Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Nifco Inc.

Daisuke Nohara

Takeaki Nakajima

Wataru Yada

Shinya Murabayashi

Masayasu Yoshida

Takashi Kikuchi

Hiroaki Watanabe

Kiyofumi Shida

Sachiko Yamamoto

Keita Ishihara

Kengo Kobayashi

Seiji Yagura

Youichirou Hamano

A vehicle includes: a vehicle body frame; a drive unit provided on the vehicle body frame and movable on a floor surface; a seat disposed above the vehicle body frame to support buttocks of a user; a lift unit provided between the vehicle body frame and the seat to raise and lower the seat between a low position and a high position; and at least one support member extending downward from the seat and provided, at a lower portion thereof, with a footrest for supporting soles of the user. The support member is provided to be displaceable vertically relative to the seat, and the support member is displaced such that a distance between the seat and the footrest when the seat is in the high position is greater than a distance between the seat and the footrest when the seat is in the low position.

Vehicle including a drive unit and a seat provided on the drive unit via a lift unit

A vehicle body structure () is provided with: an exhaust pipe () disposed between a fuel container () and a right framework member () so as to extend in the front-rear direction of the vehicle body; and a slide member () provided to the framework side wall () of the right framework member (). The slide member () is provided to the portion () of the framework side wall (), which is overlapped by the fuel container () and a chamber () in the width direction of the vehicle. The slide member () has a slide slope section (). The slide slope section () is tilted inward in the width direction of the vehicle from the lower end () toward the upper end () so as to approach the fuel tank ().

Vehicle body structure

A wave suppression structure for a fuel tank is provided in which a wave suppression member () disposed in the interior of a tank main body of the fuel tank is formed from a basket-shaped container () and cylindrical porous members (), the basket-shaped container () being formed from two members, first and second half bodies (L,R), two of the porous members () being supported in the interior of each of the first and second half bodies (L,R), wherein the wave supporting member () is supported on a fuel suction pipe () by joining the first and second half bodies (L,R) of the basket-shaped container () so as to sandwich a fuel suction pipe () between a through hole () thereof. This enables attachment of the wave suppression member () to the fuel suction pipe () to be completed without carrying out a cumbersome operation of inserting the fuel suction pipe () through the through hole () of the basket-shaped container () or the interior of the porous member (), thereby greatly improving the ease of attachment.

Wave suppression structure for fuel tank

A wave absorbing member including a cage-shaped container housing a sponge that imparts resistance to the passing of fuel is arranged inside a tank body. Therefore, an impact by collision of the fuel can be absorbed, noise caused by undulation of the fuel can be reduced, and violent undulation of a fuel level can be effectively suppressed by the wave absorbing member. The wave absorbing member is supported by a pipe that is arranged inside the tank body and passes through a through hole formed in the container. A movement restricting member is provided on the pipe to limit movement of the wave absorbing member along the pipe. Therefore, the wave absorbing member is reliably positioned along the pipe and within the tank body with a simple structure.

Wave absorbing structure for fuel tank

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Wako, Japan

Daisuke Nohara