Three-wheeled motor vehicle
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMitsuo Shiga
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Abstract
A three-wheeled motor vehicle including one steerable front wheel, two rear wheels serving as driving wheels, a fuel tank disposed on an upper portion of a frame, a seat disposed behind the fuel tank, and an engine mounted below the fuel tank. The above engine is a water-cooled engine. A cylinder portion of the engine is disposed on the rear side in the longitudinal direction of a case portion of the engine which case portion underlies the cylinder portion, and a radiator is disposed within a space formed in front of the cylinder portion. By the above arrangement, a large space is ensured in front of the cylinder portion without the need to enlarge the longitudinal size of the three-wheeled motor vehicle, and cooling devices can be disposed within such space.
Claims6
A three-wheeled motor vehicle including a frame, one steerable front wheel attached to said frame, two rear wheels attached to said frame and serving as drive wheels, a fuel tank mounted on an upper portion of said frame, a seat mounted on said frame behind said fuel tank, an engine mounted on a lower portion of said frame, said engine being a water cooled engine and comprising a cylinder portion comprising a cylinder head and cylinder block and a crankcase portion which underlies said cylinder portion, a transmission case integral with said crankcase portion having a transmission-containing portion forward of said crankcase portion, and a radiator being disposed within a space formed in front of said cylinder portion of said engine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.