US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Oct. 28 for "Outboard motor and seal for outboard motor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,011, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Outboard motor and seal for outboard motor" was invented by Kazuhiko Inoue (Hiroshima, Japan), Kentaro Toya (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hiroyuki Hasegawa (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outboard motor includes a seal to seal a space between a peripheral edge of a shroud opening and a peripheral edge of a cowl opening. The seal includes a base plate fixed to the peripheral edge of the shroud opening and a rectangular annular seal lip extending from the base plate in elastic contact with the peripheral edge of the cowl opening. The recta...