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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2008
Filed:
May. 31, 2007
Applicants:
Masanori Tsubouchi, Wako, JP;
Kazuhiro Ishizaka, Wako, JP;
Inventors:
Masanori Tsubouchi, Wako, JP;
Kazuhiro Ishizaka, Wako, JP;
Assignee:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02M 35/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An outboard engine unit has an intake manifold extending in a front-and-rear direction along one side of an engine block and comprised of a surge tank and a plurality of intake tubes communicating with the surge tank. Each of the intake tubes is arranged so as to be separated in a vertical direction. The shape of the channel cross section of each of the intake tubes is a flat shape in which the dimension in the vertical direction is less than the dimension in a crosswise direction.