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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2009
Hiroshi Nishijima, Saitama, JP;
Koji Suzuki, Saitama, JP;
Hiroshi Nishijima, Saitama, JP;
Koji Suzuki, Saitama, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A headlight optical axis adjustment apparatus for motorcycle includes an ECU for adjusting an optical axis of a headlight in accordance with a vehicle body attitude. The apparatus includes a center kickstand switch and a side kickstand switch for detecting respective positions of a center kickstand and a side kickstand of the motorcycle. When either of the kickstands is in a deployed position thereof, the ECU is operated to adjust the optical axis of a headlight to a previously set initial direction, regardless of detection outputs from a front vehicle height sensor and a rear vehicle height sensor. The front vehicle height sensor and the rear vehicle height sensor respectively detect the vehicle heights at the front part of the vehicle body and the rear part of the vehicle body. The vehicle heights are represented by compression and decompression amounts of suspensions.