Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroshi Umeno

Yasuhiro Sugimoto

Gunji Saito

Yukio Tada

Morimasa Hayashida

Hideo Oka

An outboard engine has a power unit, an extension case extending vertically and having its upper end coupled to the power unit, and a propeller mounted on the lower end of the extension case and driven by the power unit. The power unit comprises an internal combustion engine having a vertically extending crank shaft and a cylinder having its axis extending horizontally, and a cover assembly covering the internal combustion engine. The axis of the cylinder is inclined to one side with respect to the axis of the propeller when viewed in plan. The outboard engine can be handled with utmost ease since it can be laid down during storage or shipment without being drained of engine oil.

Outboard motor

The present invention is directed to a power transmission apparatus for a power driven lawn mower. The lawn mower has a housing, an engine mounted on the housing, a moving blade coupled to the engine and wheels which are swingably mounted on the housing. The swinging of the wheels moves the housing towards and way from the ground in order to raise and lower the housing to thereby raise and lower the lawn mower blade. The power transmission apparatus comprises a transmission mechanism and a transmission chamber for housing the transmission mchanism, the chamber including a guide structure. The transmission mechanism includes a drive shaft coupled to the engine and a single reduction gear mechanism coupled to the drive shaft and the wheels for transmitting the rotation of the drive shaft to the wheels. The reduction gear mechanism includes an engaging structure for engaging the guide structure in the chamber wherein the swinging movement of the wheels causes a corresponding movement of the reduction gear mechanism. The corresponding movement of the reduction gear mechanism is guided by the movement of the engaging structure in the guide structure.

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Higashikurume, Japan

Hiroshi Umeno