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US 10,308,315 · App. 15/843,987 · Granted Jun 4, 2019

Saddle-ridden vehicle

Inventors: Ryohei Hamaguchi (Hamamatsu, JP); Kazuhiro Okita (Hamamatsu, JP)
Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
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Patent No.
US 10,308,315
App. No.
15/843,987
Granted
Jun 4, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A saddle-ridden vehicle includes: a pair of frame members which are disposed on one side and on other side in a vehicle width direction so as to extend in a vehicle front-rear direction; an engine which is disposed between and supported by the pair of frame members; an air cleaner which cleans air for fuel combustion; a supercharger which compresses the air cleaned by the air cleaner; an intercooler which cools, using a cooling wind, the air compressed by the supercharger and supplies resulting air to the engine; and an exhaust wind duct which determines a discharge position or a discharge direction of the cooling wind discharged from the intercooler, and the exhaust wind duct is disposed above the engine on the one side in the vehicle width direction and extends to rear of the engine.

Claims (20)

1. A saddle-ridden vehicle comprising:

a pair of frame members which are disposed on one side of the vehicle and on an opposite side of the vehicle in a vehicle width direction so as to extend in a vehicle front-rear direction;

an engine which is disposed between and supported by the pair of frame members;

an air cleaner which cleans air for fuel combustion;

a supercharger which compresses the air cleaned by the air cleaner;

an intercooler which cools, using a cooling wind, the air compressed by the supercharger;

a surge tank which temporarily stores the air cooled by the intercooler; and

an electronically controlled throttle device which controls a rate of supply of air from the surge tank to an intake port of the engine, wherein:

the electronically controlled throttle device comprises:

a throttle body having an air intake passage which connects the surge tank and the intake port of the engine;

a throttle valve disposed in the air intake passage;

and

a drive motor which controls a degree of an opening position of the throttle valve; and

the intercooler is disposed above the engine on the one side in the vehicle width direction and the drive motor is disposed at a top-rear side of the engine on the opposite side in the vehicle width direction; and

wherein the drive motor is disposed below the air cleaner and the surge tank, at a position that is distant from one of the pair of frame members located on the opposite side in the vehicle width direction.

2. The saddle-ridden vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein:

the saddle-ridden vehicle further comprises an exhaust wind duct from which the cooling wind discharged from the intercooler is discharged; and

the exhaust wind duct is disposed between the intercooler and the drive motor, and a discharge outlet of the exhaust wind duct is located on the one side in the vehicle width direction.

3. The saddle-ridden vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the surge tank is disposed in the top-rear of the engine between the intercooler and the drive motor.

4. The saddle-ridden vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein, in a top view of the saddle-ridden vehicle, the intercooler and the drive motor are disposed between the pair of frame members.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 18, 2017
From: HAMAGUCHI, RYOHEI; OKITA, KAZUHIRO
To: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 044420/0951 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2015-210462 · Oct 27, 2015 · national
JP 2015-210464 · Oct 27, 2015 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 15332565 · Oct 24, 2016
Related Publication 20180105227A1 · Apr 19, 2018