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Article: Kansas Inventors Develop Personal Watercraft Forced Air Induction System
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- February 3, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- Daniel W. Jones of Lenexa, Kan., Jesse Schmidtberger of Olathe, Kan., and Michael A. Carlson of Stanley, Kan., have developed a personal watercraft forced air induction system.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal watercraft is disclosed as having a forced air induction system that is particularly suitable for aftermarket installation. The induction system includes support structure for supporting the compressor in a non-cantilevered manner within the watercraft body. In supercharger applications, the induction system provides a drive arrangement for powering the supercharger that eliminates or reduces the need to remove the jet pump ...