Straddle vehicle
AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasaki Nishiyabu, Yuji Hida
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Abstract
A straddle vehicle includes: a prime mover; a hydraulically actuated main clutch; an oil control valve unit; a power unit case accommodating at least the main clutch; an oil pan mounted beneath the power unit case; a clutch-dedicated pump; a primary filter disposed in an oil passage between the oil pan and the clutch-dedicated pump; and a secondary filter disposed in an oil passage between the clutch-dedicated pump and the oil control valve unit. The primary filter and the secondary filter are mounted on a bottom surface of the power unit case and covered from below by the oil pan.
Claims8
A straddle vehicle comprising:
- a prime mover;
- a hydraulically actuated main clutch disposed in a power transmission route between the prime mover and a drive wheel;
- an oil control valve unit that controls flow of a hydraulic oil supplied to the main clutch;
- a power unit case that includes a case body and a case cover and accommodates at least the main clutch in a chamber formed between the case body and the cover;
- an oil pan mounted beneath the case body of the power unit case and retaining an oil;
- a clutch-dedicated pump that sucks the oil from the oil pan and that discharges the sucked oil as the hydraulic oil toward the oil control valve unit;
- a primary filter disposed in an oil passage between the oil pan and the clutch-dedicated pump;
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- a secondary filter disposed in an oil passage between the clutch-dedicated pump and the oil control valve unit, wherein
- the primary filter and the secondary filter are mounted on a mounting surface on a bottom surface of the case body of the power unit case and covered from below by the oil pan.
A straddle vehicle comprising:
- a prime mover;
- a hydraulically actuated main clutch disposed in a power transmission route between the prime mover and a drive wheel;
- an oil control valve unit that controls flow of a hydraulic oil supplied to the main clutch;
- a power unit case that includes a case body and a cover and accommodates at least the main clutch in a chamber formed between the case body and the cover;
- an oil pan mounted beneath the case body of the power unit case and retaining an oil;
- a clutch-dedicated pump that sucks the oil from the oil pan and that discharges the sucked oil as the hydraulic oil toward the oil control valve unit;
- a primary filter disposed in an oil passage between the oil pan and the clutch-dedicated pump;
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- a secondary filter disposed in an oil passage between the clutch-dedicated pump and the oil control valve unit, wherein
- the primary filter and the secondary filter are mounted on a bottom surface of the case body of the power unit case and covered from below by the oil pan,
- the case body of the power unit case and the oil pan are shaped to form together an accommodation chamber in which the secondary filter is accommodated,
- the bottom surface of the case body is provided with a first recessed portion recessed upwardly,
- a top surface of the oil pan is provided with a second recessed portion recessed downwardly, and
- the first recessed portion and the second recessed portion form the accommodation chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.