US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Oct. 21 for "Marine propulsion system, outboard motor, and marine vessel" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,101, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Marine propulsion system, outboard motor, and marine vessel" was invented by Masahisa Watanabe (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine propulsion system includes an outboard motor installed on a hull and including an engine to drive a propulsion generator, and a generator to generate power by driving of the engine, a capacitor provided in the outboard motor to smooth the power generated by the generator and output the smoothed power to a device on a hull side, and a power distributor provided in the outboard motor to limit an output fro...