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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2005
Applicants:
Hideaki Takada, Wako, JP;
Taiichi Otobe, Wako, JP;
Shinsaku Nakayama, Wako, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B63H 21/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In an outboard motor shift control system having a shift mechanism including a forward gear, a reverse gear and a clutch and an electric motor moving the clutch to engage with one of the forward and reverse gears or to disengage it therefrom, current supplied to the motor is detected, and completion of shift change is discriminated based on the detected current. With this, it becomes possible to detect completion of the shift change accurately, without being affected by shift mechanism aging and manufacturing variances.