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US 2017/0245431 A1Published application
Lawn mower
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsKoji Kuriyagawa, Hajime Yoshimura
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Abstract
A lawn mower includes a housing with an opened bottom, a hollow shaft extending in a vertical direction of the housing and including a lower end positioned within the housing, a cutter blade, flaps provided for at least part of the cutter blade in a manner that the flaps have a flap angle changeable along a horizontal line, an actuator for outputting an output to control the flap angle of the flap, and a transmission mechanism accommodated in the hollow shaft for transmitting the output of the actuator to the flaps.
Claims6
A lawn mower comprising:
- a housing including an opened bottom;
- a rotation shaft extending in a vertical direction of the housing and including a lower end positioned within the housing;
- a cutter blade provided for the rotation shaft and accommodated in the housing, the cutter blade extending along a horizontal line which is perpendicular to the rotation shaft;
- a flap provided for at least part of the cutter blade, the flap having a flap angle changeable along the horizontal line;
- an actuator configured to provide an output to control the flap angle of the flap;
- and
- a transmission mechanism configured to transmit the output of the actuator to the flap,
- wherein the rotation shaft comprises a hollow shaft;
- and
- the transmission mechanism is accommodated inside the hollow shaft.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.