Patents Assigned to Ark System Corporation
  • Patent number: 7413491
    Abstract: In an outboard drive or an inboard-outboard drive, power generated by a single engine is transmitted in left and right directions from a main drive shaft, thereby finally causing left and right propellers to be rotated, the left and right propellers being arranged about the main drive shaft so as to be spaced apart from the main drive shaft at approximately equal distances from the main drive shaft and facing a travel direction of a marine vessel, the outboard drive or inboard-outboard drive being provided with left and right shift cam assemblies for causing rotation situations of the propellers to be controlled dependently from each other, the rotation situations including normal rotation, reverse rotation and non-rotation situations of the propellers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Ark System Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Kawamoto