Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Nifco Inc.

Kei Inoue

Masamitsu Shiono

Kozo Kobayashi

Shinsaku Nakayama

Masanori Tsubouchi

Akifumi Fujima

Kazuhiro Sato

Kosei Yamashita

Taku Hirama

Koji Kondo

A container holder () includes a main body () formed with a recess () having an open top defined therein for receiving a container, a swing member () rotatably supported by the main body so as to be swung into and out of the recess, a roller () supported by the swing member so as to be rotated around a prescribed rotational center line (B) by a container engaging the roller as the container is pushed into and pulled out of the recess, and a biasing member () urging the swing member into projecting into the recess, wherein the swing member is provided with an inclined surface () extending from a part thereof located outward of an outer periphery () of the roller, above the roller and outward of the recess to a part thereof located directly above or inward of the rotational center line of the roller.

Container holder including a swing member rotatably supporting a roller to hold a container received therein

Provided is a container holder () comprising a body member () defining a recess () with a bottom, a roller () supported by the body member such that at least a part of the roller projects into the recess to engage a container () received in the recess, and a biasing member () for urging the roller into the recess, wherein the roller is supported by the body member in such a manner that a rotational center line (B) of the roller extends in a tangential direction of a circle centered around a central axial line (A) of the recess, and the roller is enabled to slide in a radial direction of the recess and to tilt around an axial line in parallel with the central axial line.

Container holder

A vehicle center console includes a small item receptacle closing a part of an opening of a console body and capable of storing therein small items, and an arm rest closing a remaining part of the opening of the console body and capable of placing thereon an elbow of a passenger. The small item receptacle and the arm rest are mounted adjacent to each other on the console body in such a manner that the small item receptacle and the arm rest are slidable in a front-rear direction of the vehicle. The vehicle center console has an opening mode for opening the opening of the console body by sliding the small item rearwardly so that both the small item and the arm rest are together slid rearwardly.

Vehicle center console

An outboard motor S has an exhaust manifold passagefor carrying exhaust gas from combustion chambers. The exhaust manifold passageis formed in a part of a cylinder headin an exhaust-side part of an internal combustion engine E on the side of the cylinder headwith respect to a joint surface P of a cylinder blockjoined to the cylinder head. An exhaust passageis formed in the cylinder blockand connected to the exhaust gas outletof the exhaust manifold passagein the joint surface P. An electrical equipment boxholding electrical equipment is placed in the exhaust-side part so as to overlap the exhaust passagewhen viewed in vertical direction. An electrical equipment boxis disposed adjacent to the cylinder headwith respect to the direction parallel to the axes of cylinders. It is thus possible to increase freedom of arranging parts at positions farther from the cylinder head than the electrical equipment box and freedom of determining the sizes of those parts.

Outboard motor provided with internal combustion engine having electrical equipment box

In an outboard motor control system, equipped with two outboard motors and actuators for steering, changing shift position and regulating engine speed, two navigation units responsive to operations of the operator for producing outputs indicative of actuator operation commands, two ECUs that control the operation of the actuators based on the outputs from the navigation units, an output forwarding ECU which forwards the outputs of one of the navigation units to the ECUs, and two switchover buttons for changing the outputs to be forwarded. Therefore, only the set of outputs for the one navigation unit selected by the operator is sent to the ECUs. In other words, in the case where multiple navigation units are provided, use of the navigation units is limited to a desired one thereof, so that the outboard motors can be stably controlled even when the control inputs to the individual navigation units are different.

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Wako, Japan

Kei Inoue