Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Masashi Fukuuchi

Yoshihiko Orihashi

Atsushi Eto

Ryosuke Masuike

Tamotsu Hatada

Keishi Fukumoto

Jun Takagi

Takuma Nozaki

Shoji Idei

Koichi Egami

Yuji Ohshita

Takashi Fukami

The present invention provides a utility vehicle including fuel system components located compactly. The utility vehicle includes a single or a plurality of seat rows, a cargo bed, a cabin, and an engine. The utility vehicle further includes a fuel tank accommodated in a lower space of one of the seat rows, a fuel system mounting bracket provided next to the fuel tank in the lower space and fixed to a seat frame, and a fuel feed pump and a single or a plurality of fuel system accessories mounted to the fuel system mounting bracket.

Utility vehicle

An exhaust device of a vehicle having a V-engine including a front cylinder and a rear cylinder, includes at least one muffler disposed in a rear part of the vehicle, a front-cylinder exhaust pipe which is connected to a front surface of the front cylinder and which reaches the muffler, and a rear-cylinder exhaust pipe which is connected to a rear surface of the rear cylinder and which reaches the muffler. The front-cylinder exhaust pipe is curved rearward at a curved portion from a connecting portion between the front-cylinder exhaust pipe and the front cylinder inward of the side frame in the lateral direction. The front-cylinder exhaust pipe is located outward in the lateral direction with a fixed space from the engine, and extends toward a rear part of the vehicle substantially along the side frame as viewed from above.

Exhaust device of vehicle and straddle-type four-wheeled vehicle provided with the same

A muffler mounting structure of a vehicle, particularly a straddle-type four-wheeled vehicle. The muffler mounting structure is provided with a muffler, at least one muffler mounting portion provided in a body frame and having a mounting hole, and at least one mounted bracket provided in an upper part of the muffler and disposed on an upper surface of the muffler mounting portion. The mounted bracket having a fixing member insertion hole passing in the up and down direction, and at least one fixing member inserted into the fixing member insertion hole from the upper side and fixed to the mounting hole.

Muffler mounting structure of vehicle and straddle-type four-wheeled vehicle provided with the same

An exhaust device in which a portion of an exhaust pipe covered by an exhaust pipe cover is rationalized. An exhaust device of a vehicle includes a muffler disposed in a rear part of the vehicle, an exhaust pipe extending from a front surface of a cylinder of an engine to the muffler while passing along an outer side of the engine in a lateral direction, a first exhaust pipe cover covering an entire periphery of an exhaust pipe front portion located near the outer side of the engine in the lateral direction, and a second exhaust pipe cover covering an outer side of an exhaust pipe rear portion located behind the engine.

A combustion engine includes an cylinder block having a combustion chamber formed therein, a throttle body forming a part of an air intake passage for introducing an air therethrough into the combustion chamber, a throttle valve accommodated in the throttle body for adjusting a cross section of the air intake passage, and an electrically driven throttle device having an actuator for driving the throttle valve. At least a portion of the throttle body is positioned intermediate between the actuator and the cylinder block.

Combustion engine and vehicle equipped with such engine

To provide an air intake system for a vehicle, so simple in structure as to reduce the cost and effective to increase the ram pressure, a front cowling () is mounted on a front portion of a vehicle body structure (). This front cowling () has left and right headlight windows (and) aligned with left and right headlights (and), respectively, and also has an air intake opening () defined therein at a location above the headlight windows (and) for introducing an external combustion air (A) towards the vehicle engine (E). An intake air passage () is provided for introducing the combustion air (A), then entering the air intake opening (), towards an air cleaner () by way of opposite lateral portions of a head tube ().

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Kobe, Japan

Masashi Fukuuchi