US 10,118,567 B2Granted

Saddle-ride-type vehicle

AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.

InventorKyohei Hosoya

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Abstract

A saddle-ride-type vehicle having a side cover for enhancing the assembling property and external appearance. In a motorcycle including a side cover which has an upper side cover and a lower side cover in a state where an end portion of the upper side cover and an end portion of the lower side cover overlap with each other, the side cover has a joining portion formed by making the upper side cover overlap with an outer side of the lower side cover. A holding portion is formed by making the lower side cover overlap with an outer side of the upper side cover. A fixing portion is provided where the upper side cover and the lower side cover are made to overlap with each other in the same overlapping state as the joining portion is disposed in the vicinity of the joining portion.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A saddle-ride vehicle including a side cover having a first cover member and a second cover member in a state wherein an end portion of the first cover member and an end portion of the second cover member fit each other, comprising:

said first cover having a lower forward portion having a projecting ridge and an upper rearwardly extending portion having a rear groove;
said second cover having a lower forward portion having an upper edge groove and an upper rearwardly extending portion having an upper edge;
a joining portion formed by a first cover joining portion formed on the lower forward portion of the first cover member fitting with a second cover joining portion formed on an outer side of the lower forward portion of the second cover member;
a holding portion formed by the upper rearwardly extending portion of the second cover member and an outer side of the upper rearwardly extending portion of the first cover member;
and
a fixing portion formed by making the first cover fit with the outer part of the second cover, an outer surface of the first cover being flush with an outer surface of the second cover,
wherein when the first cover member and the second cover member are rotated relative to each other to fit with each other, the first cover joining portion and the second cover joining portion are aligned relative to each other, the upper edge of the second cover member is inserted into the rear groove the first cover member to form the holding portion and the projecting ridge portion of the first cover is inserted into the upper edge groove of the second cover to form the fixing portion for securing the first cover and the second cover relative to each other, and
wherein the fixing portion and joining portion are on a side of a rotation point opposite the holding portion.

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A side cover for a saddle-ride vehicle comprising:

a first cover member having a lower forward portion having a projecting ridge and an upper rearwardly extending portion having a rear groove;
a second cover member having a lower forward portion having an upper edge groove and an upper rearwardly extending portion having an upper edge, an end portion of the first cover member and an end portion of the second cover member fit with each other;
a joining portion formed by a first cover joining portion formed on the lower forward portion of the first cover member fitting with a second cover joining portion formed on an outer side of the lower forward portion of the second cover member;
a holding portion formed by the upper rearwardly extending portion of the second cover member and an outer side of the upper rearwardly extending portion of the first cover member;
and
a fixing portion formed by making the first cover fit with the outer part of the second cover, an outer surface of the first cover being flush with an outer surface of the second cover,
wherein when the first cover member and the second cover member are rotated relative to each other to fit with each other, the first cover joining portion and the second cover joining portion are aligned relative to each other, the upper edge of the second cover member is inserted into the rear groove the first cover member to form the holding portion and the projecting ridge portion of the first cover is inserted into the upper edge groove of the second cover to form the fixing portion for securing the first cover and the second cover relative to each other, and
wherein the fixing portion and joining portion are on a side of a rotation point opposite the holding portion.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/054,468Filed 26 Feb 2016
Priority: JP 2015-05705820 Mar 2015
Published: US 2016/0272127 A122 Sep 2016
Granted: 6 Nov 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

B62J 17/10
Weather guards for riders; Fairings or stream-lining parts not otherwise provided for: ventilation or air guiding devices forming part of fairings
B60R 13/00
Elements for body-finishing, identifying, or decorating
B62K 11/04
Frames: characterised by the engine being between front and rear wheels
B62K 17/00
Cycles not otherwise provided for

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US 2016/0272127 A1Pre-grant publication · published 22 Sep 2016
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