Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Keiji Iino

Hiroshi Sueshige

Masayuki Osumi

Nobuo Yamazaki

Tomoaki Ishikawa

Tatsuya Yamazaki

Hideshi Sasaki

Kazuyoshi Miyahara

Atsushi Yamada

Seishu Sakai

Hideaki Kobayashi

Yoshihiro Iijima

Hiroaki Hasebe

Yoshitaka Oota

Kenta Kohigashi

Masahiro Akiyama

Nobuyuki Hirose

Masakatsu Kono

Fumiyoshi Kanbara

Morihiro Saito

Tomokazu Kimura

Kouhei Okaguchi

A power transmission device is capable of switching the rotation direction of a drive shaft between positive rotation and negative rotation as power is transmitted to the drive shaft from a drive source via the power transmission device. To cause positive rotation of the drive shaft, only the positive rotation belt is tensed by the belt switching means, and rotation from the positive rotation drive pulley is transmitted to the drive shaft via the positive rotation shaft. To cause negative rotation of the drive shaft, only the negative rotation belt is tensed by the belt switching means, and rotation from the negative rotation drive pulley is transmitted to the drive shaft via the negative rotation shaft.

Power transmission device

An operation lever structure wherein an operation lever is pulled toward a left handle to cause a link to swing-move to thereby operate an operation cable. The operation lever structure is configured so that each of inside and outside rollers are provided to an opposite end of the link. Inside and outside guide holes for movably supporting the inside and outside rollers are formed in each of a pair of inside and outside side walls. A discharge opening is formed in a bottom part of the operation lever for discharging a foreign matter that has entered the operation lever.

Operation lever structure

An automatic residual fuel vent device for a carburetor, the device including a fuel supply passage () connecting a fuel tank (TF) and a float chamber (), a negative pressure passage () connecting an intake passage () and a negative pressure operating chamber () of a diaphragm pump (PD), a fuel vent passage () connecting the float chamber () and the fuel tank (TF), a single changeover cock (CO) provided so as to straddle the fuel supply passage () and the negative pressure passage (), a negative pressure surge tank (TS) provided in the negative pressure passage (), and the diaphragm pump (PD), which is connected to the fuel vent passage () and is operated by negative pressure of the negative pressure surge tank (TS), residual fuel of the float chamber () being returned to the fuel tank (TF) by the diaphragm pump (PD) operated by negative pressure from the negative pressure surge tank (TS) in accordance with the changing over of the changeover cock (CO). This enables residual fuel within the float chamber of the carburetor to be reliably returned to the fuel tank by intake negative pressure accumulated in the negative pressure surge tank and, furthermore, residual fuel can be vented by the changing over of a single changeover cock, thus enabling the number of components to be reduced and the device to be provided at a low cost.

Automatic residual fuel vent device for carburetor

An agricultural wheel tire has a tire tread having first and second lateral edges defining the width of the tire tread, and two sets of lugs. Each lug of the first set extends from a center of the tread width and terminates at the first lateral edge of the tire tread. Each lug of the second set extends from the center of the tread width and terminates at the second lateral edge of the tire tread. The first and second sets of lugs extend in an alternating manner in a circumferential direction of the tire tread so that corresponding side and end surfaces of adjacent first and second lugs and corresponding surfaces of the tire tread form substantially spherical-shaped depressed portions of the tire tread. The spherical-shaped depressed portions are arranged in the circumferential direction of the tire tread so that when the wheel tire is driven on soft soil, the spherical-shaped depressed portions engage and are buried in the soft soil and the soft soil is gathered inward of the spherical-shaped depressed portions and gradually hardened so that soft soil located between and surrounding the adjacent first and second lugs increases in hardness to thereby prevent the wheel tire from sinking into the soft soil so that the wheel tire has sufficient driving force.

Agricultural wheel tire

An underwater scooter including a main frame on which are disposed two air tanks serving as a saddle area for the operator, a depth adjusting mechanism disposed to the fore of the air tanks, and a steering mechanism disposed to the aft of the air tanks. The depth adjusting mechanism can be swiveled freely around a vertical axis using a swivel mechanism, and moreover the angular displacement in this swiveling is transmitted by a swivel angle displacement transmission mechanism to the steering mechanism so that a rudder swivels around a vertical axis, and thus while the underwater scooter is traveling, the operator can ride upon the main frame and also adjust the depth of travel and direction of forward motion of the underwater scooter by manipulating the depth adjusting mechanism and steering mechanisms. Thus, the burden on the operator is reduced in comparison to that of the conventional types of scooters that tow the operator.

Underwater scooter

An underwater scooter includes a watertight vessel enclosing an engine disposed in the fore part of a cylindrically shaped main frame, a propeller disposed in the aft area, and a driveshaft passes through the interior of the main frame and transmits the output of the engine to the propeller. An operator rides upon air tanks disposed between the engine and the propeller on the main frame, so the burden on the operator can be reduced in comparison to that of conventional types that tow the operator. In addition, the propeller is disposed aft of the operator and also the exhaust gas from the engine is exhausted aft of the operator, so there is no risk of either the jet of water ejected by the propeller or the exhaust gas reducing the field of view or causing articles (goggles, etc.) worn by the operator to come off.

An underwater scooter is provided with an engine enclosed in a watertight vessel and an electric motor enclosed in the watertight vessel and connected to the output shaft of the engine, and a propeller disposed upon a main frame and connected to the output shaft of the motor to be driven and turned by at least one of the engine and the motor so as to propel the scooter. In other words, the scooter is a hybrid type having the engine and electric motor as the drive power of the propeller. With this, the operator can easily re-start, once stopped on the surface of the water or underwater. Moreover, since the propeller can be driven even by the engine, a distance of travel is elongated with less increased weight, when compared to the case that the propeller is driven solely by the engine.

Hybrid-powered underwater scooter

Underwater vehicle

A walk-behind tiller has a body and a pair of wheels mounted on the body for undergoing rotation to cause the walk-behind tiller to undergo travelling along a ground surface. A tilling device is mounted on the body for undergoing a first movement operation in which the tilling device travels along the ground surface while the tilling device is disposed in spaced-apart relation to the ground surface, a second movement operation in which the tilling device tills the ground, and a third movement operation in which the tilling device is maintained generally horizontal to the ground surface. A handle has proximal portions, a pair of grip portions connected to the proximal portions and configured to be gripped by an operator to maintain the tilling device generally parallel to the ground surface during the third movement operation, a pair of rising portions connected to the grip portions and configured to be tilted by the operator during the second movement operation to cause the tilling device to till the ground, and a cross portion disposed between the rising portions and configured to be gripped and pressed by an operator to produce a force tending to move the tilling device about the rotational axis to maintain the tilling device in spaced-apart relation to the ground surface.

Walk-behind tiller

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Wako, Japan

Keiji Iino