US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Sept. 23 for "Outboard motor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,886, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Outboard motor" was invented by Junya Onoue (Shizuoka, Japan), Hiroki Koga (Shizuoka, Japan), Yoshiyuki Kadobayashi (Shizuoka, Japan), Kimitaka Saruwatari (Shizuoka, Japan) and Akihiro Noma (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outboard motor includes a bracket, an engine, an upper case, a lower case, a cavitation plate, a transmission, a cooling water passage, a first pump, and a second pump. The transmission includes a drive shaft and a propeller shaft. The cooling water passage is connected to the engine and located in the upper case a...