Leisure Vehicle
AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshimoto Matsuda
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Abstract
A leisure vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine as a power unit to drive the leisure vehicle, including a drive wheel, a slip sensor unit configured to detect a slip of the drive wheel, a throttle device mounted to the internal combustion engine, a throttle valve position changing device configured to change a position of a throttle valve of the throttle device, a throttle close operation sensor unit configured to detect that a rider has performed a throttle close operation to close a throttle of the throttle device, and a controller configured to control an operation of the throttle valve position changing device.
Claims7
A leisure vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine as a power unit to drive the leisure vehicle, comprising:
- a throttle device mounted to the internal combustion engine;
- a throttle valve position changing device configured to change a position of a throttle valve of the throttle device;
- a throttle opening degree sensor unit configured to detect an opening degree of the throttle valve;
- and
- a controller configured to control an operation of the throttle valve position changing device;
- wherein the controller is configured to change a closed position of the throttle valve from an idling position corresponding to an idling engine speed of the engine to an open position that is opened to a predetermined degree from the idling position, when the throttle opening degree sensor unit detects that the opening degree of the throttle valve is a opened to a predetermined degree which is larger than an idling position.
A leisure vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine as a power unit to drive the leisure vehicle, comprising:
- a throttle device mounted to the internal combustion engine;
- a throttle valve that is mounted in the throttle device and is configured to vary a cross-sectional area of an air-intake passage of the throttle device;
- and
- a dash pot that is disposed between a fixed member of the throttle device and the throttle valve, the dash pot being configured to be pressed to be contracted by the throttle valve while applying a pressing force against a closing operation of the throttle valve in a predetermined range from an idling position of the throttle valve corresponding to an idling engine speed of the engine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.