Windshield assembly for motorcycles
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasaki Watanabe, Akio Yagasaki, Kazuto Chisaka
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Abstract
A windshield assembly for motorcycles. A wiper motor is disposed in a lower position inside a windshield member which extends upwardly from a fairing member, and a wiper switch is mounted on an ornamental panel member which is disposed over the motor, and further a wiper arm is coupled to the motor. These windshield components are integrally assembled together in advance, and the assembled body is mounted to a vehicle body through a mounting stay. Reduction in weight, ensuring of the operating accuracy, improvement of the external appearance and decrease of the mounting time is attained.
Claims9
A windshield assembly in a motorcycle having a vehicle body and a handlebar attached to a front part of said vehicle body, said windshield assembly comprising:
- a fairing member supported through a first stay member by said vehicle body in front of said handlebar;
- an upwardly extending windshield member mounted on said fairing member, said windshield member permitting substantially a front view therethrough;
- an ornamental panel member extending rearwardly from a lower portion of said windshield member;
- a manual switch mounted on an upper surface of said ornamental panel member;
- a motor disposed below said ornamental panel member and operatively connected with said manual switch, said motor being turned on and off by said manual switch, and said motor being fixed to said windshield member and having a substantially longitudinally extending driving shaft;
- a wiper operatively coupled to said motor, said wiper being adapted to wipe a front surface of said windshield member;
- a second stay member for supporting said motor, said second stay member being fixed to said vehicle body;
- said handlebar comprising a substantially transversely extending pipe member, and said fairing member being supported by a support frame member which is fixed to said pipe member through said first stay;
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- said fairing member being secured at its back to a front surface of said support frame member while defining a gap with respect to an upper portion of said support frame member, and said ornamental panel member being provided at a substantially transversely extending front end thereof with a substantially downwardly projecting rib which is fitted in said gap, and being further provided at both edge portions of said front end with substantially downwardly extending projections which are secured to said support frame member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.