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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 19, 1998
Tadaaki Morikami, Hamamatsu, JP;
Suzuki Kabushiki Kaisha, Hamamatsu, JP;
Abstract
An alarm device of an outboard motor arranged in operative association with an engine thereof to which a sensor device including a plurality of sensors is mounted and operated by a control power source, comprises a central control device into which an operation condition of the engine is inputted, a sensor trouble judging device connected to the central control device and the sensor device for judging a state of trouble of the sensor device, an alarm control device, a sound alarm device controlled by the alarm control device, and an alarm judging device for judging a type of an alarm, which is connected to the alarm control device so as to operate the alarm control device to operate the sound alarm device in response to an information from the sensor trouble judging device. The alarm judging device includes an engine rotational speed detection element into which a predetermined engine rotational speed is preliminarily stored and a sound mode setting element to set a sound mode of the sound alarm device to a diagnosis mode when an engine rotational speed is less than a predetermined rotational speed and to set the sound mode to a warning alarm mode when the engine rotational speed exceeds the predetermined rotational speed with sound tones of the sound alarm device different in the diagnosis mode and the warning alarm mode, respectively.