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US 2023/0103828 A1Published application
Saddle riding vehicle
AssigneeKawasaki Motors, Ltd.
InventorsRyosuke OHORI, Tetsuji YAMAMOTO, Masaki NISHIYABU, Takuya NOAMI, Shusei UENO, Shinji IKEDA
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Abstract
A saddle riding vehicle includes: an engine disposed between a front wheel and a rear wheel; a fuel tank disposed above the engine; a generator mounted to a crankshaft of the engine; and an inverter that supplies output of the generator to a battery. The inverter is disposed behind a head pipe, above a crankcase and below the fuel tank.
Claims17
A saddle riding vehicle comprising:
- an engine disposed between a front wheel and a rear wheel;
- a fuel tank disposed above the engine;
- a generator mounted to a crankshaft of the engine;
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- an inverter that supplies output of the generator to a battery,
- wherein the inverter is disposed behind a head pipe, above a crankcase and below the fuel tank.
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A saddle riding vehicle comprising
- an engine as a driving power source;
- a generator mounted to a crankshaft of the engine;
- an inverter that supplies output of the generator to a battery, and
- a cowling which covers a front part of a vehicle body from an outer side in a vehicle widthwise direction, wherein
- the inverter is disposed outward of a vehicle body frame in the vehicle widthwise direction and inward of the cowling in the vehicle widthwise direction, and
- the cowling includes an air intake opening arranged in a front end portion of the cowling and an exhaust air port arranged in an area which faces the inverter in the vehicle widthwise direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.