Patent ID: 7798874

Claim:
An outboard motor comprising: a lower casing arranged below an upper casing; a mounting plate arranged above the upper casing; and an engine including a vertically-arranged crankshaft mounted on the mounting plate; wherein rotation of the crankshaft is transmitted to a drive shaft pivotally supported in the upper casing, has a speed thereof changed by a transmission mounted on the drive shaft, and is transmitted to a propeller shaft pivotally supported in the lower casing; the outboard motor includes an upper mount and a lower mount arranged to mount the outboard motor to a hull; the upper mount is disposed on an upper lateral surface of the upper casing; the lower mount is disposed on a lower lateral surface of the upper casing; a top surface of the upper casing includes a to surface opening through which the transmission can be inserted from above and which is covered by the mounting plate; and the mounting plate is disposed on the upper casing such that the transmission is attached to a bottom surface of the mounting plate and such that the engine is attached to a top surface of the mounting plate.