Outboard motor having a cowling
AssigneeYamaha Marine Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKentaro Kameoka
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Abstract
An outboard motor 1 has a cowling 10 of a two-piece structure including a top cowl 11 and a bottom cowl 12. Mating portions of the top and bottom cowls include a watertight seal. A first, horizontally-directed sealing portion is not visible from outside the cowling. A second, vertically-directed sealing portion is positioned inwardly from the first sealing portion. In some embodiments, an elongate rib depends from the top cowl generally into the bottom cowl. In other embodiments, the second sealing portion is position generally above the first sealing portion.
Claims20
An outboard motor comprising a cowling having a top cowl and a bottom cowl adapted to be joined together, the top cowl comprising a mating portion adapted to releasably mate with a corresponding mating portion of the bottom cowl, a sealing structure configured to create a generally watertight seal between the mating portions when the top and bottom cowls are joined together, wherein the sealing structure comprises a generally vertically-directed sealing portion and a generally horizontally-directed sealing portion, the sealing portions adapted to create generally watertight seals, wherein the vertically-directed sealing portion is disposed generally above the horizontally-directed sealing portion when the top and bottom cowls are joined together.
An outboard motor comprising a cowling having a top cowl and a bottom cowl adapted to be joined together, the top cowl comprising a mating portion adapted to releasably mate with a corresponding mating portion of the bottom cowl, a sealing structure configured to create a generally watertight seal between the mating portions when the top and bottom cowls are joined together, wherein the sealing structure comprises a generally vertically-directed sealing portion and a generally horizontally-directed sealing portion, the sealing portions adapted to create generally watertight seals, wherein the vertically-directed sealing portion is arranged generally inwardly relative to the horizontally-directed sealing portion when the top and bottom cowls are joined together.
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