Suzuki Motor Corporation

Kunitoshi Ito

Nobuyuki Shomura

Akinori Yamazaki

Shuichi Sugiyama

Hiroki Okunishi

A propeller unit of a marine propulsion apparatus includes: an inner hub; an outer hub arranged coaxially with the inner hub, connected to the inner hub, and provided with a plurality of blades on its outer circumferential surface; and a bushing having a hollow shaft member provided with ribs on an outer circumferential surface and connected to the propeller shaft, and a damper formed of an elastic member and arranged to cover an outer circumferential surface of the hollow shaft member between the outer circumferential surface of the hollow shaft member and the inner circumferential surface of the inner hub, wherein the bushing is spline-coupled to the propeller shaft through spline teeth formed on an inner circumferential surface of a front half or rear half of a longitudinal direction of the hollow shaft member, and has a breakable portion provided in a part corresponding to the non-spline-toothed portion.

Propeller  unit of marine propulsion apparatus

When an ECM activates as powered from a generator, a decision unit determines occurrence of instantaneous interruption and reactivation of the ECM, if engine speed detected by an engine speed sensor immediately after activation of the ECM is found to be not smaller than a predetermined number of rotation Y. When occurrence of the instantaneous interruption and reactivation is actually determined, the ECM terminates operation of the engine. On the other hand, if occurrence of the instantaneous interruption and reactivation is not determined, the ECM detects, using a maximum value detection unit, a maximum value of pressure in the intake pipe detected by a pressure sensor, within a predetermined range of crank angle after activation of the ECM, stores the maximum value into a memory for later use as the atmospheric pressure, and uses it for control of fuel injection by an injector.

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Kunitoshi Ito