Exhaust system and straddled off-road traveling vehicle
AssigneeKawasaki Motors, Ltd.
InventorsHiroaki HAYASHI, Yu TSUDOME, Kozo ARAI, Tomokazu HIRANO, Kaoru MURAKAMI
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Abstract
An exhaust system of a straddled off-road traveling vehicle includes: an exhaust passage extending from an exhaust port of an internal combustion engine of the straddled off-road traveling vehicle and including a lateral portion passing through a lateral space of the internal combustion engine; a silencer connected to the exhaust passage at a position downstream of the lateral portion in a flow direction of an exhaust gas; a main catalyst located inside the silencer; and a precatalyst located at the lateral portion and having a heat capacity smaller than a heat capacity of the main catalyst.
Claims10
An exhaust system of a straddled off-road traveling vehicle,
- the exhaust system comprising:
- an exhaust passage extending from an exhaust port of an internal combustion engine of the straddled off-road traveling vehicle and including a lateral portion passing through a lateral space of the internal combustion engine;
- a silencer connected to the exhaust passage at a position downstream of the lateral portion in a flow direction of an exhaust gas;
- a main catalyst located inside the silencer;
- and
- a precatalyst located at the lateral portion and having a heat capacity smaller than a heat capacity of the main catalyst.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.