Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Yoshiki Takahashi

Toru Takenaka

Hiroshi Gomi

Kazushi Akimoto

Takashi Kudo

Makoto Araki

Yukinori Kurakawa

Hiroyuki Makita

Futoshi Miyakawa

Yusuke Yamamoto

A final gear box accommodates a pinion gear and a bevel gear in a rotatable manner and contains an oil. A recess is provided at a downstream end of a drive shaft. The recess and the upstream end of the pinion gear shaft portion are splined coupled with each other so that the drive shaft and the pinion gear can be rotated together and relatively moved in an axial direction. A space permitting relative movement between the drive shaft and the pinion gear is provided between the pinion gear and the recess. The pinion gear is provided with a hollow portion which pierces the pinion gear in the axial direction and conducts oil to the space portion.

Shaft drive type vehicle

A mobile vehicleA includes a front-wheel support mechanismhaving a trail adjustment mechanism, a steering actuatorwhich generates a steering force for steering a front wheel, a trail adjustment actuatorwhich generates a driving force for changing a trail of the front wheel, and a control device. The control devicehas a function of controlling the steering actuatorso as to stabilize the posture of a vehicle body, and a function of controlling the trail adjustment actuatorin accordance with an observed value of the vehicle speed.

Mobile vehicle

A driver seat is disposed at a position offset by a predetermined distance to the left from a vehicle width center line and an ingress-egress opening through which a driver gets on and off the vehicle is provided on a lateral side of the driver seat. A door is attached to a left upper frame via a door hinge and the ingress-egress opening is opened and closed by using the door. A parking brake lever is disposed near the left upper frame and the door hinge is provided on the same left upper frame. Since the door hinge and the parking brake lever are disposed close to each other, there is no possibility of the parking brake lever hindering ingress and egress.

Vehicle with parking brake lever

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Wako, Japan

Yoshiki Takahashi