US 12,459,627 B2
Steering handle device for vessel
Shigeru Kuroi, Yokohama (JP)
Assigned to NHK SPRING CO., LTD., Kanagawa (JP)
Filed by NHK SPRING CO., LTD., Yokohama (JP)
Filed on Aug. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/887,478.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-132754 (JP), filed on Aug. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0054975 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. B63H 25/02 (2006.01)
CPC B63H 25/02 (2013.01) [B63H 2025/022 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A steering handle device for a vessel, comprising:
a housing including a space therein;
a tube member inserted into the space of the housing and supported by a tilt shaft having a first axis about which the tube member is rotatable back and forth with respect to the housing;
a steering shaft to which a handlebar is attached at an upper portion thereof, the steering shaft having a second axis extending in a length direction, being inserted into the tube member, and being rotatable about the second axis with respect to the tube member;
a steering arm provided at a lower end of the steering shaft and including an extending portion, the extending portion including a first portion and a second portion each extending toward an outer side of the housing, the second portion being located farther outward than the first portion, and the extending portion further including a third portion extending from an outer end of the second portion to a rear side of the housing; and
a joint member provided on a rear end side of the third portion of the steering arm, the joint member including:
a connection portion to which a joint mechanism of a steering cable is connected; and
a support portion supports the connection portion within a range in which the tilt shaft is extended in a direction along the first axis in a state in which the steering shaft is in a neutral position along a rotation direction thereof.