Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshitaka Kato

Kazuhiro Iwai

Shinji Takayanagi

Akito Enokimoto

Hiroshi Kasai

Kunio Nanno

Yoshitoku Iizuka

Kiyotomi Maesaka

Hiroshi Enomoto

Osamu Yasunaga

Seiichi Matsui

Ryozo Yamamoto

Osamu Takeuchi

A rear suspension system for motor vehicles. Both leg ends of a gate-shaped swing arm which at its free end supports the central part of a rear axle are pivotably secured to a vehicle body frame, a tension rod is provided between the lower end of a downwardly extending swing link mounted near the free end of the swing arm and a portion of the vehicle body frame near and below the above pivoted point of the swing arm, and one end of a damper disposed between both legs of the swing arm in a position above the tension rod is mounted near and above the pivoted point of the swing arm, while the other end thereof is attached to the swing link. The rear suspension system can be mounted in a relatively narrow space, and even with devices of relatively large capacities mounted thereabout, it can exhibit its damping characteristics satisfactorily.

Rear suspension system for motor vehicles

A vehicle with at least one front wheel and two rear wheels comprises a rear cushion unit for use in damping repelling forces from the ground surface and other vibratory forces developed by chain driving and the like. The upper end of the rear cushion unit is supported at a position axially rearward of a main frame member of a frame structure, while the lower end thereof is supported at a position forward of a rear axle bearing member. On each side of the rear axle bearing member there is mounted either a sprocket wheel or a braking device. A chain adjustment mechanism of the rear wheel assembly is constructed in such a manner that the front end of the swing arm is pivotally connected to the frame structure via elongated holes located in a lower portion of the frame structure, the elongated holes allowing the front end of the swing arm to be adjustable in position in the longitudinal direction, so that the rear wheel assembly comprising the rear axle bearing member, a rear axle and the rear wheels is adjustable in position in the longitudinal direction.

Vehicle

There is disclosed a starting decompression device for a four-cycle engine for forcedly open an exhaust valve to decompress a combustion chamber. The starting decompression device includes an interlocking means operatively connected to the exhaust valve, a decompression cam member opposed to the interlocking means, and a return spring for urging the cam member towards an inoperative position at which the exhaust valve is closed. In the device, the cam member is automatically returned, at a suitable time during cranking, to close the exhaust valve, thereby mitigating the initial load of cranking and positively starting the engine.

Starting decompression device for a four cycle engine

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Wako, Japan

Yoshitaka Kato