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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2014
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Tadashi Oshima, Dublin, OH (US);
Yasuo Hanafusa, Tochigi-ken, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle includes a power unit with an engine that transmits drive force forward and backward to front and rear wheels via propeller shafts. The power unit is supported on a vehicle frame by engine mounts provided at three locations. An engine mount on one side of a crankshaft is farther from the center of gravity of the power unit than the other two mounts. This engine mount joins the crank case and the vehicle frame. The two other engine mounts on the other side of the crankshaft are closer to the center of gravity. These engine mounts join the vehicle frame and front and rear ends of an engine hanger that is joined to the crank case and extends forward and backward beyond at least one of a front end and a rear end of the crank case.