Straddle-type vehicle

• US 10,640,170 B2
• Filed: 06/22/2018
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 07/04/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
• Original Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
• Inventors: Okita, Kazuhiro, Suzuki, Takaya
• Primary Examiner(s): Hurley, Kevin
• Application Number:
  US16/016,121
• Publication Number:
  US 20190010859A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B62M 7/02 with engine between front and rear wheels
• CPC Class Codes: B62M 7/06 directly under the saddle or seat
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 2003/187 arranged in series
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 2025/32 Engine outcoming fluid temperature
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 2037/00 Controlling
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 2050/16 Motor-cycles
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 2060/04 Lubricant cooler
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 2060/12 Turbo charger
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 3/18 Arrangements or mounting of liquid-to-air heat-exchangers such arrangements on cylinders or cylinder heads F01P3/04; relative to vehicles B60K11/04
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 5/10 Pumping liquid coolant; Arrangements of coolant pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 7/165 characterised by systems with two or more loops
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 29/0406 Layout of the intake air cooling or coolant circuit
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 61/02 for driving cycles
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/048 Arranging or mounting on or with respect to engines or vehicle bodies
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

There is provided a straddle-type vehicle. A water jacket is configured to cool an engine by cooling water discharged from a water pump. A radiator is arranged in front of the engine. A cooling water stream control unit is configured to control a flow rate of the cooling water to circulate in the radiator, based on a temperature of the cooling water after cooling the engine. The water pump is mounted to a part of a crankcase at one side in a right and left direction of the straddle-type vehicle. The cooling water stream control unit is arranged at a position that is located at the one side of a center of the straddle-type vehicle in the right and left direction, is lower than a cylinder head cover and is located between the engine and the radiator, when seeing the straddle-type vehicle from a side.

Claims

1. A straddle-type vehicle comprising:

an engine comprising a crankcase, a cylinder provided above the crankcase, a cylinder head provided above the cylinder, and a cylinder head cover provided above the cylinder head;

a water pump configured to discharge cooling water;

a water jacket configured to cool the engine by the cooling water discharged from the water pump;

a radiator arranged in front of the engine and configured to cool the cooling water after cooling the engine; and

a cooling water stream control unit configured to control a flow rate of the cooling water to circulate in the radiator, based on a temperature of the cooling water after cooling the engine,

wherein the water pump is mounted to a part of the crankcase at one side in a right and left direction of the straddle-type vehicle, and

wherein the cooling water stream control unit is arranged at a position that is located at the one side of a center of the straddle-type vehicle in the right and left direction, is lower than the cylinder head cover and is located between the engine and the radiator, when seeing the straddle-type vehicle from a side.

2. The straddle-type vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the cooling water stream control unit is arranged at a position closer to the center of the straddle-type vehicle in the right and left direction than the water pump.

3. The straddle-type vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the cooling water stream control unit overlaps with a part of a vehicle body frame extending downward toward an engine mount part, which is provided at a front part of the cylinder head or the cylinder and at the one side in the right and left direction of the straddle-type vehicle, when seeing the straddle-type vehicle from the front.

4. The straddle-type vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the cooling water stream control unit is arranged at a position closer to the center of the straddle-type vehicle in the right and left direction than a part of the radiator located at the furthest one side in the right and left direction of the straddle-type vehicle.

5. The straddle-type vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first path configured to guide the cooling water from the water jacket to a branch position that is located at the one side in the right and left direction of the straddle-type vehicle and also in front of the cylinder head cover;

a second path configured to guide the cooling water from the branch position to the cooling water stream control unit via a core of the radiator;

a third path configured to guide the cooling water from the branch position to the cooling water stream control unit without through the core of the radiator; and

a fourth path configured to guide the cooling water from the cooling water stream control unit to the water pump,

wherein the third path is arranged at the one side of the center of the straddle-type vehicle in the right and left direction, at the other side than the part of the radiator located at the furthest one side in the right and left direction of the straddle-type vehicle and between the engine and a front surface of the radiator, when seeing the straddle-type vehicle from a side, and

wherein the fourth path is arranged at the one side of the center of the straddle-type vehicle in the right and left direction, at the other side than the part of the radiator located at the furthest one side in the right and left direction of the straddle-type vehicle, and at the rear of the radiator, when seeing the straddle-type vehicle from a side.

6. The straddle-type vehicle according to claim 5, wherein the cooling water stream control unit is supported by a piping forming the third path and a piping forming the fourth path.

7. The straddle-type vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising:

an air cleaner configured to purify air for fuel combustion;

a supercharger configured to compress the air purified by the air cleaner;

an intercooler configured to cool the air compressed by the supercharger and to supply the same to the engine;

an air inlet piping configured to guide the air from the air cleaner to the supercharger; and

an air outlet piping configured to guide the air from the supercharger to the intercooler,

wherein the air inlet piping and the air outlet piping extend vertically between the engine and the radiator at the other side of the center of the straddle-type vehicle in the right and left direction, when seeing the straddle-type vehicle from a side.