Suzuki Motor Corporation

Suzuki Kabushiki Kaisha

Tomokazu Hikosaka

Katsuhiro Fukuda

Yasushi Miyashita

Hideo Koyama

Hiroaki Koike

An outboard motor includes a power source, a drive shaft, a propeller shaft, a propeller attached to the propeller shaft, a case covering the power source, the drive shaft, and the propeller shaft, a water intake passage provided in the case, through which water is taken into the case from an outside of the outboard motor, a first pump configured to be driven by rotation of the drive shaft and to supply the water taken in from the water intake passage to the power source as cooling water, and a second pump configured to be driven by rotation of the drive shaft and to supply the water taken in from the water intake passage to the power source as the cooling water. The first pump and the second pump are arranged in a distributed manner in the outboard motor.

Outboard motor

An outboard motor includes a case having a gear chamber, a drive shaft arrangement hole, and a propeller shaft arrangement hole, a drive shaft, a propeller shaft, a drive gear, a driven gear, a gear position setting member provided in front of the driven gear in the case and configured to set a position of the driven gear in a front-rear direction, and a screw mechanism configured to move the gear position setting member in the front-rear direction when the gear position setting member is rotated about an axis of the gear position setting member. The screw mechanism includes a first screw provided in the case and a second screw provided on the gear position setting member and configured to be screwed with the first screw.

Outboard motor and drive shaft assembling method

An outboard motor includes a power source disposed, a propeller shaft, a drive shaft, a gear mechanism, a lower case having an internal space in which gear oil is stored, a gear oil gauge configured to check a level or a state of the gear oil stored in the internal space, a gauge mounting hole provided configured to removably mount the gear oil gauge to the lower case such that one end side of the gear oil gauge is immersed in the gear oil stored in the internal space, a gauge insertion portion configured to insert the gear oil gauge into the gauge mounting hole, an oil supply and discharge passage provided in the lower case, and a pump connecting portion configured to connect a pump. The gauge insertion portion and the pump connecting portion are arranged side by side.

An outboard motor includes a first driven gear and a second driven gear, a first conical roller bearing and a second conical roller bearing, and a nut. The first driven gear and the second driven gear mesh with a driving gear. The driving gear rotates through transmission of a rotative power from an engine unit. The first conical roller bearing and the second conical roller bearing are disposed on an outer periphery of a tubular portion of the second driven gear. The first conical roller bearing and the second conical roller bearing are arranged in a front-rear direction in directions opposite from one another. The nut is disposed on the outer periphery of the tubular portion of the second driven gear. The nut is displaceable in an axial direction of the tubular portion. With the nut, a preload is applied to the first conical roller bearing and the second conical roller bearing to hold the first conical roller bearing and the second conical roller bearing to the outer periphery of the tubular portion of the second driven gear.

Supporting structure for gear of outboard motor

A shift mechanism includes a second driven gear, a first conical roller bearing and a second conical roller bearing, a biasing member, a first spacer, and a nut. The second driven gear meshes with a driving gear. The first and second conical roller bearings are disposed on an outer periphery of a tubular portion of the second driven gear in directions opposite from one another. The biasing member biases one of inner or outer races of the first or second conical roller bearings in directions separate from one another. The first spacer maintains a distance between the other ones. The nut holds the first conical roller bearing and the second conical roller bearing to the tubular portion of the second driven gear. One of the inner or outer races of the first and second conical roller bearings are relatively displaceable in an axial direction.

An outboard motor includes an engine vertically supporting a crankshaft above an engine holder and a shift mechanism switching a rotational direction of a propeller shaft by actuating a shift apparatus through a remote control from a shift lever. The shift mechanism includes a first link mechanism connecting a shift cable extending from the shift lever and a clutch rod extending toward a shift rod, the first link mechanism being disposed in a space formed between a lower surface of the engine and an upper surface of the engine holder and also includes a second link mechanism connecting the clutch rod and the shift rod and disposed in a space between a drive shaft housing and a gear case of the outboard motor.

Shift mechanism of outboard motor

There is provided a lubricating structure for an outboard motor, which can secure a sufficiently large cross-sectional area for a main oil gallery while preventing an increase in the width of an engine thereof. A water-cooled four-cycle six-cylinder V-type engine having a generally vertically disposed crankshaft is mounted on an engine holder. A cylinder block is disposed at the rear of a crankcase disposed in the foremost end (i.e. on the bow side) of the engine, and a main oil gallery extends vertically in the starboard-side side part of the cylinder block. Namely, the main oil gallery is disposed not in a central part of the cylinder block in the transverse direction thereof, but at a location outward of cylinder bores of the cylinder block.

Lubricating structure for outboard motors

In an outboard motor, an exhaust passage is formed to a member constituting an engine such as cylinder block and a water jacket for cooling the exhaust passage is formed adjacent to the exhaust passage between the exhaust passage and an outer wall of the engine constituting member. The outboard motor is further provided with an anode device which comprises an anode mounting port formed to the cylinder block as the engine constituting member so as to penetrate the outer wall thereof and opened to the water jacket, an anode holder detachably mounted to the anode mounting port so as to close the anode mounting port, and an anode mounted to a portion of the anode holder on the side of the anode mounting port.

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Tomokazu Hikosaka