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Application Number:  20120040572

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  OOSHITA, Sachio; Makita, Yoshihiro

Support arms are disposed on a tilting shaft on a bracket of an outboard motor. An electric actuator is mounted between the support arms. The electric actuator includes a cover member, first and second electric motors disposed individually on the opposite ends of the cover member, a feed screw configured to be rotated by the electric motors, a nut member configured to move along an axis as the feed screw rotates, a drive arm configured to move integrally with the nut member and transversely ...
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Application Number:  20120034829

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Bertram, Richard; Dowding, Peter; Hartley, Joseph Peter; Watts, Peter

Trunk piston marine engine lubrication, when the engine is fueled by heavy fuel oil, is effected by a composition comprising a major amount of an oil of lubricating viscosity containing at least 50 mass % of a Group II basestock, and respective minor amounts of an overbased metal hydrocarbyl-substituted hydroxybenzoate detergent other than such a detergent having a basicity index of less than two and a degree of carbonation of 80% or greater and 5 to 500 mass %, based on the mass of the ...
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Application Number:  20120034828

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  White, William

Lightweight and versatile outboard motors and methods for manufacturing the same from existing motorized lawn implements and lawn implement parts. The outboards consisting essentially of a motor for driving a propeller, an elongate housing creating the body of the outboard, a drive shaft disposed within the elongate housing, and a propeller. The methods involving attaching the motor to the elongate housing and the drive shaft and mounting the propeller to a second end of the elongate housing ...
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Application Number:  20120028522

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Garner, Terence; Gregory, Laury; Hartley, Joseph Peter; Watts, Peter

Trunk piston marine engine lubrication, when the engine is fueled by heavy fuel oil, is effected by a composition comprising a major amount of an oil of lubricating viscosity containing at least 50 mass % of a basestock containing greater than or equal to 90% saturates and less than or equal to 0.03% sulphur or a mixture thereof, and respective minor amounts of an over-based metal hydrocarbyl-substituted hydroxybenzoate detergent other than such a detergent having a basicity index of less than ...
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Application Number:  20120028521

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Garner, Terence; Gregory, Laura; Hartley, Joseph Peter; Watts, Peter

Trunk piston marine engine lubrication, when the engine is fueled by heavy fuel oil, is effected by a composition comprising a major amount of an oil of lubricating viscosity containing at least 50 mass % of a Group II basestock, and respective minor amounts of an overbased metal hydrocarbyl-substituted hydroxybenzoate detergent other than such a detergent having a basicity index of less than two and a degree of carbonation of 80% or greater and at least 1 mass % of a hydrocarbyl-substituted ...
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Application Number:  20120028520

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Cattapan, Paolo; Gallato, Fernando; Tognon, Andrea

The invention concerns a ship drive (1) with an upper drive unit (7a) arranged in the ship's hull (39) and a lower drive unit (7b) arranged outside the ship's hull, in which at least the lower drive unit (7b) is mounted so that it can pivot relative to the ship's hull (39), in which an input shaft (12) of the upper drive unit (7a) can be driven by a drive motor, in which at least one propeller (18, 19) ...
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Application Number:  20120028519

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Rechner, Susanne; Knust, Larry J.

A paddle for use in watersports is provided with shaft halves and blades at the end of each shaft half with a selectable offset angle between the blades. A joint connecting the shaft halves may include an interlocking coupling and a biasing member. The interlocking coupling maintains, in a use configuration, the offset angle of the blades, and allows, in a selection configuration, a change in the offset angle of the blades. The biasing member typically holds the interlocking coupling in the use ...
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Application Number:  20120028518

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  Steinhour, Dirk

This disclosure is directed to a paddle for a watercraft having an adjustable shaft with upper and lower telescoping shaft portions. A lever in the palm grip applies tension to a cable to compress a plug at the end of the upper shaft portion to frictionally engage the lower shaft ...
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Application Number:  20120028517

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Mochizuki, Yasushi; Nakazono, Yoshifumi; Ihara, Hirohide; Moue, Takayuki

A marine vessel includes an outboard motor mounting portion provided at a stern of a hull, an outboard motor locating hole provided rearward of the outboard motor mounting portion and near the outboard motor mounting portion and penetrating vertically through the stern, a platform provided rearward of the outboard motor locating hole, and an outboard motor located in the outboard motor locating hole and mounted to the outboard motor mounting portion. This structure enables an occupant of the ...
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Application Number:  20120028516

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Sipilä, Tuomas; Levander, Oskar; Dunstan, Noel

The invention relates to an arrangement for improving load response in a marine vessel, which vessel comprises a propulsion system (1) including an internal combustion engine (2), a generator (3), a main switchboard (4), and an electric propulsion unit (5). A power bank (6) is connected to the main switchboard (4), whereby the power bank (6) is arranged to store additional electric energy supplied by the generator (3) by way of the ...
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Application Number:  20120028515

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Zottele, Michele; Pellegrinetti, Andrea; Stasolla, Paolo; Zanfei, Adriano

A hybrid drive system for a ship, designed as a parallel hybrid drive system, and comprising an internal combustion engine (103), an electric machine (105), acting as a generator or motor, depending on switching an electric controller (107), a battery (106), at least one switching clutch (115, 116), and a drive device (109) for transferring the drive power to at least one propeller (108). The electric machine (105) together with a first ...
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Application Number:  20120028514

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Zottele, Michele; Grassi, Davide; Pellegrinetti, Andrea; Stasolla, Paolo; Zanfei, Adriano

A method for operating a ship propulsion system, in particular a sailing ship propulsion system, comprising an internal combustion engine (303), at least one shifting clutch (319), and a drive device (309) for transmitting drive power to at least one propeller (308). The direction of thrust of the propeller (308) is changed via the drive device (309) which is designed as a ship propulsion system which can be pivoted about a substantially vertical ...
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Application Number:  20120024211

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  Wiltse, Garry Ronald

Stabilizers (14.1, 14.2) coupled to associated stanchions (20.1, 20.2) and associated linkage assemblies (16.1, 16.2) on both sides of a central hull (12) provide for piercing or cutting through waves (76′). Aerodynamic surfaces (18.1, 18.2, 112, 114, 116, 118) over the linkage assemblies (16.1, 16.2) provide lift, as may a central keel (68) on the central hull (12). In one embodiment, each stanchion (20.1, 20.2) is coupled ...
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Application Number:  20120021660

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  ST-PIERRE, Luc; GAUDET, Pierre; LAING, Christian; BERUBE, Francois

An automatic trim system for a jet propulsion watercraft is provided. Control electronics are in communication with a steering angle sensor to monitor the steering angle of the watercraft, and evaluate a target setting for the trim taking the steering angle into consideration. Control signals are sent to an appropriate actuating device for adjusting the trim angle ...
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Application Number:  20120021659

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  OTA, Nobuharu

A marine vessel propulsion device includes an engine, a jet propulsion unit, and a reverse gate. The jet propulsion unit includes a jet port arranged to jet water toward a rear of a hull. The reverse gate is arranged to be capable of being changed in opening degree between a fully closed position of covering an entirety of the jet port and a fully opened position of not covering the jet port at all. The reverse gate is arranged to be moved, between the fully closed position and the fully opened ...
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