Engine with turbo-charger for an outboard motor

Patent · Tue May 03 04:00:00 EDT 1988

OSTI ID:6954176

Torigai, K

An outboard motor for propelling a water craft through a body of water is described. The outboard motor comprises an internal combustion engine having an output shaft, clamping means for affixing the outboard motor to a transom of the watercraft with the output shaft rotating about a vertically extending axis, a watercraft propulsion device positioned beneath the engine, driven by the output shaft and cooperable with the body of water for propelling the watercraft therethrough, an exhaust conduit extending vertically downwardly along one vertical side of the engine, induction ports for the chambers positioned on a vertical side of the engine opposite to the one side, a turbo-charger having a turbine stage with an exhaust inlet communicating with the exhaust conduit and disposed adjacent to the exhaust conduit on the one vertical side of the engine, a compressor stage driven by the turbine stage, an intercooler located along the top of the engine and extending in a horizontal plane, means for delivering a compressed air charge from the compressor stage to the intercooler, and means for delivering the compressed air from the intercooler to the induction ports.

• Assignee: Sanshin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Hamamatsu
• Patent Number(s): US 4741162
• OSTI ID: 6954176
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
330100* -- Internal Combustion Engines
COMPRESSORS
COOLING SYSTEMS
ENERGY SYSTEMS
ENGINES
EXHAUST SYSTEMS
HEAT ENGINES
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
MACHINE PARTS
PROPULSION SYSTEMS
SHAFTS
SHIPS
SUPERCHARGERS
TURBOCHARGERS