Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Kaori Goto

Hiroshi Iwakami

Hidenori Nagura

Yusaku Yamashita

Yuki Yoshimura

Mamoru Isomura

A technique for suppressing the stay of liquefied fuel in a purge pipe in a saddle seat type vehicle having a canister for adsorbing fuel gas. A motorcycle includes a center tunnel above which a foot passage space for allowing the passage of an operator's foot in riding the vehicle is formed and a fuel tank located inside the center tunnel on the front side of an engine. The center tunnel is provided so that a lowermost point of the foot passage space is higher in level than a connection point where a purge pipe is connected to an intake pipe, and the center tunnel has an inclined portion inclined upward from the lowermost point toward the front end of the vehicle. A purge control valve is located at a position on the front side of the lowermost point and higher in level than a canister.

Saddle seat type vehicle

An electric two/three-wheeled vehicle includes: a battery case which houses a battery supplying electric power to an electric motor; a leg shield which covers, from a front, legs of a rider sitting on a riding seat; a cooling air inlet duct which has a downstream end portion thereof connected to the battery case; and a cooling fan which introduces cooling air into the battery case through the cooling air inlet duct. In the electric two/three-wheeled vehicle, an opening () open toward a rear of the vehicle is provided in the leg shield (), and an upstream end of the cooling air inlet duct () is connected to the leg shield () in such a manner as to continue to the opening (). Accordingly, it is possible to cool a battery while preventing entry of dust into a battery case as much as possible.

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Wako, Japan

Kaori Goto