US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on April 22 for "Outboard motor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,861, issued on April 22, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Outboard motor" was invented by Kimitaka Saruwatari (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outboard motor includes a drive shaft cover to cover a drive shaft extending downwardly from an engine, a lower unit turnable with respect to the drive shaft cover, and a harness. A lower housing of the lower unit houses a lower portion of the drive shaft and an electrical component. The harness is connected to the electrical component through an upper space provided in the drive shaft cover and through a lower space that communicates with the upper sp...