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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2015
Applicant:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Kazuhiro Ishizaka, Wako, JP;
Yoshihiko Fukuda, Wako, JP;
Haruo Tsusaka, Wako, JP;
Tetsuro Ikeno, Wako, JP;
Tomoharu Tajima, Wako, JP;
Assignee:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16D 3/12 (2006.01); F16C 3/06 (2006.01); B63H 20/14 (2006.01); F16C 17/04 (2006.01); F16C 17/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C 3/06 (2013.01); B63H 20/14 (2013.01); F16C 17/04 (2013.01); F16C 17/22 (2013.01); F16C 2360/22 (2013.01); Y10T 74/2178 (2015.01);
Abstract
In an outboard motor adapted to be mounted on a hull and equipped with an engine having a crankshaft located parallel with a gravity axis and a vertical shaft connected to the crankshaft to be rotated around the gravity axis, an urger is disposed at a position between the crankshaft and the vertical shaft to urge the crankshaft upward in a direction parallel with the gravity axis.