Windscreen apparatus for motorcycle
OwnerNobukatsu Masuda, Akinori Moriinventors
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Abstract
A windscreen apparatus can change the height of a screen in front of a rider desirably or in accordance with the vehicle speed. The apparatus comprises a pair of slide rails of which sliding direction is oriented in a vertical direction or inclined at an angle; a pair of carrier plates for supporting the screen slidably along the slide rails; a pull-up cable connected to an upper end portion of the carrier plate; a pull-down cable connected to a lower end portion of the carrier plate; and a rotary drum on which the cables are wound around, and the rotary drum winds and unwinds the cables so as to slide the carrier plates within a slidable range in the slide rails.
Claims3
A movable windscreen apparatus for a motorcycle, the apparatus comprising:
- a pair of right and left slide rails disposed in an area of a steering unit on a vehicle body, said slide rails being inclined at an angle with respect to a front-rear direction of the vehicle;
- a pair of first and second carrier plates, the first carrier plate disposed on one of the right and left slide rails, and the second carrier plate disposed on the other of the right and left slide rails, the pair of carrier plates supporting the screen at right and left ends of the screen in a slidable manner between the slide rails;
- a pull-up cable connected to an upper end portion of the first carrier plate;
- a pull-down cable connected to a lower end portion of the second carrier plate, the pull-down cable having a mechanical strength larger than that of the pull-up cable;
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- a rotary drum around which each of said pull-up and pull-down cables is wound, the rotary drum being driven to rotate to thereby wind and unwind the pull-up and pull-down cables so as to slide the pair of carrier plates within a slidable range along each of the pair of right and left slide rails.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.