Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoji Onishi

Tomoyuki Takahashi

Kenichi Furuhashi

Kazuhiro Maeda

Yoshinori Tsumiyama

Hideyoshi Kosuge

Hidetoshi Kaku

Tyler Furman

Satoru Watabe

Hirokazu Morita

Mitsuhiro Yazaki

Kazuma Waida

Hiroyuki Kikuchi

Naoki Kawamura

Naohisa Masuda

Kenji Oda

Hidehiko Yamamoto

Naoki Yokoyama

Naoto Nakagawa

Hiroyuki Iwai

Takao Hamano

Toshinori Oki

Geoffrey Ewing

Hiroyuki Kishi

Yui Nishizaki

Eiji Sakurada

Tatsunori Shimizu

Michael John Boyle

Takeshi Orio

Tokishin Nishinaka

A pick-up style utility vehicle according to the present invention has a front seat, a rear seat, a cargo bed expandable in a front direction, and a screen shield arranged at a front end of the cargo bed. The cargo bed has at least a stationary bottom plate, right and left stationary side panels, a front panel, expandable side panels, and an expandable bottom plate and can be changed between an expanded state in which the cargo bed is expanded in a front direction to a rear portion riding space and a non-expanded state not occupying the space. Each of the expandable side panels and the screen shield are supported by a vehicle body configuring portion so as to be integrally shifted between an expanded position and a non-expanded position.

Pick-up style utility vehicle with expandable cargo bed

A vehicle includes a front seat and a rear seat that is changeable between an installed state in which the passenger can be seated and a retracted state in which the passenger is not seated and the rear seat is retracted. The vehicle includes an output control unit controlling the output of an engine, and a detection device for detecting the installed state of the rear seat. When the detection device detects the installed state of the rear seat, the output control unit regulates the output of the engine as compared with the output when the detection device does not detect the installed state of the rear seat.

Vehicle with engine output control

A theft prevention apparatus of a leisure vehicle equipped with a rider's seat which opens outside is disclosed. The theft prevention apparatus typically includes a portable transmitter configured to transmit a user identification code by radio at predetermined intervals during travel of the vehicle, a vehicle receiver mounted in the vehicle and configured to receive the user identification code which is transmitted by radio from the portable transmitter, a controller coupled to the vehicle receiver through a signal line or by radio, and an alarm device mounted in the vehicle and configured to indicate an alarm to inform the rider that the portable transmitter has been lost, wherein the controller is configured to determine whether or not the vehicle receiver has received the user identification code transmitted from the transmitter within a predetermined time during travel of the vehicle, and to execute control to cause the alarm device to indicate the alarm when the controller determines that the receiver does not receive the user identification code within the predetermined time.

Theft prevention apparatus of leisure vehicle

A theft prevention apparatus of a leisure vehicle including a portable device configured to transmit a user identification code by radio, a communication device that is equipped in the leisure vehicle and is configured to receive the user identification code, an electric power supply loaded in the leisure vehicle, a hand-operated switch that is disposed on a power line coupling the electric power supply to the communication device and is configured to turn to an on-state or an off-state to or not to permit the electric power to be supplied from the electric power supply to the communication device; and a controller configured to determine whether or not the user identification code received from the communication device matches the correct user identification code and to enable the leisure vehicle to be steered when it is determined that the received user identification code matches the correct user identification code.

A motorcycle exhaust system includes a catalytic converter () disposed within an exhaust passage () for discharging exhaust gas (G) from a multi-cylinder combustion engine (E) and operable to purify the exhaust gas (G). An upstream end of the catalytic converter () has different regions (Sand S) communicated with upstream exhaust passage portions (and), respectively, and a downstream end of the catalytic converter () is communicated with downstream exhaust passage portions (and) in a number equal to or smaller than the number of the upstream exhaust passage portions (and). Also, the catalytic converter () has a partition wall () extending in a direction of flow of the exhaust gas (G) for allowing the exhaust gas (G) from the upstream exhaust passage portions (and) to flow through the catalytic converter () without being mixed together.

Motorcycle exhaust system

A motorcycle is disclosed with an air intake chamber having a fresh air suction port (that is, an opening through which fresh air is initially sucked into the air intake system) which is connected to the upstream side of an air cleaner and goes in a concavity formed under a fuel tank and is provided at a position across a main frame of the body.

Motorcycle

An engine mounting device for a motorcycle including a plurality of support rods connected to a motorcycle body in a manner to extend crosswise therethrough, a plurality of bushes each fitted over one of the support rods and a plurality of cylindrical vibration absorbing rubber members each fitted over one of the bushes and fitted in one of mounting bores formed in an engine body. The engine mounting device further includes a plurality of spacers of a thickness smaller than the thickness of the vibration absorbing rubber members, each spacer being mounted between an outer peripheral surface of one of the bushes and an inner peripheral surface of one of the mounting bores at least in a portion in which the vibration absorbing rubber member is most compressed when the engine body is pulled rearwardly of the motorcycle body. The engine mounting device has particular utility with a motorcycle including a serrated belt or a chain mounted over a drive sprocket wheel mounted on one side of an engine and a follower sprocket wheel mounted on a shaft of a rear wheel.

Engine mounting device for motorcycle

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Kobe, Japan

Yoji Onishi