Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Yuasa Battery Co., Ltd.

Honda Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Michio Yashima

Akihiro Komatsu

Shuji Takahashi

Masami Takanashi

Masashi Hirose

Shuuji Takahashi

Norimitsu Kurihara

Toshihiro Isoi

Takaya Senzaki

Shigeru Iwai

Masao Nakazawa

Kengo Nakayama

A motorcycle equipped with an enclosed battery having a closed structure, is characterized by installing the enclosed battery in a manner that a side face of a battery case makes an angle with a vertical direction of a body frame of the motorcycle. With this arrangement of the enclosed battery, it becomes possible to reduce the space for housing the battery or to utilize a so-called dead space, thereby reducing the size or the width of a body frame and improving the functional structure of the motorcycle.

Motorcycle with an enclosed battery mounted to have a predetermined

A sealed lead acid battery being equipped with a venting valve discharging inner gas to an outside of battery in the event that an inner gas pressure in the battery reaches a prescribed value, a valve opening pressure being set to 0.2-0.4 kg/cm.sup.2, an enforceable pressure of positive and negative plate groups being set to 35-60 kg/dm.sup.2, polypropylene with filler being used for a material of container, and a side wall thickness of the container being set to 2-4 mm.

Sealed lead acid battery

A switch assembly for an electric system for a motor vehicle such as a motorcycle including an ignition circuit and a starting motor circuit. A first switching member is disposed in the ignition circuit for controlling an operation of a ignition system. A second switching member is disposed in the starting motor circuit, for controlling a current for a starting motor. An interrelating member is provided between the first and second switching members so that the first switching member is necessarily switched to a switch position for actuating the ignition system when the second switching member is operated to actuate the starting motor.

Switch assembly for a motor vehicle

An electrolyte container for simultaneously filling electrolyte into the individual cells of a multi-cell dry-charged storage battery comprising a shell body having a plurality of spaced cell units, corresponding in number to the battery to be filled and each containing the quantity of electrolyte required to fill the corresponding battery cell, each container cell unit including a flow regulator, a sealed tip and a cutting line between the tip and flow regulator for cutting and removing the tip when the container is to be used to fill the cells of a dry-charged battery.

Electrolyte container for battery and method of filling electrolyte

A handle switch assembly for a motor vehicle having a bar-like handle member with a handle grip, on which the switch assembly is mounted, comprises a pair of elongated members to be combined with each other to form the bar-like handle, and respectively provided with a bent portion to form a cavity portion and switch elements disposed in the cavity portion. Push buttons or switch knobs for the switch elements are disposed in a control section which is provided at the cavity portion of the elongated members so as to be on or behind an imaginary plane which includes a rear end of a cylindrical surface of the handle grip, whereby to provide an easy access to the push buttons or switch knobs.

Handle switch assembly for a motor vehicle

A handle switch assembly is arranged on the steering handle in the vicinity of a handle grip, and includes at least one switch comprising a plurality of first push buttons arranged on a surface of the switch housing, and a second push button arranged in a manner independent and separate from the first push buttons. Each of the first push buttons, when pushed, causes the switch to turn on and holds same in the on-state, while the second push button, when pushed, releases the switch from its on-state. The first push buttons are juxtaposed axially of the handle grip, and the second push button is spaced in a predetermined circumferential direction from a line connecting between side edges of the first push buttons facing in the same predetermined circumferential direction.

Handle switch assembly for motorcycles

A warning system for automotive vehicles of a construction, wherein a plurality of abnormality detectors are disposed at various locations in the vehicle so that any possible abnormality to occur may be detected, a plurality of abnormality indicators are connected to the abnormality detectors so as to be instantaneously actuated as soon as detection signals are received from the abnormality detectors and to thereby indicate abnormal situation taking place at any part of the vehicle; a plurality of action indicators are connected to the abnormality indicators to warn the driver of the action to be taken depending on the degree of the abnormal situation, and a preferential circuit is disposed in a connecting circuit between the abnormality detectors and the plurality of action indicators so as to preferentially introduce a detection signal of the highest emergency into the action indicator corresponding to such detection signal.

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Kawagoe, Japan

Michio Yashima