US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Dec. 9 for "Marine propulsion device with simplified wiring of power lines" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,978, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Marine propulsion device with simplified wiring of power lines" was invented by Hiroki Koga (Shizuoka, Japan), Yoshiyuki Kadobayashi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Akihiro Noma (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine propulsion device includes a drive shaft, a propeller shaft, and a lower case that houses the propeller shaft. In the marine propulsion device, a power generator generates power using a torque of the drive shaft or the propeller shaft, and the generated power is supplied to an electric actuator to drive a driven unit through a first p...