Patent ID: 8186243

Claim:
A throttle control device comprising: a device body secured to an operation handle and having a throttle lever for pulling a control wire; and a lid mounted on an upper portion of said device body and having a start/stop switch button of an engine slidably in a fore/aft direction, wherein a ridge is formed obliquely downward from rear to front on a front portion of one of outer side surfaces of upper opposite side walls of said device body and inner side surfaces of opposite side portions of the lid, a recessed groove slidably engageable along said ridge is obliquely formed in a front portion of the other with the same inclination as said ridge, a locking protrusion protruding downward and a locking groove lockable to said locking protrusion are respectively formed on a lower end surface of a rear portion of said lid and in an upper end surface of a rear portion of said device body that receives the lower end surface of said lid, said ridge is slid along said recessed groove, and the locking protrusion of said lid is pressed downward and locked in the locking groove in said device body at a slide end, which secures said lid on the device body so that said lid is not moved rearward of said device body when said switch button is pressed downward and slid rearward of said device body.