Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Shigeo Terada

Shinichi Ide

Tadafumi Hirose

Mitsuaki Kubota

Kazumi Miyashita

Kentaro Furuya

Akiko Ichikawa

Teruhiko Otsuki

Koji Yasuda

Hiroyuki Kitani

A thrust receiver abuts against an expandable and contractable trim rod to adjust a trim angle of a body of an outboard engine system. The thrust receiver includes a shaft portion rotatable about an axis generally parallel to an axis of the trim rod, and a pressure-receiving portion provided on the shaft portion to abut against a tip end of the trim rod. An abutment point between the trim rod and the pressure-receiving portion is displaced by a distance from an axis of the shaft portion in a lateral direction of the system body. Because the pressure-receiving portion of the thrust receiver rotates about the axis of the shaft portion accompanying the expansion and contraction of the trim rod, a twisting generated at the abutment point can be minimized to suppress generation of an abnormal sound. Moreover, the structure can be simplified to contribute to a reduction in cost, as compared with a system in which a ball is disposed at an abutment point.

Outboard engine system

In an outboard motor mounted on a stern of a boat, comprising a power source and a driven unit including a drive shaft connected to the power source and a propeller connected to the drive shaft through a gear mechanism, wherein the power source is detachably connected to the driven unit through an interlock unit, i.e., the outboard motor can be separated into a power unit housing the power source and the driven unit. Owing to this configuration, it becomes possible to provide the outboard motor that is improved in transportability or portability, can be easily mounted on a boat, and minimizes the amount of space required for storage.

Outboard motor

An outboard motor is equipped with a centrifugal clutch located between the crankshaft of an engine and a rotor of an electric motor for, when the engine operates, transmitting its output to through the rotor to a propeller, and with a motor output transmission mechanism for, when the engine does not operate, transmitting the output of the motor to the crankshaft. The engine can therefore be started by the motor used to drive the propeller. As a result, there is no need to install a separate electric motor for engine starting, so that starting of the engine by electric power can be made possible with minimum increase in the size and cost of the outboard motor.

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Saitama, Japan

Shigeo Terada