Patent ID: 9670853
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: B63H,F02B,F02D,F02M

Claim:
1. An outboard motor having a vertical-shaft vee engine unit provided with a crankshaft arranged approximately vertically and left and right cylinder units arranged in a V shape, wherein the crankshaft is forward of the left and right cylinder units relative to a direction of thrust of the outboard motor, the outboard motor comprising: an air intake system unit provided with a surge tank and an intake pipe to connect the surge tank to intake ports of the left and right cylinder units, the air intake system unit being arranged in a center of a left-right direction of a rear side of the vertical-shaft vee engine unit; and at least one of an electronic control unit as an electrical component or a vapor separator as a fuel supply system component arranged to adjoin a left or right side of the air intake system unit in a rear side of the vertical-shaft vee engine unit.