Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Bosch Corporation

Kazuma Waida

Yoshinori Tsumiyama

Hidetoshi Kaku

Shunsaku Ono

Tyler Furman

Junya Iwatsuki

Kenichi Jino

Manabu Kokawa

Yoshimoto Matsuda

Kazuhiro Maeda

Itsuo Takegami

Hirokazu Morita

Yoji Onishi

Masashi Sakata

Shigeru Yamashita

Hiroyuki Iwai

Takafumi Hisamori

Masashi Nishiike

Tooru Ogino

Dustin Meyer

Eizou Sakai

An electric vehicle comprises an electric motor which rotates a wheel; a battery which is an electric power supply unit for the electric motor; and a battery accommodating space which is provided in a vehicle body and accommodates the battery therein; wherein the battery accommodating space includes a first accommodating section which stores a standard battery pack including a first battery as the battery, and a second accommodating section which accommodates an optional battery pack including a second battery as the battery such that the optional battery pack is removable from the vehicle body, and wherein a voltage of the first battery is a value corresponding to an activation voltage of the electric motor, and the electric vehicle is capable of driving with an electric power supplied from at least the first battery.

Electric vehicle

A brake control device for a brake system. The control device can perform both an interlocking brake control and an antilock brake control. The brake system includes a front-wheel hydraulic circuit, a front-wheel-side braking part; a rear-wheel hydraulic circuit, a rear-wheel-side braking part; and an electrically-operated pump which pressurizes the brake fluid. The brake control device includes a usual voltage mode where the interlocking brake control or the anti-lock brake control is performed when the supply voltage is a first voltage or more, and a low voltage mode where at least one of the interlocking brake control and the anti-lock brake control is performed in a limited manner when the supplied voltage is a second, lower voltage. An operation mode is changed from the usual voltage mode to the low voltage mode when it is determined that the supply voltage becomes lower than the first voltage.

Brake control device

A motorcycle comprises an electricity accumulator configured to supply electric power to driving devices required for driving of the motorcycle and to non-driving devices; a voltage detector configured to detect a voltage of the electricity accumulator; and a power supply controller configured to control supply of the electric power; the non-driving devices including electric motor devices in an electric motor braking system configured to be electrically driven to assist braking and non-driving electric motor devices other than the electric motor devices in the electric motor braking system; and the power supply controller being configured to inhibit the electric power from being supplied to at least one specified non-driving electric motor device of the non-driving electric motor devices, when the voltage of the electricity accumulator which is detected by the voltage detector is not more than a first predetermined voltage.

Motorcycle

An output control unit of a vehicle, having a front riding space and a rear riding space, includes a riding detection device for detecting the presence of a passenger in the rear riding space. When the riding detection device detects the passenger, the output control unit regulates the output of the engine as compared with the output when the riding detection device does not detect a passenger in the rear riding space.

Output control unit of a vehicle

A vehicle includes a front seat and a rear seat that is changeable between an installed state in which the passenger can be seated and a retracted state in which the passenger is not seated and the rear seat is retracted. The vehicle includes an output control unit controlling the output of an engine, and a detection device for detecting the installed state of the rear seat. When the detection device detects the installed state of the rear seat, the output control unit regulates the output of the engine as compared with the output when the detection device does not detect the installed state of the rear seat.

Vehicle with engine output control

A pick-up style utility vehicle including a front seat, a rear seat and a cargo bed in order from the front side to the rear side of the vehicle, and a screen for partitioning the cargo bed and ride space on the front side of the cargo bed. The cargo bed has at least a stationary bottom plate and an expansion bottom plate, and is changeable between an expanded state where the cargo bed is expanded forward into the ride space and a non-expanded state where the cargo bed does not occupy the ride space. Also, the expansion bottom plate is pivotable on a horizontal shaft in the right and left direction relative to the stationary bottom plate and the screen.

Pick-up style utility vehicle with expandable cargo bed

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Kobe, Japan

Kazuma Waida