Saddle-ride type vehicle
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorYoshinobu Ozaki
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Abstract
In a saddle-ride type vehicle in which an intake device is arranged at a position covered by a fuel tank from above, the intake device including: an air cleaner; a connecting tube having an upstream end thereof connected to the air cleaner; a throttle device including a throttle valve and connected to a downstream end of the connecting tube; and a resonator, a curved portion bulged upward and curved in a chevron shape is formed in the connecting tube, and the resonator arranged between the fuel tank and the connecting tube is connected to the connecting tube on the air cleaner side further than a top portion of the curved portion as seen in a side view of the vehicle.
Claims16
A saddle-ride vehicle in which a fuel tank and an engine body arranged in a lower side of the fuel tank are mounted to a body frame, and an intake device is arranged at a position covered by the fuel tank from above, the intake device including:
- an air cleaner;
- a connecting tube;
- a throttle device;
- and a resonator directly connected to the connecting tube, the connecting tube having an upstream end thereof directly connected to a purification chamber of the air cleaner and a downstream end thereof directly connected to the throttle device, the throttle device including a throttle valve,
- wherein a curved portion bulged upward and curved in a chevron shape is formed in the connecting tube,
- wherein the resonator is arranged between the fuel tank and the connecting tube and is connected to the connecting tube above a top most portion of the curved portion closer to an air cleaner side than the top most portion of the curved portion as seen in a side view of the vehicle,
- wherein the resonator is positioned above a downwardly curved section of the connecting tube, and
- wherein a connecting portion of the resonator to the connecting tube is arranged to extend upwardly of the connecting tube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.