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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2017
Applicant:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62K 25/04 (2006.01); B62K 21/06 (2006.01); B62K 21/02 (2006.01); B62K 11/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62K 25/04 (2013.01); B62K 11/04 (2013.01); B62K 21/02 (2013.01); B62K 21/06 (2013.01); B62K 2025/044 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vehicle includes a vehicle body and a front wheel that is disposed anterior to the vehicle body and that is steerable about a steering axis. The vehicle body includes a vehicle body frame and a steering rotation unit that is supported on the vehicle body frame and that rotates about the steering axis. The vehicle includes a variable trail length mechanism. The variable trail length mechanism includes an oscillation unit that supports front forks that are disposed to be oscillatable in a fore-aft direction and that support the front wheel, and an electric motor that oscillates the oscillation unit. The electric motor is supported by the vehicle body.