Abstract: A filter cleaning apparatus preferably comprises a filter holding assembly, a vibration assembly, and a diffusion delivery module. The filter holding assembly may secure the filter within a cleaning chamber. The vibration assembly may be operatively coupled to the filter holding assembly and may be configured to vibrate the filter. The diffusion delivery module may reciprocate along a longitudinal axis of the filter and deliver cleaning air radially and substantially perpendicular to an interior surface of the filter. The cleaning air may be pulsated to enhance the cleaning effect.

Abstract: A filter cleaning apparatus preferably comprises a filter holding assembly, a vibration assembly, and a diffusion delivery module. The filter holding assembly may secure the filter within a cleaning chamber. The vibration assembly may be operatively coupled to the filter holding assembly and may be configured to vibrate the filter. The diffusion delivery module may reciprocate along a longitudinal axis of the filter and deliver cleaning air radially and substantially perpendicular to an interior surface of the filter. The cleaning air may be pulsated to enhance the cleaning effect.

Abstract: A filter cleaning apparatus preferably comprises a filter holding assembly, a vibration assembly, and a diffusion delivery module. The filter holding assembly may secure the filter within a cleaning chamber. The vibration assembly may be operatively coupled to the filter holding assembly and may be configured to vibrate the filter. The diffusion delivery module may reciprocate along a longitudinal axis of the filter and deliver cleaning air radially and substantially perpendicular to an interior surface of the filter. The cleaning air may be pulsated to enhance the cleaning effect.

Abstract: A catalyst exhaust system includes a catalyst housing having an inlet end, an outlet end, and a passage therethough. The outlet end includes a valve seat, and a water jacket surrounds the catalyst housing. A valve housing is in flow communication with the outlet end and in flow communication with said water jacket to accommodate a valve configured to allow passage of exhaust gases but prevent water from entering the catalyst housing passage and reaching a catalyst therein.

Abstract: A catalytic reactor for an internal combustion engine having a cooling jacket surrounding multiple catalyst elements. A thermal barrier layer is formed between the catalyst elements and the cooling jacket to prevent over cooling of the catalyst elements. The thermal barrier layer can be formed from insulating elements such as fibrous material, a plurality of annular rings disposed around the catalyst elements, a corrugated layer, or can be formed by an empty space.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a fuel pump comprising a housing including therein a high pressure fuel chamber, a fuel outlet valve communicating with the high pressure fuel chamber and being operable to prevent fuel inflow and to permit fuel outflow when the fuel pressure is above a predetermined level, a fuel inlet valve communicating with the high pressure chamber and being operable to prevent fuel outflow and to permit fuel inflow, and a bearing bore extending from the high pressure chamber, a rod slideably and sealingly supported in the bearing bore for movement relative to a retracted position, and structure located in the housing for displacing the rod from the retracted position and in the direction toward the high pressure fuel chamber through an initial stroke length without encountering substantial resistance and thereafter displacing the rod through a subsequent stroke length which is effective to highly pressurize the fuel in the high pressure fuel chamber.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an outboard motor comprising a drive shaft housing including an inner wall partially defining a pumping chamber, an air inlet port communicating between the pumping chamber and the atmosphere, and an air outlet port communicating with the pumping chamber, a propeller shaft rotatably supported by the drive shaft housing, an engine mounted on the drive shaft housing, a drive shaft drivingly connecting the engine to the propeller shaft, a closure member which is supported by the drive shaft housing, which partially defines the pumping chamber, and which rotatably supports the drive shaft, an exhaust passageway communicating with the engine, a catalytic converter located in the exhaust passageway and communicating with the outlet port, and an impeller located in the pumping chamber, mounted on the drive shaft for rotation therewith, and operative to supply air to the catalytic converter.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine assembly comprising an internal combustion engine including an exhaust port, an exhaust conduit communicating with the exhaust port and having an inner surface, the conduit including first and second conduit portions having respective ends, the first and second conduit portions being connected end-to-end, a catalyst which is located within the conduit and which includes catalytic material and a sleeve surrounding the catalytic material, the sleeve having a length and an outer surface spaced from the inner surface of the conduit along substantially the entire length of the sleeve, the sleeve having thereon a rigid, radially outwardly extending flange captured between the ends of the conduit portions, and a flexible gasket between the flange and the end of one of the conduit portions.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an outboard motor comprising an engine block assembly including a lower surface having therein first and second exhaust gas openings, upper and lower cylinders having respective axes parallel to the lower surface and including respective exhaust ports, an exhaust gas collector passage communicating with the exhaust ports, an exhaust gas pulse passage extending between the collector passage and the first exhaust gas opening, and an exhaust gas discharge passage extending between the collector passage and the second exhaust gas opening and including therein a catalytic element, a drive shaft housing fixed to the lower surface of the engine block and including a discharge gas duct terminating in an underwater discharge opening, and an exhaust gas housing located in the drive shaft housing and including an upper end fixed to the lower surface of the engine block, a lower end, an exhaust gas pulse passageway communicating, at the upper end thereof, with the first exhaust gas opening and being c

Abstract: A marine propulsion device comprising a drive shaft housing, a propeller shaft rotatably supported by the drive shaft housing, an internal combustion engine drivingly connected to the propeller shaft, the engine including a cylinder block defining a cylinder having an exhaust port, and defining an exhaust outlet, and an exhaust passage between the exhaust port and the exhaust outlet, an exhaust catalyst apparatus mounted on the cylinder block, the apparatus including a tongue extending into the cylinder block exhaust passage and dividing the cylinder block exhaust passage into an upstream portion communicating with the exhaust port and a downstream portion communicating with the exhaust outlet, and the apparatus including an exhaust passage communicating between the upstream portion and the downstream portion, and a catalyst located in the apparatus exhaust passage.

Abstract: A carrier adapted for transporting an outboard motor having an upper unit, the upper unit movably supporting a tiller handle and a transom bracket adapted to releasably secure the upper unit to the transom of a boat, the carrier comprising a frame adapted for travel over the ground, a false transom supported by the frame and adapted to receive the transom bracket, and a mechanism on the frame for restricting movement of the tiller handle relative to the false transom.

Abstract: A variably unbalanced rotating mechanism comprising a frame, a main shaft having a longitudinal axis and supported on the frame for rotation about the longitudinal axis, a drive for rotating the main shaft, first and second eccentric weights mounted for rotation coaxially with the main shaft, and a mechanism for rotating the weights in common with the main shaft and for selectively rotating the weights in opposite directions relative to each other and relative to the main shaft and independently of main shaft rotation.

Abstract: A variably unbalanced rotating mechanism comprising a frame, a main shaft having a longitudinal axis and supported on the frame for rotation about the longitudinal axis, a drive for rotating the main shaft, first and second eccentric weights mounted for rotation coaxially with the main shaft, and a mechanism for rotating the weights in common with the main shaft and for selectively rotating the weights in opposite directions relative to each other and relative to the main shaft and independently of main shaft rotation.