Leaning vehicle
AssigneeYamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNobuo Hara, Yukihide Fukuhara, Takeshi Toyota, Tatsuya Nagata
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Abstract
A leaning vehicle includes: a body frame; a right wheel and a left wheel; a linkage mechanism including arms rotatably supported on the body frame; a left-right tilt angle control mechanism configured to control a tilt angle of the body frame in a left direction or in the right direction by adjusting a rotation of the arms with respect to the body frame; and a control section. The control section controls the left-right tilt angle control mechanism to change the tilt angle of the body frame in the left direction or in the right direction in accordance with an input to the leaning vehicle from a rider while the leaning vehicle is stopped.
Claims17
A leaning vehicle comprising:
- a body frame that tilts rightward when turning rightward in a left-right direction of the leaning vehicle, and tilts leftward when turning leftward in the left-right direction of the leaning vehicle;
- a right wheel and a left wheel that are arranged in a left-right direction of the body frame;
- a linkage mechanism including an arm rotatably supported on the body frame, the linkage mechanism being configured to change relative positions of the right wheel and the left wheel relative to the body frame in a top-bottom direction of the leaning vehicle and tilt the body frame in a left direction of the leaning vehicle or in a right direction of the leaning vehicle by rotating the arm with respect to the body frame;
- a left-right tilt angle control mechanism including an actuator that applies a rotary force to the arm, the left-right tilt angle control mechanism being configured to control a tilt angle of the body frame in the left direction of the leaning vehicle or in the right direction of the leaning vehicle by adjusting the rotary force to be applied by the actuator to the arm;
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- a control section that controls the left-right tilt angle control mechanism to change the tilt angle of the body frame at start of traveling so as to follow a rider's intention in response to and in accordance with an input to the leaning vehicle from a rider concerning a tilt of the body frame in the left direction of the leaning vehicle or in the right direction of the leaning vehicle when the leaning vehicle starts traveling.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.