Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Yasuyuki Yamazaki

Akira Kato

The outboard motorincludes an electronic control unitthat acquires a trim angle from a trim angle sensor and controls the actuator for trim adjustment. The electronic control unit acquires the trim angle at predetermined time intervals, stores each stably obtained trim angle in the memory as a stop trim angle, and compares each current value of the detected trim angle with the stop trim angle. It is determined if the trim angle sensor is abnormal or not based on the current value of the detected trim angle and the stop trim angle, and when it is determined that the trim angle sensor is abnormal, the operation of the actuator is restricted.

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Saitama, Japan

Yasuyuki Yamazaki