Patent ID: 11939894
Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Engines, pumps, turbines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  B | IPC B  F

Claim 14:
15. An outboard motor attachable to a hull of a marine vessel, the outboard motor comprising: an internal combustion engine including an oil filler to feed oil thereto and an oil filter to filter the oil; and a cowl to cover the internal combustion engine; wherein a portion of the cowl defines a lid body that is detachable from the cowl;
in a case that a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a bottom of the hull is a vertical direction, at least a portion of the oil filler or at least a portion of the oil filter is located above a separating line which is a boundary between the lid body and a remaining portion of the cowl; in a case of attaching and detaching the oil filter, a rotation axis of the oil filter is tilted with respect to a crank shaft of the internal combustion engine so that an upper end of the oil filter is located farther outside the internal combustion engine than a lower end of the oil filter; a lid of an oil feeding port of the oil filler is located above the separating line; and the internal combustion engine includes an oil level gauge, and a grip of the oil level gauge is located above the separating line.