Patent ID: 7654876

Claim:
A personal watercraft comprising: a buoyant hull configured to support at least one rider thereon, said hull defining an interior space; an engine including an intake and a supercharger mounting socket, said engine being mounted within the interior space, said engine including a crankshaft and a crankshaft drive gear mounted thereon; and a supercharger operable to supply supercharged induction fluid to the intake, said supercharger comprising: a case presenting a compressor chamber, said case including a projection received within the mounting socket, a rotatable compression member within the compressor chamber, and a rigid, integral bracket presenting opposite first and second ends and a central elongated section therebetween, said first end of the bracket being fixed relative to the engine, said second end of the bracket being fixed to the case at an attachment location spaced from the projection, with the central section configured to be spaced from the engine and the case portion, said supercharger including a rotatable input shaft mounted on the case, said rotatable input shaft carrying an input gear drivingly connected to the crankshaft drive gear, said projection presenting a distal end adjacent the crankshaft drive gear, said input gear being spaced outwardly beyond the distal end.