Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Showa Corporation

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Yutaka Giken Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Showa Seisakusho

Honda Giken Gokyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshimi Watanabe

Masaki Tsunoda

Hitoshi Suzuki

Yasuo Funami

Shigeaki Kuwabara

Kouji Koishikawa

Tetsu Wada

Shunya Senda

Hibiki Koga

Manabu Nishi

Hiroki Muta

Kenichi Goto

Teruki Hatano

Satoshi Nishimiya

Katsuya Takegoshi

Hiroyuki Yoshida

Kenji Nakamura

Shinichi Ide

Takanori Suzuki

Yoshiyuki Matsuda

Tokuji Yoshimoto

Hiroshi Kawamura

Shinsuke Sekikawa

Gunji Saito

Kazuya Yamashita

Masaharu Omagari

Tomohiro Hirano

Yukio Tada

Kenji Ishikawa

Takahiro Miyata

Kunio Banba

Mitsuhiro Hayashi

Minoru Toya

Shinichi Miyakoshi

Chiharu Sohda

The present invention provides a server apparatus communicably connected to a vehicle and a plurality of information terminals, comprising: a reception unit configured to receive abnormality detection information from the vehicle; a selection unit configured to select, if the reception unit receives the abnormality detection information, among the plurality of information terminals, the information terminal existing within a predetermined range from the vehicle as a target terminal to which the abnormality notification information of the vehicle is to be transmitted; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the abnormality notification information to the information terminal selected by the selection unit.

Server apparatus, vehicle, and method for managing a plurality of vehicles executing work in a predetermined area

The present invention is an information management apparatus, capable of communicating with a plurality of vehicles, the apparatus comprising a receiving unit for receiving information indicating an occurrence of a failure in one vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, from the one vehicle, and a transmission unit for transmitting information based on the failure to the other vehicles of the plurality of vehicles, thereby, a recurrence of a similar failure in a predetermined region can be appropriately prevented.

Information management apparatus, vehicle, and method

A vertical power unit includes an input shaft and an output shaft which have axes in the vertical direction and are vertically arranged to each other; and a torque converter between the input shaft and the output shaft. The output shaft includes an upper output shaft connected to a turbine runner and a lower output shaft connected to the upper output shaft. An oil tank and an oil pump are provided outside the torque converter. The upper output shaft is provided with a vertical hole which communicates at an upper end with a circulation circuit of the torque converter so as to introduce the oil discharged by the oil pump into the circulation circuit, and a bottom wall which closes a lower end of the vertical hole. Thus, an working oil is constantly supplied to the circulation circuit of the torque converter through the interior of the output shaft, thereby cooling the working oil in the circulation circuit, and improves maintainability of loading devices driven by the output shaft.

Vertical power unit and outboard engine system

In a marine gas cylinder apparatus provided with a switching valve apparatus capable of switching a communication state among a piston rod side oil chamber, a piston side oil chamber and a gas chamber, the switching valve apparatus is structured such that each of respective poppet valves are arranged in each of ports open to a communication chamber provided in a valve case, each of balls is held between a ball operation surface of a rotation plate supported to the valve case and each of the poppet valves. Each of the poppet valves is moved close to or apart from the corresponding port via each of the balls in accordance with a rotating operation of the rotation plate.

Marine gas cylinder apparatus

In a marine gas cylinder apparatus provided with a switching valve apparatus capable of switching a communication state among a piston rod side oil chamber, a piston side oil chamber and a gas chamber, an open timing of a poppet valve provided in a communication passage communicated with a gas chamber is made antecedent to an open timing of poppet valves provided in the other communication passages when opening the switching valve apparatus.

In a hydraulic circuit of a tilt device for a marine propulsion unit provided with a tilt cylinder device and a trim cylinder device, a throttle is provided in a communication passage connecting a first chamber of the trim cylinder device to a tank.

Hydraulic circuit of tilt device for marine propulsion unit

An outboard motor body case supported on a swivel shaft through a connecting member. The swivel shaft is vertically swingable about a tilting shaft. An engine is mounted at an upper portion of the outboard motor body case, with a crankshaft thereof being oriented vertically, and a flywheel is mounted at a lower end of the crankshaft and disposed between an engine block and the connecting member. A dynamo is mounted within the flywheel, and a starter motor is engaged with a ring gear which is formed around an outer periphery of the flywheel. Thus, since the flywheel having a large weight is mounted at the lower end of the crankshaft, the position of the center of gravity of the outboard motor is lowered. Therefore, it is possible to easily perform a tilting-up about the tilting shaft with a small force. Moreover, since the flywheel is mounted on a power taking-off side of the crankshaft, the torsional vibration of the crankshaft can be reduced.

Outboard motor, and engine thereof

Outboard motor and engine thereof

A cylinder block of a vertically oriented multicylinder engine includes a cylinder block structure which is configured to support a crankshaft in a vertical orientation. The cylinder block includes a cylinder head mounting surface thereupon, and a plurality of cylinders therein. The plurality of cylinders are configured along horizontal axes. A reinforcing rib or wall is included, with an inclined surface which is inclined with respect to the axes of the cylinders, to ensure that oil which may contact the reinforcing rib flows downward into the crankcase of the engine.

Cylinder block structure of vertical type multi-cylinder engine

In a vertical engine having a crankshaft directed in a vertical direction and a flywheel provided on a lower end of the crankshaft projected through a bottom wall of a crank chamber, the crank chamber is formed by a skirt section integral with a cylinder block and a split crankcase attached to the skirt section putting respective contacting faces together and an oil dropping hole is formed in a bearing wall section provided on the cylinder block side and forming a lowest crank bearing section within the crank chamber. The oil dropping hole communicates with an lower side of the bearing wall section and an upper side of the bearing wall section positioned within a lowest cylinder and is inclined downward from the cylinder side to the contacting face of the skirt section facing to the split crankcase. A flywheel space is formed under the bottom wall of the crank chamber and an oil pan is provided under the flywheel space. An oil return passage extending from the crank chamber to the oil pan detours around the flywheel space.

Vertical engine

A controller for a Hall effect sensor includes a sensor section including a Hall effect sensor with a hysteresis set in the output electric signal characteristic with respect to the magnetic flux density, a power supply section for supplying a source power to the Hall effect sensor, and a signal processor for processing a signal output from the sensor section. The power supply section supplies power with a voltage, which is varied cyclically in a predetermined range and is increased gradually, to the Hall effect sensor.

Controller for Hall effect sensor using cyclically varying power

A steering system for a boat propelling apparatus is disclosed, which includes an operation unit, a steering piston-and-cylinder assembly and an operating fluid switching unit. The operation unit causes a steering arm of a propelling unit to be operated with operation of a steering wheel installed in the boat. The steering piston-and-cylinder assembly is connected to an operating fluid supply pump and a drain tank and capable of being supplied with operating fluid. Its piston rod is coupled to the steering arm. The operating fluid switching unit is disposed between the steering piston-and-cylinder assembly on one hand and the operating fluid supply pump and the drain tank on the other hand, and it switches the flow of operating fluid with the operation of the operation unit. It includes a switching section having a poppet valve coupled to the operation unit. The operating fluid switching unit includes a switching section and a normally closed drain control section. The switching section switches the flow of operating fluid directed form the operating fluid supply pump to the steering piston-and-cylinder assembly. The drain control section controls the flow of operating fluid directed from the operating fluid supply pump to the drain tank, and after the lapse of a predetermined period of time from the instant of start of the operating fluid supply pump it is closed, whereby operating fluid is led to the switching section only. The operating fluid supply pump is operative at all times, and it leads operating fluid through the drain control section to the drain tank in the inoperative state of the operation unit while leading operating fluid through the switching section to the steering piston-and-cylinder assembly in the operative state of the operation unit.

Steering system for boat propelling apparatus

A power steering device for use with a boat propulsion unit has a hydraulic cylinder unit for angularly moving a steering arm of the boat propulsion unit. A rotary valve mechanism for supplying working oil from a working oil tank to the hydraulic cylinder unit and discharging working oil from the hydraulic cylinder unit to the working oil tank comprises a flat valve body having oil holes defined transversely therethrough and a valve housing assembly housing the flat valve body and having ports defined therein for communication with the oil holes, the ports being connected to the working oil tank and the hydraulic cylinder unit. The power steering device also includes a steering shaft for operating the rotary valve mechanism in response to a steering action. The hydraulic cylinder unit, the rotary valve mechanism, and the steering shaft are integrally joined to each other.

Power steering device for boat propulsion unit

The angle of trim of a propulsion unit of a boat is controlled by actuating a tilt and trim unit based on an angle of the propulsion unit. If the angle of the hull of the boat with respect to the horizontal plane or the acceleration of the hull exceeds a predetermined value, the tilt and trim unit is actuated to reduce the angle of trim in overriding relation to a control mode for controlling the angle of trim based on the angle of the propulsion unit.

Method of and apparatus for controlling the angle of trim of marine

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Saitama, Japan

Yoshimi Watanabe