Scooter-type vehicle
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroshi Yamada, Mitsuru Terada, Tsubasa Ishii
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Abstract
A scooter-type vehicle can freely set a capacity of a fuel filter without being restricted by swing of a unit-swing type engine. A fuel supply device includes a fuel tank and a fuel supply passage for supplying fuel to an engine. A pump-anterior filter for purifying the fuel in the fuel tank, a fuel pump, a fuel filter disposed on the downstream side of the fuel pump, and an injector for injecting fuel are arranged on the fuel supply passage in this order. The fuel filter is disposed between the upper surface of the fuel tank and the step floor. The size of the fuel filter can freely be set without being restricted by swing of the engine located rearward of the fuel tank.
Claims18
A scooter-type vehicle, comprising:
- a body frame;
- a step floor provided between a front wheel and a seat;
- a fuel tank disposed below said step floor and having a filler neck projecting upwardly from an upper surface of said fuel tank;
- an engine swingably supported by said body frame behind said fuel tank;
- a fuel supply passage for supplying fuel from said fuel tank to said engine;
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- a fuel filter disposed in an intermediate portion of said fuel supply passage and provided to purify the fuel,
- wherein said fuel filter is disposed between said upper surface of said fuel tank and said step floor,
- wherein said body frame includes a floor pipe located below said step floor and extending in a front-to-rear direction of the vehicle;
- wherein said step floor is disposed along said floor pipe, as viewed from the side of the vehicle;
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- wherein said fuel filter is disposed more inward of the vehicle than said floor pipe and is detachably attached to said floor pipe in such a manner that a longitudinal direction of said fuel filter runs along an extending direction of said floor pipe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.