Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yachiyo Industry Co., Ltd.

Yuichi Kato

Yoshinobu Tateshima

Noriyuki Kawamata

Masateru Takayanagi

Takuya Masada

Tetsuya Nagashita

Masatoshi Okano

Yinghao Ding

Fumihiro Tokumitsu

Tsukuba Sato

Ryotaro Toyofuku

A cooling apparatus includes: a pair of movable frames provided to be movable relative to each other so as to clamp a tank; multiple contact members provided on each of the pair of movable frames and each having a contact surface configured to contact an outer surface of the tank; a cooling liquid supply passage provided with multiple cooling liquid supply ports that respectively open in the contact surfaces of the contact members to supply a cooling liquid toward the outer surface of the tank; and a cooling liquid supply device that supplies the cooling liquid to the cooling liquid supply passage. Each of the contact surfaces is provided with grooves extending from a corresponding one of the cooling liquid supply ports to an outer edge of the contact surface.

Tank cooling apparatus

A production device for a fuel tank, having two or more built-in components attached to an inside of a fuel tank body when the fuel tank body is formed, includes: jigs configured to have the built-in components placed thereon; and a feed robot, as a feed device, configured to feed the built-in components, along with the jigs having the built-in components placed thereon, to a position below molding dies. The feed device may feed the jig, having the built-in components placed thereon, to the position via a subsurface feed path leading to the position.

Production device for fuel tank

By providing a main flame extending from a head pipe and a radiator below a front part of the main frame in a motorcycle having the radiators arranged to the side of the vehicle, it becomes possible to arrange the radiator close to the main frame by providing an upper indentation in an upper corner of an upper tank towards the center of the vehicle. It also becomes possible to arrange the radiator close to an exhaust pipe by providing a lower indentation in a lower outer corner of the lower tank. An upper tank and a lower tank are the same molded part and can therefore be made with a single mold. Since the upper indented sections are provided, there is no interference between the main frame and the radiator. Since the lower indented sections are provided, there is no interference between the mainframe and an exhaust pipe. Furthermore, it is possible to increase the core surface area (heat radiation characteristics) of the middle of the radiator. Accordingly, there is no need for a plurality of molding processes and it is possible to reduce the manufacturing cost of the radiator.

Radiator structure for motorcycle

A motorcycle air cleaner system arranged behind a rear suspension damper. A connecting tube extends from an outlet in an air cleaner so that air for combustion flows sequentially through the air cleaner and the connecting tube. A front surface of the air cleaner is brought close to the rear suspension damper by providing a recessed section for providing clearance for the rear suspension damper. An expanded portion of the connecting tube adjacent the recessed section increases the capacity of the air cleaner.

Motorcycle and motorcycle air cleaner system

To provide an exhaust secondary air system intended to shorten the length of secondary air feed pipes connected to an exhaust secondary air valve thereby making compact the exhaust secondary air system including the secondary air feed pipes, and also to cool the exhaust secondary air valve and the secondary air feed pipes with running wind. A saddle-type vehicle includes a main frame extending rearwardly from a head pipe; a down frame extending downwardly from the head pipe; an engine disposed under the main frame and behind the down frame; and an exhaust secondary air valve, connected to a secondary air feed pipe, for feeding secondary air to an exhaust passage of the engine via the secondary air feed pipe; wherein the exhaust secondary air-valve is mounted on the down frame.

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Saitama, Japan

Yuichi Kato