Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toru Iwadate

Yuichiro Tsuruta

Yoshiaki Noda

Taeko Togawa

Kenji Kawaguchi

Satoshi Honda

Yusuke Funayose

Masao Ogawa

Tomokazu Sakamoto

Masayuki Toriyama

Takeshi Yanagisawa

Eiji Hosoya

Yoshinobu Itani

Takaaki Fujii

Sadashi Yamamoto

Toshinari Mohara

Kouichi Sugioka

Masahide Yokoo

Hiroyuki Nakajima

Osamu Yasunaga

Yuichi Morino

Seiichi Nishihira

Takamasa Omino

Sigelu Tazima

An air cleaner box structured to facilitate the attaching and detaching operation of an air cleaner element While enhancing the support rigidity thereof. The air cleaner box includes a casing having a case body and the openable and closable case cover. The air cleaner element and the element holder to support the air cleaner element are contained in the casing. The element holder has an extended U-shape in cross section, and has end sections that are supported by the case body and the case cover respectively. The element holder pivots on the bottom face rear ends of the holder lower protrusions in an inclinable manner.

Structure of air cleaner box

A saddle-ride type vehicle eliminates the input of disturbances to a throttle body upon opening/closing of a vehicle seat, and is capable of reliably protecting an injector. An air cleaneris disposed on the rear side of an enginea fuel tankis disposed above the engineand a seatis disposed on the rear side of the fuel tanksuch that the seatcan be opened or closed. A throttle bodyhaving an injectoris disposed in a space below the seatand between the engineand the air cleanerA protector covercovers the throttle bodyfrom the upper side.

Saddle-ride type vehicle

A lean detector for a vehicle is capable of reducing the cost of the parts of a lean sensor and enhancing the waterproof property thereof. The lean detector also detects when the leaning of the vehicle body has reached a prescribed angle in the right, left, front or rear direction. The lean sensor is installed at a position above a bottom end of a baseplate of the seat of a saddle-ride type four-wheeled vehicle.

Lean detector of vehicle

A saddle-ride type vehicle provided with an air cleaner at the rear side of an engine and a fuel tank at the upper side of the engine, and a heat shield panel disposed between the fuel tank and the engine. A fuel feed pipe, one end of which is connected to a fuel pump located at the front side of the engine, extends toward the upper part of the heat shield panel and is routed on the upper side of the heat shield panel and connected to an injector which forms a fuel intake. This improves the degree of freedom in the design around an engine and facilitates the layout of a fuel feed pipe that connects a fuel pump to a fuel intake at the front and rear of the engine so that the fuel feed pipe is hardly affected by the heat of the engine.

An engine stopping/starting control unit having improved accelerating performance. A charging limiting device is provided which limits the charge provided to a generator when the vehicle is stopped. The decreased charging allows for better performance when the vehicle accelerates from a stopped states. Also, the vehicle headlight can be dimmed while the vehicle is stopped, which reduces the load on the generator. An acceleration detector detects when the vehicle accelerates during running, and can decrease the generator load in response to the acceleration.

Vehicle including engine stopping/starting control unit

A battery cooling system which cools a plurality of battery units uniformly. The cooling system is provided in an electric vehicle with a longitudinal, hollow main frame provided with a plurality of branching ducts branching from the main frame to distribute cooling air to the battery units, a plurality of battery units arranged along the main frame, and a cooling fan connected to one end of the main frame. The flow passage area of the branch duct at a distal position with respect to an air flow inlet of the cooling air is smaller than those of the other branch ducts.

Battery unit cooling system for an electric vehicle

A vehicle power transmission apparatus is provided for maintaining a constant power output when driving a vehicle regardless of the change in the frictional force of the belt in a belt type stepless speed change device. A belt type stepless speed change device is used with a vehicle driving, prime motor on board a vehicle. The apparatus provides a flat characteristic segment covering at least a part of the power output characteristic relative to the revolutions of the vehicle driving prime motor. The apparatus allows the vehicle to be driven by a constant power output within the segment of the flat power output characteristic regardless of changes in the frictional force of the belt in the belt type stepless speed change device.

Vehicle power transmission apparatus

A four-wheel buggy with a riding saddle seat includes a vehicle frame, a pair of front wheels and a pair of rear wheels rotatably suspended from the vehicle frame and projecting laterally from the vehicle frame. An air-cooled engine is mounted on the vehicle frame substantially centrally in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle frame. The four-wheel buggy also includes a pair of foot steps, a driver's seat mounted on an upper portion of the vehicle frame and supported by the vehicle frame, a handlebar operatively connected to the vehicle frame for steering the front wheels, and a body cover attached to the vehicle frame. The four-wheel buggy further includes a cooling fan unit mounted on the vehicle frame and including a fan and a drive unit for rotating the fan, and a control system for controlling the drive unit. The cooling fan unit is disposed in front of the engine for directing air from the cooling fan unit toward the engine. The four-wheel buggy has sufficient engine cooling performance while it runs at low speeds.

Four-wheel motor vehicle with riding saddle seat

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Saitama, Japan

Toru Iwadate