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US 2015/0307149 A1Published application
Vehicle
AssigneeYamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshio IIZUKA, Yosuke HIRAYAMA
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a body frame, a left front wheel and a right front wheel, a link mechanism configured to be deformed as a vehicle body leans, and vehicle components disposed directly forward of the link mechanism in relation to a front-and-rear direction of the vehicle. The vehicle components are supported on the body frame via penetrating portions that extend from the body frame toward the front of the vehicle and penetrate the link mechanism.
Claims12
1-11. (canceled)
A vehicle comprising:
- a body frame;
- a left front wheel and a right front wheel that are disposed laterally when seen from a front of the vehicle and are configured to be steered;
- a left shock absorbing device that supports the left front wheel at a lower portion thereof and configured to absorb an upward displacement of the left front wheel in an up-and-down direction of the body frame;
- a right shock absorbing device that supports the right front wheel at a lower portion thereof and configured to absorb an upward displacement of the right front wheel in the up-and-down direction of the body frame;
- a link mechanism including:
- a right side portion that supports an upper portion of the right shock absorbing device so as to turn about a right steering axis that extends in the up-and-down direction of the body frame;
- a left side portion that supports an upper portion of the left shock absorbing device so as to turn about a left turning axis parallel or substantially parallel to the right steering axis;
- and
- a cross portion that supports the right side portion at a right end portion thereof so as to turn about a right axis that extends in a front-and-rear direction of the body frame, that supports the left side portion at a left end portion thereof so as to turn about a left axis parallel or substantially parallel to the right axis, and that is supported on a link support portion of the body frame at a middle portion thereof so as to turn about a middle axis parallel or substantially parallel to the right axis and the left axis;
- and
- a vehicle component disposed forward of the body frame in relation to the front-and-rear direction of the body frame;
- wherein
- the cross portion includes a front cross portion located forward of the link support portion of the body frame;
- the link mechanism includes a through portion that defines a space that does not overlap the front cross portion when the cross portion turns relative to the body frame and that is located inward of a front movable outer edge defined by a locus when the cross portion turns relative to the body frame as seen along the direction of the middle axis;
- and
- the vehicle component is supported on the body frame via a component support portion disposed within the space defined by the through portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.