Abstract: The subject invention provides a hydraulic saildrive apparatus comprising an upper unit 103 having an input shaft 1 connected to an engine 102 inside a boat, and a lower unit 104 having an output shaft 4 including a propeller shaft 2 and also having a lower portion protruding from the boat's bottom, wherein the upper unit 103 is provided with a hydraulic forward and reverse switching clutch 5 for transmitting the rotation direction of the input shaft 1 to the propeller shaft 2, the clutch 5 being capable of changing the rotation direction between forward and reverse relative to the input shaft 1.

Abstract: A method to assemble a marine drive system wherein an acceptable-unacceptable criterion on the torsional vibration of a shaft of the marine drive system is established based on the correlation between the torsional stiffness of a propeller shaft and the moment of inertia of a propeller. A desirable elastic coupling for the marine drive shaft is selected based on the criterion. The marine drive system is assembled by using a flywheel, a marine reverse and reduction gear, and an elastic coupling, whose property is changeable, lying between an input shaft of the marine reverse and reduction gear and the flywheel.

Abstract: The subject invention provides a hydraulic saildrive apparatus comprising an upper unit 103 having an input shaft 1 connected to an engine 102 inside a boat, and a lower unit 104 having an output shaft 4 including a propeller shaft 2 and also having a lower portion protruding from the boat's bottom, wherein the upper unit 103 is provided with a hydraulic forward and reverse switching clutch 5 for transmitting the rotation direction of the input shaft 1 to the propeller shaft 2, the clutch 5 being capable of changing the rotation direction between forward and reverse relative to the input shaft 1.

Abstract: A power generating and propelling system of a vessel has an electric power generating device (10) installed between an internal combustion engine (2) and a transmission (3). A stator (11) of the generating device (10) is built in a flywheel housing (21a) of the internal combustion engine (2) or a casing (10a) connected to the flywheel housing (21a). A rotary shaft of the generating device (10) is disposed coaxially or eccentrically parallel to a crankshaft (2a) of the internal combustion engine (2) or an input shaft (3a) of the transmission (3) in the same direction with the crankshaft (2a) of the internal combustion engine (2).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide improved torsional rigidity of an elastic coupling for use in a marine engine which couples an engine to a reversing gear. The elastic coupling comprises at least one low-rigidity element providing torsional rigidity during transmission of a predetermined low torque; and at least one high-rigidity element providing, during transmission of a predetermined high torque, torsional rigidity higher than that provided by the low-rigidity element.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method to assemble a marine drive system wherein an acceptable-unacceptable criterion on the torsional vibration of a shaft of the marine drive system is established based on the correlation between the torsional stiffness of a propeller shaft and the moment of inertia of a propeller; a desirable component for the marine drive shaft is selected based on the criterion; and the marine drive system is assembled by using the selected components, the marine drive system comprising a flywheel 2, a marine reverse and reduction gear 4, and a elastic coupling 3, whose property are changeable, lying between an input shaft of the marine reverse and reduction gear 6 and the flywheel 2; and the component for the shaft of the marine drive system is the elastic coupling.

Abstract: A power generating and propelling system of a vessel has an electric power generating device (10) installed between an internal combustion engine (2) and a transmission (3). A stator (11) of the generating device (10) is built in a flywheel housing (21a) of the internal combustion engine (2) or a casing (10a) connected to the flywheel housing (21a). A rotary shaft of the generating device (10) is disposed coaxially or eccentrically parallel to a crankshaft (2a) of the internal combustion engine (2) or an input shaft (3a) of the transmission (3) in the same direction with the crankshaft (2a) of the internal combustion engine (2).

Abstract: A power generating and propelling system of a vessel has an electric power generating device (10) installed between an internal combustion engine (2) and a transmission (3). A stator (11) of the generating device (10) is built in a flywheel housing (21a) of the internal combustion engine (2) or a casing (10a) connected to the flywheel housing (21a). A rotary shaft of the generating device (10) is disposed coaxially or eccentrically parallel to a crankshaft (2a) of the internal combustion engine (2) or an input shaft (3a) of the transmission (3) in the same direction with the crankshaft (2a) of the internal combustion engine (2).

Abstract: A power generating and propelling system of a vessel has an electric power generating device (10) installed between an internal combustion engine (2) and a transmission (3). A stator (11) of the generating device (10) is built in a flywheel housing (21a) of the internal combustion engine (2) or a casing (10a) connected to the flywheel housing (21a). A rotary shaft of the generating device (10) is disposed coaxially or eccentrically parallel to a crankshaft (2a) of the internal combustion engine (2) or an input shaft (3a) of the transmission (3) in the same direction with the crankshaft (2a) of the internal combustion engine (2).

Abstract: In carrying out a crash-go-astern operation for switching operating means (2a) of a hydraulic clutch mechanism (100) provided to a marine reduction and reverse gear (1) from a forward setting (F) to a reverse setting in a stroke so as to abruptly stop in traveling ahead, a propeller speed (PN) is detected in neutral (N) halfway through the switching and initial fitting pressure (Po) of a reverse driving clutch (90) is calculated by using a map of the initial fitting pressure (Po) of reverse clutch pressure (Pr) formed according to the propeller speed based on a ship load (SL) in advance before switching to the reverse setting (R), the reverse driving clutch (90) is set at the calculated initial fitting pressure (Po) when the operating means is switched to the reverse setting (R), and then the reverse clutch pressure (Pr) is increased to a maximum value (Pm) as an engine speed (EN) increases.