Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Sankei Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Masahiko Higuchi

Yoshihiko Eguchi

Masayuki Uegane

Hidenori Suzuki

Masamichi Fujishiro

Tomohide Sawada

Jun Fukazawa

Kenji Kozaki

Hidemasa Sugai

Matsuo Iwama

Kouji Harada

Yoshiyuki Gushiken

A washer nozzle device for spraying a washer fluid onto a front window panel is mounted to a vehicle body. The vehicle body includes a front hood disposed in front of the front window panel, and a hood garnish disposed on the front hood. The hood garnish is disposed over an upper surface of the front hood at an interval and extended along a rear end of the front hood in a vehicle width direction. The washer nozzle device is positioned between the upper surface of the front hood and a lower surface of the hood garnish.

Vehicular washer nozzle device mount structure

A flexible tube includes a bellows tube, an interlock tube placed inside the bellows tube, and upstream-side and downstream-side joint pipes coupled to opposite ends of the bellows tube. Diameters of fixing end portions located at opposite ends of the interlock tube are made larger than a diameter at a middle portion of the interlock tube, extension portions of the upstream-side and downstream-side joint pipes are fitted and fixed to inner peripheral surfaces of the fixing end portions of the interlock tube, and a depth of each of valley portions of a bellows portion of the bellows tube located over the fixing end portions is smaller than a depth of other valley portions of the bellows portion. Accordingly, it is possible to achieve the downsizing of the flexible tube that is connected to an exhaust system being continuous with an engine to dampen vibrations in the axial direction of the exhaust system.

Flexible vibration absorbing tube

An exhaust manifoldextending downwardly is connected to a rear side of a transversely disposed engine E. A primary exhaust pipe portionis connected to the exhaust manifoldvia a spherical jointprovided close to the engine E. Furthermore, a secondary exhaust pipe portionis connected to the primary exhaust pipe portion. In the primary exhaust pipe portion, a flexible tubeis disposed at a position upstream of a support portion to the vehicle body.

Vibration absorbing apparatus for exhaust system of engine

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Saitama, Japan

Masahiko Higuchi