Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Hirotaka Sato

Kazuhiko Ono

Toru Hasegawa

Kenichiro Nakamura

Manabu Ichikawa

Yoji Kanaoka

Kazuyuki Ochiai

Tetsuya Kaneko

Naoyuki Yamate

Daiji Kawaguchi

Masaru Watanabe

Ryosuke Ibata

Teppei Oshima

In an exhaust-gas-purification catalytic heating device that houses a current heater in a conductive metallic housing where a catalytic unit is housed, the current heater being arranged at an upstream side of the catalytic unit along a distribution direction of exhaust gas, the current heater has a negative electrode directly coupled to the housing electrically coupled to an external ground wire, the current heater has a positive electrode with which a rod-shaped terminal is continuous, the terminal passing through the housing in an electrically insulating state so as to be electrically coupled to a power line outside the housing, and the terminal has a portion protruding from the housing, the protruding portion being covered with a terminal cover.

Exhaust-gas-purification catalytic heating device

A handlebar-mounted switch control device includes switch activation buttons which respectively correspond to specific switches, and which are arranged on surfaces of a switch case adjacent to a grip in an end portion of a handlebar. Two switch activation buttons are disposed on a front outer surface of the switch case. The two switch activation buttons are configured and placed in such a way so that a rider can easily recognize which of the two switch activation buttons the rider touches. The second switch activation button is placed above the first switch activation button, and inward of the first switch activation button in a vehicle width direction. A guide surface inclining to extend inward in the vehicle width direction toward an upper side is formed on a side surface of the switch case which is above the first switch activation button, and which faces the grip.

Handlebar-mounted switch device for a saddle-type vehicle, and vehicle including same

A battery holding structure includes a battery tray for storing a battery therein. A battery holding rack is configured to store the battery tray with the battery stored therein and to allow the battery tray to be pulled out along widthwise directions of the vehicle. A ground wire has one end connected to a negative terminal of the battery and another end connected to a grounding member on a vehicle frame. A movement prevention member fixes the other end of the ground wire to the battery tray and prevents the battery tray from being pulled out to one side along the widthwise directions of the vehicle with the ground wire which is connected to the grounding member.

Battery holding structure for vehicle

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Hirotaka Sato