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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2008
Koshi Hayakawa, Wako, JP;
Mutsumi Katayama, Wako, JP;
Jun Morimoto, Wako, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A lighting apparatus has a housing and is disposed at a lower end of a front fork of a motorcycle. The housing includes a front opening disposed on a side of a radiation direction of a lighting body and a side opening disposed on a center side in a width direction of a motorcycle. The side opening in the housing, covered by a lid, is wide enough for the lighting body to pass through. The housing includes a wire guide for withdrawing an electric wire and a drain hole formed in a bottom portion of the housing. The lighting body is fixed on a board. The housing includes rails disposed on an upper wall portion and a lower wall portion thereof, into which an upper end and a lower end of the board are to be fitted so as to position the lighting body in a longitudinal direction.