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US 6,293,837 B1Granted
Trim-tilt device for marine propulsion unit
AssigneeShowa Corporation
InventorTamotsu Nakamura
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Abstract
A trim-tilt device for a marine propulsion unit is described, having a portion of a cylinder of a cylinder device which projects from a housing outward in a region of a trimming operation and is covered with a tank constituting a hydraulic fluid supply/discharge device.
Claims4
A trim-tilt device for a marine propulsion unit wherein a cylinder device is mounted between a hull and the marine propulsion unit freely tiltably supported by the hull;
- and wherein a hydraulic fluid is supplied from a hydraulic fluid supply/discharge device into the cylinder device and discharged from the cylinder device into the hydraulic fluid supply/discharge device to thereby expand and contract the cylinder device and thereby trim and tilt the marine propulsion unit,
- the cylinder device comprising a cylinder connected to one of the hull and the marine propulsion unit and a piston rod connected to the other thereof,
- the cylinder of the cylinder device being covered with a tank constituting the hydraulic fluid supply/discharge device.
A trim-tilt device for a marine propulsion unit, wherein a cylinder device is mounted between a hull and the marine propulsion unit freely tiltably supported by the hull;
- and wherein a hydraulic fluid is supplied from a hydraulic fluid supply/discharge device into the cylinder device and is discharged from the cylinder device into the hydraulic fluid supply/discharge device to thereby expand and contract the cylinder device and thereby trim and tilt the marine propulsion unit,
- the cylinder device comprising:
- a housing connected to one of the hull and marine propulsion unit to form a large-diameter trim chamber;
- a cylinder telescopically inserted into the trim chamber and forming a small-diameter tilt chamber;
- a large-diameter trim piston fixed to an end portion of the cylinder within the trim chamber of the housing and serving to partition the trim chamber into a first trim chamber of a cylinder accommodation side and a second trim chamber of an anti cylinder accommodation side;
- a piston rod being connected to the other of the hull and the marine propulsion unit that is telescopically inserted into the tilt chamber of the cylinder;
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- a small-diameter tilt piston being fixed to an end portion of the piston rod within the tilt chamber of the cylinder and serving to partition the tilt chamber into a first tilt chamber of a piston rod accommodation side and a second tilt chamber of an anti piston rod accommodation side,
- a portion of the cylinder of the cylinder device which projects from the housing outward in a region of a trimming operation being covered with a tank constituting the hydraulic fluid supply/discharge device.
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