Vehicle
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsMakoto Araki, Takashi Kudo, Toru Takenaka
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a vehicle body and a front wheel that is disposed anterior to the vehicle body and that is steerable about a steering axis. The vehicle body includes a vehicle body frame and a steering rotation unit that is supported on the vehicle body frame and that rotates about the steering axis. The vehicle includes a variable trail length mechanism. The variable trail length mechanism includes an oscillation unit that supports front forks that are disposed to be oscillatable in a fore-aft direction and that support the front wheel, and an electric motor that oscillates the oscillation unit. The electric motor is supported by the vehicle body.
Claims9
A vehicle including a vehicle body and a front wheel that is disposed anterior to the vehicle body and that is steerable about a steering axis, the vehicle body including a vehicle body frame and a steering rotation unit that is supported on the vehicle body frame and that rotates about the steering axis, the vehicle comprising:
- a variable trail length mechanism that varies a trail length of the front wheel, the variable trail length mechanism including an oscillation unit that supports a front wheel support member that is disposed to be oscillatable in a fore-aft direction and that supports the front wheel and a drive source that oscillates the oscillation unit,
- wherein the drive source is supported by the vehicle body,
- wherein the drive source is an electric motor, and
- wherein the electric motor is disposed anterior to the steering rotation unit in a vehicle side elevational view and includes a rotary shaft having an axis disposed so as to be oriented in a vehicle vertical direction.
A vehicle including a vehicle body and a front wheel that is disposed anterior to the vehicle body and that is steerable about a steering axis, the vehicle body including a vehicle body frame and a steering rotation unit that is supported on the vehicle body frame and that rotates about the steering axis, the vehicle comprising:
- a variable trail length mechanism that varies a trail length of the front wheel, the variable trail length mechanism including an oscillation unit that supports a front wheel support member that is disposed to be oscillatable in a fore-aft direction and that supports the front wheel and a drive source that oscillates the oscillation unit,
- wherein the drive source is supported by the vehicle body,
- wherein the steering rotation unit includes a steering shaft journaled by a head pipe of the vehicle body frame, a top bridge fixed to an upper end portion of the steering shaft, and a bottom member fixed to a lower end portion of the steering shaft,
- wherein a bracket that connects, at a position anterior to the head pipe, the top bridge with the bottom member is provided, and
- wherein the drive source is supported by the vehicle body via the bracket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.