Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Masaki Watanabe

Akio Yagasaki

Goroei Wakatsuki

Sadashi Yamamoto

Hitoshi Yamamoto

Yoshinori Kawashima

Keiji Suzuki

Hiroshi Shimoyama

Yoshinori Matsuoka

Hiroaki Kayama

Kunihiko Tanaka

Seishi Miura

Tadanori Horiuchi

Shinichi Koizumi

Katsuharu Kinoshita

Kazuto Chisaka

Isamu Gotoh

Masakazu Matsuzawa

Takehisa Hirano

Nobuhiro Shido

Toru Murayama

Kazuya Yonekura

Shigeo Matsumoto

A tiltable tricycle comprises a body frame, a single front wheel steerably supported on a front portion of the body frame, a power unit mounted on a rear portion of the body frame and including at least an engine, a joint case connected to the power unit for vertical angular movement, a rear axle support case connected to the joint case for lateral rolling movement, a rear axle assembly rotatably supported on the rear axle support case, a pair of rear wheels coupled to the rear axle assembly, respectively, and a shock absorber disposed between the body frame and the joint case.

Tiltable tricycle

A six-wheeled motor vehicle has a pair of front wheels, a pair of middle wheels and a pair of rear wheels. These six wheels are supported on a frame and driven by an engine. The vehicle has the arrangement in which the engine is disposed between the axles of the middle wheel and the rear wheel, or, in a second embodiment, between the axles of the front wheel and the middle wheel. A footrest is disposed between the front wheel and the middle wheel in the first embodiment, and between the middle wheel and the rear wheel in the second embodiment. Due to this arrangement, the load on each wheel is substantially equalized with each other.

Six-wheeled motor vehicle

A light motor vehicle comprising a wind shield disposed in front of a driver's seat, a roof stay standing behind the driver's seat, a set of fittings for defining a cabin, the fittings including a roof member attachable to and detachable from between the upper end of the wind shield and the upper end of the roof stay, and an accommodation space for accommodating the fittings.

Light motor vehicles

An all-wheel-drive vehicle having front and rear pairs of wheels drivable by power from an engine and vertically movably suspended from a vehicle body. The vehicle includes a power transmitting mechanism for transmitting the power from an engine output of the engine to one of the axles for the front and rear wheels, a power output unit mounted on said one of the axles, and a power transmission shaft for transmitting the power from the power output unit to the other of the axles of the front and rear wheels. The front and rear wheels are steerable simultaneously by linkage connected therebetween.

All wheel drive vehicle

A windshield for a two-wheeled motor vehicle, or the like, having a predetermined shape formed from a resin, at least a portion of the windshield carrying a hard coated layer thereon. The hard coated layer has a varying thickness. The windshield is manufactured by forming a hard coated layer on a windshield base molded from a resin and having a predetermined shape by dipping the base in a coating solution, and then withdrawing the base from the solution at a varying speed. Spray coating may also be used.

Method of manufacturing a windshield having a coating of varying

An all-wheel-steerable vehicle has two front wheels, two rear wheels, and a steering system for steering the front and rear wheels in interlinked relation. The front and rear wheels are steered in the opposite directions to each other, and the steering angle of the front wheels is greater than the steering angle of the rear wheels. The vehicle thereby gives the driver a favorable drive feeling while obtaining a small radius of turning movement of the vehicle.

All-wheel-steerable vehicle

An automatic adjusting device which is disposed midway of a control wire connecting an actuating mechanism such as a brake and an operating lever. The automatic adjusting device automatically compensates not only the internal wear of the actuating mechanism but also the extension of the control wire so that it can always take up any excessive play or slack of the control wire to thereby impart to the operating lever a minimum play, which corresponds to the proper ineffective stroke of the actuating mechanism.

Automatic adjusting device for actuating mechanism and its control wire

A vehicle having a pair of transversely spaced apart wheels, and a driving unit disposed between such wheels; at least the heat generating parts of the driving unit, such as an engine cylinder, being confined within an area defined by and between the contour of such wheels in profile. With such arrangement, protection of the driving unit, compact construction thereof, and effective utilization of the dead space in the vehicle can be attained.

Motor vehicles

A windshield assembly for motorcycles. A wiper motor is disposed in a lower position inside a windshield member which extends upwardly from a fairing member, and a wiper switch is mounted on an ornamental panel member which is disposed over the motor, and further a wiper arm is coupled to the motor. These windshield components are integrally assembled together in advance, and the assembled body is mounted to a vehicle body through a mounting stay. Reduction in weight, ensuring of the operating accuracy, improvement of the external appearance and decrease of the mounting time is attained.

Windshield assembly for motorcycles

A vehicular brake operating system which comprises a wheel brake, an operating member, a control wire connecting the wheel brake and the operating member and including an outer wire and an inner wire fitted in the former, and an adjusting device disposed midway of the control wire for automatically adjusting a play of the operating member to a proper level in response to the operation of the control wire.

Vehicular brake operating system

A drive unit for a vehicle having two juxtaposed drive wheels comprises an engine, an axle for supporting on its ends the drive wheels, a final output gear operatively coupled with the engine and mounted on the axle adjacent to one of the drive wheels, and a power transmitting assembly mounted on the axle adjacent to the other drive wheel, the engine being located between the final output gear and the power transmitting assembly. A crankshaft extends parallel to the axle and supports on one end a flywheel for a generator and on the other end a clutch including a speed changing device. The drive unit is unitized, compact in size, simple in structure, and requires a minimum number of parts.

Vehicle drive unit

A wiper device capable of increasing urging force of a wiper blade against a windshield of a vehicle during wiping operation and decreasing urging force of the wiper blade during out of service thereof and resting the blade at its resting zone of the windshield. The wiper device comprises the wiper blade, a wiper arm having one end pivotably supporting the wiper blade, a drive means for providing swinging movement of the wiper arm, at least one biasing spring having one end connected to the wiper arm and a movable unit adapted to change biasing force of the spring, the spring having the other end connected to the movable unit. The wiper arm has the other end pivotally connected to a wiper head coupled to a wiper shaft driven by a drive means.

Wiper device

A drive unit mounting structure for a three-wheeled vehicle which has a rear fork pivotably connected to a vehicle body and supporting thereon a drive unit. In order to suppress hopping movements of the vehicle, front and rear portions of the drive unit are pivotably mounted by front and rear link members on the rear fork. The front link member has a longitudinal axis extending obliquely, when viewed in side elevation, toward a point where a pair of rear wheels drivably coupled to the drive unit contacts the ground. The front and rear link members include rubber mounts for dampening vibrations of the drive unit in operation.

Drive unit mounting structure

A parking apparatus for a three-wheeled motorized vehicle having one front wheel, two rear wheels, and a front body portion which is transversely swingable relative to a rear body portion. The apparatus comprises a locking mechanism provided between the front and rear vehicle body portions for disabling the front body portion from swinging, a parking brake mechanism operatively cooperating with a normal wheel brake, or alternatively being independent thereof, and a common operating member for operating both the locking and parking brake mechanisms simultaneously.

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Urawa, Japan

Masaki Watanabe