Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Noriyasu Matsuhashi

Hiroshi Murakami

Michio Nakamura

Junji Otani

Kiyoshi Fukuchi

Minoru Tsunoda

Yuuji Matsui

A motorcycle is provided with first and a second fuel tanks. These tanks are provided with fuel charging ports respectively. Both the fuel tanks are intercommunicated through a communicating pipe. Since the communicating pipe can be shut by a cock, fuel can be charged into both the tanks promptly through both the fuel charging ports. The communicating pipe is provided with a fuel pump actuated by a diaphragm communicated with an intake manifold of an engine. Accordingly, even if one of the fuel tanks is disposed at a location lower than the carburetor, fuel within the fuel tank can be fed to the carburetor via the other fuel tank. The first and the second fuel tanks may be combined to constitute a single fuel tank.

Fuel tank and fuel feed system for a motorcycle

A tubular inlet for a fuel tank includes a transverse baffle having an opening sized to receive a fuel nozzle of a determined diameter, and apertures located laterally of said opening and which permit viewing of the tank interior when a nozzle is inserted into the said opening, the structure optionally including a movable shutter which is resilient biased to a position in which it closes said opening, the shutter being movable by said nozzle against said bias.

Inlet for a fuel tank

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Sakado, Japan

Noriyasu Matsuhashi