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US 11,235,836 B2Granted
Front-wheel suspension device for saddle riding vehicle
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsHideki Inaizumi, Takahiro Taguma, Takayuki Kitayama, Konomu Hoshi, Hirotaka Nagatani
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Abstract
A motorcycle includes: a front swing arm; a fork holder coupled to the front swing arm in a swingable manner; a front fork steerably supported by the fork holder; and a front cushion unit. In a front-wheel suspension device, one end of the front cushion unit is coupled to the body frame, and the other end of the front cushion unit is coupled to the fork holder.
Claims4
A front-wheel suspension device of a saddle riding vehicle, comprising:
- a swing arm including left and right upper arms and a lower arm that are mounted to a body frame in a swingable manner;
- a fork holder that is coupled to the left and right upper arms and the lower arm in a swingable manner;
- a front fork that is steerably supported by the fork holder and supports a front wheel;
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- a buffer that has one end coupled to the body frame and an other end coupled to the fork holder,
- the fork holder is a cylindrical shaped member that is in a hollow cylindrical shape and that extends in an upward-downward direction, a front-wheel steering shaft that forms an upper portion of the front fork is disposed in an inside of a cylinder of the cylindrical shaped member and rotatably supported to the cylindrical shaped member,
- the left and right upper arms and the lower arm are coupled to the fork holder in a swingable manner in front of a rotational axis of the front-wheel steering shaft,
- the fork holder has a rearward protrusion protruding rearward from a rear surface of the cylindrical shaped member, the other end of the buffer is coupled to the rearward protrusion in a swingable manner,
- the buffer passes between the left and right upper arms disposed at left and right sides of the buffer and extends upward and the one end is connected to the body frame,
- the rearward protrusion is placed upward of the lower arm.
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