Forward mounting arrangement of a fuel injector in a vehicle
AssigneeYamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakaaki Imamura
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Abstract
A vehicle is capable of preventing the temperature of the fuel injector from becoming high due to engine heat and also facilitating installation and maintenance of the fuel injector. The vehicle includes a head pipe, a body frame coupled with the head pipe and extending downward to the rear, an engine arranged below the body frame, a cylinder axis of the engine being oriented substantially horizontal, an intake passage for supplying air to the engine, and a fuel injector mounted on a midsection of the intake passage for supplying fuel to the engine. At least a portion of the fuel injector is arranged forward relative to a centerline of the intake passage when viewed from the side of the vehicle body.
Claims13
A vehicle comprising:
- a body frame extending downward and to the rear of the vehicle;
- an engine arranged below the body frame, a cylinder axis of the engine being oriented substantially horizontally and extending in a forward direction of the vehicle;
- and
- an intake passage arranged to supply air to the engine;
- and
- a fuel injector mounted on a midsection of the intake passage and arranged to supply fuel to the engine;
- wherein
- at least a portion of the fuel injector is arranged forward relative to a centerline of the intake passage, when viewed from the side of the vehicle;
- and
- the intake passage includes a first intake passage portion arranged to continue from an inlet port of the engine and extend upward, a second intake passage portion arranged to continue from the first intake passage portion and have a section bent in the lateral direction of the vehicle body, the fuel injector being mounted to the second intake passage portion, and a third intake passage portion arranged to continue from the second intake passage portion and arranged forward of the fuel injector and extended upward, and wherein the third intake passage portion is disposed so as not to cover a front side of the fuel injector, when viewed from a front of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.