US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on Oct. 6 for "Outboard motor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,902, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Outboard motor" was invented by Yoshihiko Okabe (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outboard motor includes an electric motor, a drive shaft, a propeller, a propeller shaft, a cooling water flow path, a water pump including an impeller and a pump shaft, a first gear mechanism, and a second gear mechanism. The first gear mechanism includes a first gear to rotate together with the drive shaft and a second gear to mesh with the first gear and rotate together with the propeller shaft. The second gear mechanism includes a third gear, different f...