Engine-equipped vehicle
AssigneeKubota Corporation
InventorsMichisuke IGA, Masaharu ONO
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Abstract
An engine-equipped vehicle capable of preventing gear noise and gear wear when the engine is started is provided. A multicylinder engine, a gear transmission that shifts power from the multicylinder engine by a shift operation, a centrifugal clutch arranged in a power transmission path from the multicylinder engine to the gear transmission, and an electronic control device that controls an operation of the multicylinder engine are included and the engine is configured to be started with a partial cylinder operation start where under control of the electronic control device, only some cylinders are operated and an operation of other cylinders is stopped.
Claims20
An engine-equipped vehicle comprising:
- a multicylinder engine;
- a gear transmission that shifts power from the multicylinder engine by a shift operation;
- a centrifugal clutch arranged in a power transmission path from the multicylinder engine to the gear transmission;
- and an electronic control device that controls an operation of the multicylinder engine, wherein
- the engine-equipped vehicle is configured so that the engine is started with a partial cylinder operation start where under control of the electronic control device, only some cylinders are operated and an operation of other cylinders is stopped.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.