Vehicle

US9452806B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA · JP

Inventors

• Yosuke Hirayama · Shizuoka, JP
• Toshio Iizuka · Shizuoka, JP
• Yutaka Kubo · Miyoshi, JP
• Takahiro Watanabe · Moriyama, JP
• Noboru Miyamoto · Tokyo, JP
• Kaoru Sasaki · Shizuoka, JP
• Hirokatsu Ogawa · Shizuoka, JP

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 24, 2013
• Grant date: Sep 27, 2016
• Expiry date: Sep 24, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62K2005/001
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

At least a portion of a tie rod of a steering force transmitting mechanism overlaps with a portion of a first support member or a second support member when viewed from a front of a vehicle in a fully-tilted condition in which the vehicle body frame is fully tilted in the left-right direction. At least a portion of the tie rod is disposed below a second cross member, above a first front wheel and a second front wheel, behind a front end of the first front wheel and a front end of the second front wheel, and ahead of a first axis of a first side member and a second axis of a second side member when viewed from the left or right of the vehicle when the vehicle body frame is in an upright state.