Leisure vehicle
AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshimoto Matsuda
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Abstract
A leisure vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine as a power unit to drive the leisure vehicle, including a drive wheel, a slip sensor unit configured to detect a slip of the drive wheel, a throttle device mounted to the internal combustion engine, a throttle valve position changing device configured to change a position of a throttle valve of the throttle device, a throttle close operation sensor unit configured to detect that a rider has performed a throttle close operation to close a throttle of the throttle device, and a controller configured to control an operation of the throttle valve position changing device.
Claims11
A leisure vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine as a power unit to drive the leisure vehicle, comprising
- a drive wheel;
- a slip sensor unit configured to detect a slip of the drive wheel;
- a throttle device mounted to the internal combustion engine;
- a throttle valve position changing device configured to change a position of a throttle valve of the throttle device;
- a throttle close operation sensor unit configured to detect that a rider has performed a throttle close operation to close the throttle valve of the throttle device;
- and
- a controller configured to control an operation of the throttle valve position changing device;
- wherein the controller is configured to cause the throttle valve position changing device to operate to change the position of the throttle valve to increase an engine speed of the engine for a moment, when the throttle close operation sensor unit detects that the rider has performed the throttle close operation and the slip sensor unit detects the slip of the drive wheel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.