Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Susumu Michisaka

Masao Ogawa

Tomokatsu Suda

Kengo Yano

Hideki Hayashi

Yusuke Inoue

Fujio Nakamura

Hiroyasu Ota

Fuminori Kamemizu

Satoru Ikami

Nobuo Yamaguchi

Jun Fujii

Noriya Shimozato

Yu Miyajima

Shohei Takiguchi

Yuichiro Morikawa

Hiroshi Kitamoto

Toshiharu Tomomatsu

Yasuyuki Maeda

Shin Nakai

An inner rack structure for a saddle-ride type vehicle which can easily form an inner rack with a distinctive outward appearance. An inner rack opening that opens upwardly is provided in an upper cover, and an inner rack body portion formed to bulge in a forward direction is provided in the upper portion of a lower cover. The inner rack opening is covered from below and the front by the inner rack body portion, and the inner rack body portion is covered from a rear direction by a lower-side rear wall portion that extends downwardly from the inner rack opening of the upper cover, thereby forming an inner rack serving as a storage portion.

Inner rack structure for saddle-ride type vehicle

An engine suspension device for a motorcycle can be increased in design flexibility and weight. An engine suspension device for a motorcycle has a suspension link provided between a body frame and an engine for pivotably supporting the engine. The suspension link includes a link body. Two pairs of right and left cylindrical members are provided at opposite ends of the link body and are connected to the body frame and the engine, respectively. The pairs of right and left cylindrical members are spaced apart from each other in the lateral direction of the motorcycle. The suspension link further includes a right connecting member for connecting the right cylindrical members and a left connecting member for connecting the left connecting members. The right and left connecting members are connected to each other by the link body.

Engine suspension device for motorcycle

To provide a rear shock absorber arrangement structure for a motorcycle having no limitation on the arrangement flexibility and shape of a storage chamber. In a rear shock absorber arrangement structure for a motorcycle, including a unit swing type power unit U swingably connected to a body frame F and rotatably supporting a rear wheel WR, a rear shock absorber suspends the power unit from the body frame F. A storage chamber is disposed above the rear wheel WR. A lower end of the rear shock absorber is brought into connection at a position lower than the wheel-axle O provided in the power unit U as viewed from the side of the vehicle. An upper end of the rear shock absorber is connected to a portion lower than the storage chamber and near a bottom portion of the storage chamber.

Rear shock absorber arrangement structure for motorcycle

To provide a key cylinder device equipped with a handle lock mechanism which can maintain a handle lock mechanism of a key cylinder unit with a shutter to provide an improved assembleability of the key cylinder device. The bolts for fixing a shutter housing are attached from the back surface of the top plate of an inverted angular U-shaped bracket. Thus, even when a gap is generated between the shutter housing and a vehicle body cover, the bolts are not exposed and hence cannot be easily loosened. In addition, by mounting the key cylinder device in the vehicle body cover and then mounting the vehicle body cover thereon, assembleability can be improved.

Vehicle provided with key cylinder device equipped with handle lock mechanism

A scooter-type vehicle capable of accommodating articles in a legshield covering from the rear side a head pipe, steerably supporting a front wheel and a steering handle, to accommodate articles by effectively using a space of the legshield.

Article storage structure for scooter-type vehicle

A load receiving pipe extends from a separate frame and has a closed portion at the extremity thereof. A meter unit is disposed immediately behind the closed portion. Accordingly, the meter unit can be accommodated in a limited space in front of a handle post cover and behind the load receiving pipe, and the probability that a load on the load receiving pipe comes into contact with the meter unit can be avoided. Therefore, the appearance of the front portion of a vehicle body can be improved while improving the load receiving capacity at the front of the vehicle body.

Front structure of motorcycle

A frame assembly for a motorized vehicle includes a vehicle body frame with an upper frame, a lower basket frame integrally attached to and extending downwardly from the upper frame, and an auxiliary frame which is separate from and operatively attached to the vehicle body frame. The upper frame includes a head pipe, a tubular main frame section attached to the head pipe, a pair of seat rails extending rearwardly in a divergent fashion from the main frame section, and a rear crossbar interconnecting the seat rails at rear portions thereof. The lower basket frame comprises left and right down tubes extending downwardly in a divergent fashion from the head pipe, a pair of left and right lower pipes extending rearwardly from lower ends of the respective down tubes, and a pair of medial frame sections extending between rear ends of the lower pipes and the seat rails. The auxiliary frame has a width substantially equal to a distance between the left and right lower pipes.

Motorized vehicle, and related frame structure

An air cleaner device is provided for a scooter-type vehicle which can prevent foreign substances from entering an air intake port of an air cleaner even when the air cleaner is arranged at a position out of protection of the vehicle body cover. An air intake port cover covers the air intake port of the air cleaner and also covers a cooling air suction port of the power unit. The leakage of suction sound from the cooling air suction port can be prevented simultaneously.

Air cleaner apparatus for scooter-type vehicle

A motorcycle having a loading space for stably loading luggage. Luggage may be loaded onto a rear loading space with the luggage being fixed by fastening a rope to a grab rail. A seat back is provided that also functions as a passenger seat. When only one person rides, luggage can be loaded onto the rear space and can be fastened by hanging the luggage on a hook directly or indirectly using the rope. As the hook disappears when a seat back that also functions as a passenger seat is positioned to be substantially horizontal, the appearance quality is not damaged. Therefore, luggage can be stably loaded and a larger quantity of luggage can be carried by the motorcycle. Left and right slider are provided for permitting free longitudinal movement of the seat from a substantially horizontal position to a raised position.

Motorcycle seat structure

In a vehicle wherein a functional part arranged in a body cover is supported by a body frame and a lid which makes it possible to lock a closed state covering the functional part can be openably fitted to the body cover in a position matching the functional part. Thus, the risk of undesirable tampering with the unlocking member is to be minimized and the risk for the unlocking member to be influenced by external disturbance such as unfavorable weather is to be avoided as far as possible. A cover member in which a lid is arranged in a secluded position is openably disposed on a body cover, and an unlocking member for releasing the lid from the locked state is disposed on the body cover so as to be covered by a cover member in a closed state.

Unlocking member arranging structure for vehicles

A scooter type vehicle such as a motorcycle includes a fuel tank disposed between a pair of left and right side frames extending in the fore-and-aft direction. The fuel tank is covered by an undercover on its under side and by a footrest plate on its upper side. The undercover is inserted between the left and right side frames from above. Edges of the undercover are placed on the left and right side frames, and the fuel tank is stored in a storage recess on the undercover from above. Edges of the fuel tank are placed on the edges of the undercover, and the footrest plate is placed on the edges of the fuel tank. The left and right side frames can then support the undercover, the fuel tank, and the footrest plate with the present invention.

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Saitama, Japan

Susumu Michisaka