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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2009
Eiichirou Tsujii, Shizuoka, JP;
Yosuke Hirayama, Shizuoka, JP;
Atsushi Imai, Shizuoka, JP;
Kazuhiro Nishida, Shizuoka, JP;
Masayuki Hirano, Shizuoka, JP;
Toshio Takeuchi, Shizuoka, JP;
Eiichirou Tsujii, Shizuoka, JP;
Yosuke Hirayama, Shizuoka, JP;
Atsushi Imai, Shizuoka, JP;
Kazuhiro Nishida, Shizuoka, JP;
Masayuki Hirano, Shizuoka, JP;
Toshio Takeuchi, Shizuoka, JP;
Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha, Shizuoka, JP;
Abstract
A saddle riding type vehicle includes a balancer beam rotatably mounted on a vehicle body to cause a right wheel and a left wheel to move up and down in opposite directions, and is capable of making turns by leaning the vehicle body. The saddle riding type vehicle also includes a headlight, a drive mechanism arranged to rotate the headlight, a front detector arranged to detect a rotation angle of the balancer beam relative to the vehicle body, and a controller programmed to control the drive mechanism based on a result of detection by the front detector. The rotation angle detected by the front detector corresponds to an angle of the vehicle body leaning sideways relative to a traveling surface (relative lean angle). The controller controls the drive mechanism based on such result of detection by the front detector. The headlight can therefore illuminate directions of movement properly.