Rider restriction device of two-wheeled vehicle

• US 20060048989A1
• Filed: 07/05/2005
• Published: 03/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Ogino, Takashi, Kurata, Norihiro, Tsunoda, Kazuhiko, Murata, Yutaka, Akiyama, Hideaki
• Granted Patent: US 7,364,195 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 180/219
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/0051 Knees
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/0088 Cycles, e.g. motorcycles
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/04 Padded linings for the vehicle interior ; Energy absorbing structures associated with padded or non-padded linings
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 27/00 Safety equipment

Abstract

The present invention provides a rider restricting device of a two-wheeled vehicle which is easily applicable to a small-sized vehicle and, at the same time, can absorb a frontward load and alleviate a load applied to a rider.

Claims

1. A rider restriction device of a two-wheeled vehicle which restricts the movement of a rider of the two-wheeled vehicle toward a front side of a vehicle body, the rider restriction device comprising:

a pair of left and right knee portion pads;

a pipe-like pad support member which mounts the knee portion pads on one end side thereof;

a fixing member which fixes another end side of the pad support member in a state that the knee portion pads face knee portions of the rider; and

a load absorbing member which absorbs a forward load applied to the knee portion pads thus restricting the plastic deformation of the pad support member.

2. A rider restriction device of a two-wheeled vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the load absorbing member is a collapse prevention member which restricts the collapse of the pad support member.

3. A rider restriction device of a two-wheeled vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the load absorbing member is a resilient member which is inserted into a plastic deformation portion of the pad support member.

4. A rider restriction device of a two-wheeled vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the load absorbing member is a coil spring which is inserted into a plastic deformation portion of the pad support member.

5. A rider restriction device of a two-wheeled vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the load absorbing member is a bellows-like collapsible body which is formed on the pad support member.

6. A rider restriction device of a two-wheeled vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the fixing member is a pipe-like connecting bar which is connected with another end side of the pad support member perpendicularly and extends in the lateral direction of a vehicle body, and

the load absorbing member is a resilient member which is inserted in the inside of the connecting bar and restricts the torsional deformation of the connecting bar.

7. A rider restriction device of a two-wheeled vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the rider restriction device further includes a reinforcing member which restricts a front tilting amount of the pad support member.