Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Atsuo Hojyo

Hiroatsu Inui

Naoki Kohno

Fumiaki Okubo

Kazuho Nakai

A structure for transmitting the power of a motorcycle engine includes an intermediate shaft arranged between a crankshaft and an input shaft of a transmission, and a method for making the structure. The structure and the method have the objective of shortening the distances between these three shafts, improving workability of assembling, and providing freedom of setting a speed reduction ratio. An intermediate shaft driven gear and an intermediate shaft driving gear having a diameter smaller than the intermediate shaft driven gear and are mounted in two steps, with the former overlaid on the latter, on an end of the intermediate shaft projecting outside a right case. Similarly, the intermediate shaft driven gear is engaged with a primary gear of the crankshaft, and the intermediate shaft driving gear is engaged with a primary driven gear of the input shaft at a location outside the right case.

Structure for transmitting power of a motorcycle engine, and a method of assembly of said structure

To enable the miniaturization of a crankcase side cover to lighten it in a casing of an engine and to enable the reduction of the area of each joined face to make performance for sealing the joined faces of a crankcase and the crankcase side cover satisfactory. In a casing of an engine composed of a crankcase, a crankcase side cover the inner end of which is joined to one side end of the crankcase and which covers a primary reduction gear and a clutch cover which is joined to the outer end of the crankcase side cover and which houses a clutch together with the crankcase side cover, the inside diameter d of the joined faces of a clutch enclosure enclosing the clutch of the crankcase side cover and the crankcase is set so that the inside diameter is smaller than the outside diameter D of a clutch outer in the clutch.

Engine casing

Structure for transmitting power of a motorcycle engine, and a method for assembly of said structure

A mounting structure for a cam-type torque damper is provided to ease the assembling thereof, improve the maintenance properties thereof and prevent the variation in thrust direction restricting position due to loosening or the like. A collar is spline connected to an axial end of a crankshaft, and a primary gear, a lifter, a spring and a spring holder are fitted on the collar in that order. A cotter is fitted in a groove in the collar so as to restrict the spring holder with respect to the thrust direction position to thereby assemble the cam-type torque damper into a small assembly. The cam-type torque damper so made to be a small assembly is then fastened to the axial end of the crankshaft with a bolt. A concave cam is formed in a side of the primary gear, and a convex cam provided in an axial end portion of the lifter is brought into mesh engagement with the concave cam.

Mounting structure for a cam-type torque damper

An oil pump is formed by a main body portion, a base, and a pump cover, and is provided with a rotor rotational shaft. The oil pump is formed with a main pump and a sub pump. The oil pump is attached to bond with a wall face of a thick-walled portion of a crankcase. A relief valve chamber is provided in the thick-walled portion in parallel with the rotor rotational shaft. A relief valve is contained therein in parallel with the rotor rotational shaft. A surrounding space in the relief valve chamber is directly connected to a pumping portion of the oil pump. This combination of elements and configuration provides for an oil pump that operates with efficiency, and that is small in size, light in weight.

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Saitama, Japan

Atsuo Hojyo