Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Mtec Co., Ltd.

Takafumi Irie

Kinya Mizuno

Naoki Kuwabara

Satoshi Matsushima

Kenji Kofuji

Makoto Mitsukawa

Katsumasa Mukai

Masaya Murao

Toshitaka Akita

Kunio Yoshimi

Yoshiki Kasaya

Shinichiro Nakazawa

Kazuma Deguchi

Tomoyasu Motojima

Kazuho Nakai

Masayoshi Hori

An electric bicycle includes a motor that includes a stator and a rotor and that is driven by a battery, a reduction gear, an output shaft configured to output power of the motor, a sprocket fixed to the output shaft, a housing, and a water jacket configured to cool the motor. The water jacket includes a flange section protruding outward in a radial direction of the stator, the flange section being formed in the water jacket at a side opposite to the reduction gear in a vehicle width direction.

Saddle-type electric vehicle

A swing arm structure includes pivot shafts extending in a vehicle width direction and disposed in a vehicle body frame, a pair of wall portions disposed in the vehicle width direction in the vehicle body frame, and an interposed portion disposed between the wall portions in a swing arm. The wall portions have wall portion-side pass-through portions, which receive the pivot shafts passed therethrough. The interposed portion has interposed portion-side pass-through portions formed therein at, out of both end portions in the vehicle width direction, portions facing the wall portion-side pass-through portions. The interposed portion-side pass-through portions receive the pivot shafts passed therethrough. The interposed portion has a non-pass-through portion formed therein at a middle portion in the vehicle width direction of the interposed portion. The non-pass-through portion does not receive the pivot shafts.

Swing arm structure for saddle riding type vehicle

A saddle-type electric vehicle is provided with a drive battery and an effectively placed motor unit. The drive battery is mounted directly under a main frame section of a vehicle frame, and the motor unit is fixedly supported to the vehicle frame. The motor unit includes a motor body disposed below a pivot connection of a rear swing arm, and at least a part of the motor body is disposed rearwardly of the pivot connection.

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Wako, Japan

Takafumi Irie