US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 22 for "Shift mechanism of outboard motor, and mount structure of shift mechanism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,292, issued on July 22, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Shift mechanism of outboard motor, and mount structure of shift mechanism" was invented by Makoto Yazaki (Wako, Japan), Toru Kimura (Wako, Japan), Naoki Aikawa (Wako, Japan), Tsuyoshi Harada (Wako, Japan), Yasukata Kohashi (Wako, Japan) and Hikaru Ikeda (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shift mechanism of an outboard motor has an electric actuator having a movable rod, and a guide structure for guiding a linear motion of a sliding body connected to the movable rod. In addition, the shift mechanism includes a link rod connected to the sliding body and b...