US 2017/0284288 A1Published application

Internal combustion engine for saddle-ride type vehicle

AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.

InventorHodaka MUKOHARA

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Abstract

An internal combustion engine for a motorcycle includes a rear cylinder head, the rear cylinder head being provided with a camshaft, an exhaust rocker arm rocked by the camshaft, an engine valve closed/opened by being push-pressed by the exhaust rocker arm, and a rocker arm shaft swingably supporting the exhaust rocker arm. In the internal combustion engine for the motorcycle, the rear cylinder head is provided separately from a holder member, the holder member being provided adjacently to the rear cylinder head, the camshaft is rotatably supported by the holder member, and the holder member is provided with right and left rear side walls and internal combustion engine supporting portions, the right and left rear side walls supporting the rocker arm shaft, the internal combustion engine supporting portion being supported by a vehicle body frame.

Claims15

Dependent claims

An internal combustion engine for a saddle-ride type vehicle, the internal combustion engine comprising a cylinder head (97), the cylinder head (97) including a camshaft (104), a rocker arm (107) rocked by the camshaft (104), an engine valve (166) closed/opened by being push-pressed by the rocker arm (107), and a rocker arm shaft (108) swingably supporting the rocker arm (107),

wherein the cylinder head (97) is provided separately from a holder member (98), and the holder member (98) being provided adjacently to the cylinder head (97),
the camshaft (104) is rotatably supported by the holder member (98), and
the holder member (98) includes a rocker arm shaft supporting portion (152u) and an internal combustion engine supporting portion (152a), the rocker arm shaft supporting portion (152u) supporting the rocker arm shaft (108), the internal combustion engine supporting portion (152a) being supported by a vehicle body frame (11).

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Facts

Application: 15/453,186Filed 8 Mar 2017
Priority: JP 2016-06948530 Mar 2016
Published: 5 Oct 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification20 codes

F02B 61/02
Adaptations of engines for driving vehicles or for driving propellers; Combinations of engines with gearing: for driving cycles
F01L 1/047
By means of cams, camshafts, cam discs, eccentrics or the like: camshafts
F01L 1/053
Camshafts: overhead type
F01L 1/18
Transmitting gear between valve drive and valve: rocking arms or levers

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