B - Operations – Transporting – 63 – H
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
63
H
B63H 21/21 (2006.01) B63H 21/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2683233
In an apparatus for controlling an outboard motor having an internal combustion engine to power a propeller, and a torque converter interposed between the engine and a drive shaft and equipped with a lockup clutch, it is configured to have a throttle opening detector that detects throttle opening of a throttle valve of the engine, a throttle opening change amount calculator that calculates a change amount of the calculated throttle opening, and a clutch ON unit that makes the lockup clutch ON when the calculated change amount is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, and keeps the lockup clutch ON during a predetermined time period. With this, it becomes possible to improve acceleration performance immediately after the engine speed is accelerated.
Ikeda Hikaru
Kuriyagawa Koji
Matsuda Yoshiyuki
Yoshimura Hajime
Goudreau Gage Dubuc
Honda Motor Co. Ltd.
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