Outboard motor
AssigneeSanshin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasanori Takahashi, Masahiko Katoh
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Abstract
A supercharged outboard motor including a water cooling jacket that encircles the supercharger and also the duct which interconnects the supercharger with the engine for cooling of the supercharger and compressed air charge without necessitating a separate intercooler.
Claims8
An internal combustion engine having a combustion chamber and a cooling jacket, a supercharger for delivering a compressed air charge to said combustion chamber and having a cooling jacket, and means for circulating liquid coolant from the same source to the supercharger cooling jacket and the engine cooling jacket in a parallel flow pattern.
An internal combustion engine having a combustion chamber, a supercharger having a pumping chamber containing pumping for delivering a compressed air charge to said combustion chamber, means defining a cooling jacket extending around said pumping chamber for cooling said supercharger and the charge compressed by said supercharger, a cooling jacket for cooling said engine and means for pumping liquid coolant from the same source to said supercharger cooling jacket and said engine cooling jacket in a parallel flow pattern, said engine being the powering device for an outboard motor and being contained in a power head of the outboard motor.
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