Patent ID: 7350802

Claim:
A planing boat with an airbag system comprising: a boat body extending in a longitudinal direction of a planing boat; an engine mounted in the boat body; a steering handle bar supported by a steering shaft at an upper portion of the boat body so as to be turned to right and left; a handle cover which covers the handle bar; a meter panel disposed in front of the handle bar; a hood which covers a front half upper surface of the boat body in front of the meter panel; a frame extending along the longitudinal direction of the boat body at a bottom portion thereof; a rider driving seat disposed behind the handle bar; a support frame provided in the vicinity of a distal end portion of the frame so as to extend toward a lower surface of the hood; and an airbag system including at least one bag-shaped airbag body, a housing which accommodates the airbag body, a detector for detecting a collision of the boat, an expanding unit which inflates or blows up the airbag body at the time of collision of the boat, and a controller for controlling the detector and the inflation of the airbag body, wherein the airbag system including a first airbag body in the handle cover which is blown up from the handle bar to a rear side of the boat, a second airbag body in the handle cover which is blown up toward a front side of knees of a rider, and a third airbag body supported by the support frame and disposed under the hood so as to expand and inflate toward the meter panel by utilizing a portion of the hood covering the upper portion of the meter panel as a guide slope, the first, second and third airbag bodies being activated such that, depending on a degree of the collision, only the airbag body disposed in the handle cover is blown up, all the airbag bodies are blown up at the same time, or the airbag body disposed under the hood is blown up with a time lag relative to the airbag body disposed in the handle cover.