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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2007
Hiroatsu Inui, Saitama, JP;
Hiromi Sumi, Saitama, JP;
Eiji Kittaka, Saitama, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A crankcase structure of an internal combustion engine has a desirable shaft support achieved by maintaining the strength of a side wall of a crankcase at a high level without increasing the weight and the size of the internal combustion engine even when the internal combustion engine has an output shaft projecting from the crankcase. A crankcase structure has a crankshaft and a counter shaft that are rotatably supported on a partitioning plane of a crankcase. A main shaft is oriented in the fore-and-aft direction and is rotatably supported on opposed front and rear walls of either one of the upper and lower crankcases. An output shaft to be driven by a power of the counter shaft penetrates through the front and rear walls of one of the upper and lower crankcases by which the main shaft is not rotatably supported, and projects to the front and rear.