a self-propelled rolling base, oriented essentially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the rolling base, when the vehicle is in a folded configuration for movement on land, and which are deployed to form a track or... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080280514 - Propelling system for boat: A propelling system for a boat includes a housing adapted to be mounted to a stem of the boat and having a receiving chamber inside and a waterway at a bottom side thereof, a propeller rotatably disposed in the waterway of the housing, a driving device mounted in the receiving... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw