Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Masami Okubo

Takeshi Okada

Tatsuya Kuroda

Kazuyoshi Sato

Kunihiro Kitsu

Haruhiko Komatsu

An engine cover of an outboard motor includes an upper cover and a lower cover that are vertically separable. A fixing belt capable of fixing the upper cover and the lower cover to each other is attached to the rear end of the engine cover. The upper cover includes a belt holding portion that holds the fixing belt. The belt holding portion includes a holding frame that forms a belt insertion hole. A head portion of the fixing belt includes a pair of contact portions that come into contact with upper surfaces of a pair of first frame portions of the holding frame.

Outboard motor

A V8 engine, each bank of which is configured such that four crank pins connected to four piston pins via a connecting rod are positioned at 90&#xb0; intervals when viewed from one end of a crankshaft. The four crank pins on the bank side are offset by 60&#xb0; relative to the four crank pins on the bank side when viewed from the one end.

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Wako, Japan

Masami Okubo