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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2008
Toshimasa Mitsubori, Saitama, JP;
Erika Hara, Saitama, JP;
Toshimasa Mitsubori, Saitama, JP;
Erika Hara, Saitama, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A motorcycle including a power transmission device including a continuously variable transmission having a belt wound around a drive pulley and around a driven pulley and a hydraulically-operated clutch provided on at least one of a drive pulley shaft and a driven pulley shaft and an internal combustion engine wherein a supply of working oil to the clutch and of lubricating oil to a continuously variable transmission is enabled while avoiding a complication of an oil passage configuration and an increase in the diameter of the pulley shaft. A clutch control oil passage directs working oil to a clutch and a lubricating oil passage directs lubricating oil to a continuously variable transmission are provided in the particular pulley shaft on which the clutch is provided, so as to be coaxial with each other and be axially isolated from each other.