Oil pan
AssigneeSuzuki Motor Corporation
InventorsShotaro Okazaki, Ryo Nagasawa, Akira Osada
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Abstract
An oil pan disposed underneath an engine of a motorcycle and configured to reserve engine oil includes a shallow bottom portion and a deep bottom portion formed to extend in a front-rear direction of the motorcycle substantially at a center in a left-right direction of the motorcycle of the shallow bottom portion, and to become deeper than the shallow bottom portion, and in which a space defined in the left-right direction of the motorcycle between both side wall portions of the deep bottom portion that face each other in the left-right direction of the motorcycle is formed to increase as the deep bottom portion extends from a front toward a rear thereof with respect to the motorcycle.
Claims4
An oil pan disposed underneath an engine of a motorcycle and configured to reserve engine oil, comprising:
- a shallow bottom portion;
- and a deep bottom portion formed to extend in a front-rear direction of the motorcycle substantially at a center in a left-right direction of the motorcycle of the shallow bottom portion and to become deeper than the shallow bottom portion and in which a space defined in the left-right direction of the motorcycle between both side wall portions of the deep bottom portion that face each other in the left-right direction of the motorcycle is formed to continuously increase as the deep bottom portion extends from a front toward a rear thereof with respect to the motorcycle, wherein an exhaust pipe connected to the engine of the motorcycle is disposed below the bottom wall portion of the shallow bottom portion and on a side in the left-right direction of the motorcycle of a side wall portion of the deep bottom portion, and wherein the bottom wall portion of the shallow bottom portion is formed to narrow a space defined in the up-down direction of the motorcycle between the bottom wall portion of the shallow bottom portion and the exhaust pipes as the bottom wall portion of the shallow bottom portion extends from the front to the rear thereof with respect to the motorcycle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.