Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha

Yuhei Suzuki

Kimitaka Saruwatari

Akira Harabe

Genta Otsuki

An outboard motor includes a shift actuator, a wire connector to allow a wire of a mechanical remote control to be connected thereto and operable to be moved by the wire, a shift detector to detect that the wire connector has moved to a neutral position corresponding to a shift state of a neutral state or a drive position corresponding to the shift state of a drive state, and a controller configured or programmed to perform a control to drive the shift actuator to switch the shift state to the neutral state or the drive state based on a detection result of the shift detector.

Outboard motor and marine vessel

An outboard motor includes a bracket, an outboard motor main body including an upper portion attachable to a hull via the bracket and a lower portion located below the upper portion and on which a propeller is provided, a first steering mechanism to rotate the upper portion in a right-left direction with respect to the hull, and a second steering mechanism to rotate the lower portion in the right-left direction with respect to the upper portion.

A marine vessel propulsion device having a metal component in contact with water. The marine vessel propulsion device includes an anticorrosive anode made of a metal material that is less corrosion-resistant than the metal component, is electrically connected to the metal component, and is disposed in contact with the water contacting the metal component, a primary reference electrode isolated from the metal component and the anticorrosive anode, and disposed in contact with the water contacting the metal component, and a potentiometer that detects a potential difference of the metal component or the anticorrosive anode with respect to the primary reference electrode.

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Iwata, Japan

Yuhei Suzuki