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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2001
Masashi Takayanagi, Hamamatsu, JP;
Suzuki Kabushiki Kaisha, Hamamatsu, JP;
Abstract
A fuel cooling apparatus of an outboard motor with a water-cooled engine having a vapor separator, a fuel injector positioned to supply a fuel from the vapor separator into the engine, a high pressure fuel pump positioned in the vapor separator to feed the fuel under pressure to the fuel injector, and a pressure regulator positioned in the vapor separator to reduce a pressure of a return fuel, the fuel cooling apparatus including a fuel cooler having fuel and cooling water passages arranged side by side in parallel, the fuel passage interposed in a high pressure return fuel hose branched off from a high pressure fuel hose connecting the high pressure fuel pump and fuel injector and connected to upstream of the pressure regulator, the cooling water passage being positioned to circulate cooling water for cooling the engine to cool the fuel in the fuel passage.