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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1999
Satoru Takahashi, Hamamatsu, JP;
Suzuki Kabushiki Kaisha, Hamamatsu, JP;
Abstract
An outboard motor is provided with an engine covered by an engine cover composed of a plurality of cover elements and formed with a port member having an cable insertion port through which operation cables are guided inside an outboard motor and an operation cable mounting structure is formed to the outboard motor, which comprises: a port member being arranged so as to straddle a plurality of the cover elements of the engine cover and composed of a first port member half provided to one of the cover elements and a second port member half provided to another one of the cover elements, the port member halves having openings opposed to each other so that when the port member halves are mated and joined together, the port member having a cable insertion port as a unit member having an opening; a grommet closing the opening of the cable insertion port; a partition wall section disposed in one of the first and second port member halves so as to divide the opening of the cable insertion port; and a boss member provided for the partition wall section which is secured to the one of cover elements through a bracket.