US Patent Issued to HONDA MOTOR on Dec. 2 for "Electric outboard machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,012, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to HONDA MOTOR Co. LTD (Tokyo).

"Electric outboard machine" was invented by Hiromichi Konishi (Saitama, Japan), Norikazu Kawai (Saitama, Japan) and Tomoyuki Suzuki (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure improves impact resistance of an electric outboard machine. The electric outboard machine includes an outboard machine body and an attachment. The attachment attaches the outboard machine body to a rear part of a boat. The outboard machine body includes a propeller, an electric motor that drives the propeller, and a controller that controls the motor. The controller is ...