Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Masaharu Omagari

Kenji Nakamura

Katsuhiko Ito

Masahiro Inoue

Yoshimi Watanabe

Takashi Shichinohe

Hitoshi Suzuki

Hitoshi Furuhashi

Katsumi Ebara

Gunji Saito

Kei Yoshinaga

Hiroaki Iguchi

Tsuneo Kazikawa

Takahumi Suzuki

A steering handlebar apparatus for a vehicle includes a rod-shaped steering handlebar having a hand grip at a distal end thereof, and also includes both a clutch lever and a hot start lever mounted thereon at a position proximal to the hand grip. A switch holder for holding various switches is mounted to the steering handlebar at a position proximal to the hand grip. The hot start lever is journaled on the lower surface of the switch holder so that the user can operate the hot start lever with the thumb of the hand which is holding the hand grip, and can simultaneously turn off the clutch lever with other fingers of the same hand. The inventive arrangement provides a steering handlebar apparatus for a vehicle which facilitates simultaneous operation of a handle lever and a hot start lever using the hand which is holding a hand grip of a steering handlebar.

Ergonomically configured steering handlebar apparatus for a vehicle

A generator is provided inside the casings of a power unit which is fitted to the rear end of a crank shaft. The generator has a stator provided to a generator cover detachably fitted to cover a rear opening of the casing. A harness extends from the stator and is led outside through a grommet provided between the joining faces of the casing and the generator cover. A space is formed behind the generator cover to insert a tool such as an impact wrench with the power unit left mounted on the vehicle body. It is possible to detach and maintain the generator only by detaching the generator cover while leaving the power unit mounted on the vehicle body.

Power unit for a sitting-type vehicle

A reverse lock-out control employing a bracket fixed to the handle bar of a vehicle and associated with a brake lever pivotly mounted to that bracket. The device includes a control lever pivotly mounted to the bracket adjacent the brake lever. A pin is slidably associated with the brake lever and a hole is provided in the control lever such that the brake lever and control lever may be engaged by the pin when the brake lever is in the off position. The control lever is linked to a reverse gear lock-out such that with the pin engaged, application of the brake will result in actuation of the lock-out mechanism.

Reverse device for a vehicle

A vertical engine type cultivator of the type that has an internal combustion engine on an upper side, a wheel shaft on a lower side and an operational handle on a rear side. The engine is formed such that the engine main body thereof is provided with a vertically directional crankshaft extending downwards through an oil case. A frame casing on the lower side of the oil case and a clutch mechanism interposed between the crankshaft and an output shaft disposed below the crankshaft is contained in the frame casing. An operational member for the clutch mechanism is provided on the oil case side.

Cultivator having a vertically operated engine

A wheel for a light-weight vehicle having an integrally assembled structure of a boss, a disc, a rim, and a plurality of ribs, in which the rim having a flat outer surface is integrally formed on the outer peripheral surface of the disc, and a rubber tire having a U-shaped cross-section is fitted on this rim, the inside surfaces of the side walls of the U-shaped rubber tire being received on the radially extending ribs provided on both surfaces of the disc.

Wheel for an elastic U-shaped tire

Growing community of inventors

Saitama, Japan

Masaharu Omagari