Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Tadashi Sugano

Hitoshi Suzuki

Seiji Hanafusa

Tomoyasu Motojima

Yuji Tsujimoto

Kazsuyuki Nishima

Takayuki Mori

Noriyuki Ogisu

Kazuya Shindome

A rear fender mounting structure includes features for simplifying the assembly of a rear fender, sub-frame, and grab rails to a rear frame of a motorcycle. The sub-frame has brackets welded onto it. The brackets include holes with protruding collars defining the holes. The rear fender has holes lined with rubber bushings. The protruding collars are fitted into the rubber bushings. The rear fender includes a bracket which is hooked over a crossbar of the motorcycle frame. The fender is then lifted from its rear end, by pivoting the bracket about the crossbar. When alignment occurs between the bracket holes and holes in the rear frame, linkage plates with bolts extending therefrom, are employed. The bolts are passed through the aligned holes. Next, holes in the grab rails can be easily aligned with the ends of the bolts. Nuts are used to secure the arrangement. The backrest mounting structure includes features for dampening vibrations in the backrest, and for improving the appearance of the motorcycle by placing the attachment of the backrest inside the grab rails. Upper and lower rubber members sandwich lower portions of the backrest supporting members. The lower portions of the backrest supporting members are tilted 45 degrees relative to horizontal and are located inside the grab rails.

Structure and method for mounting a motorcycle fender and backrest

Exhaust apparatus of vehicles

In a gear arrangement consisting of two gears meshed with each other, at least one gear is constructed of a teeth portion having teeth along its circumference and a shaft portion adapted to be mounted to a support shaft, a gap space is retained between the teeth portion and the shaft portion, and an elastic body such as an O-ring, an annular spring, etc. is interposed in the gap space. And a tooth thickness of one gear of the above-mentioned two gears is made larger than that of the other gear. When the above-described two gears are meshed with each other, the teeth portion of the gear having the elastic body interposed therein moves in the radial direction with respect to the shaft portion, and thereby the teeth of the respective gears can be meshed without backlash.

Gear arrangement

Growing community of inventors

Saitama, Japan

Tadashi Sugano