ELECTRICAL DEVICE MOUNTING STRUCTURE IN MOTORCYCLE

• US 20080246247A1
• Filed: 02/20/2008
• Published: 10/09/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Access Corp. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: HOSHI, Tomohiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,800,830 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 280/280
• CPC Class Codes: B62K 11/14 Handlebar constructions, or arrangements of controls thereon, specially adapted thereto hand controls per se B62K23/02
• CPC Class Codes: B62K 23/02 hand actuated arrangements of controls on handle-bars of engine-driven cycles B62K11/14
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 224/929 Article carrier for electrical device

Abstract

An electrical device mounting structure on a motorcycle which includes a resilient support member having a spring-flexural resilience and supporting an electrical device unit. The resilient support member has a first portion secured to a vehicle body or a member connected to the vehicle body. The resilient support member also has a second portion provided separate from the first portion and closer to the electrical device. The second portion is supported on the vehicle body or the member connected to the vehicle body via an elastic member having an attenuating property.

Claims

1. An electrical device mounting structure on a motorcycle, comprising:

a resilient support member having a spring-flexural resilience; and

an elastic member having an attenuating property,

the resilient support member including;

an electrical device mounting portion for mounting thereon an electrical device;

a first portion secured to a vehicle body or a member connected to the vehicle body; and

a second portion provided on the resilient support member, positioned on a side of the electrical device mounting portion from a view point of the first portion, and connected to the vehicle body via the elastic member.

2. The mounting structure according to claim 1, wherein the second portion is disposed at a position located between the first portion and the electrical device.

3. The mounting structure according to claim 1, wherein the electrical device is supported on the resilient support plate at a position located between the first portion and the second portion.

4. The mounting structure according to claim 1, wherein the first portion includes at least one first bore defined therein and the second portion includes at least one second bore defined therein;

and the elastic member is mounted in the at least one second bore.

5. The mounting device according to claim 1, wherein the first portion includes at least one first bore defined therein and the second portion includes at least one second bore defined therein;

the elastic member is mounted in the at least one second bore;

the first portion is a vertical portion having the at least one first bore defined therein;

the second portion is a horizontal portion having the at least one second bore defined therein; and

the horizontal portion and the electric device mounting portion extending from an upper end of the vertical portion.

6. The mounting device according to claim 1, further comprising left and right brackets provided on left and right handlebars of the motorcycle in order to provide crosslinking therebetween, wherein the left bracket has at least two mounting portions at a left end thereof;

the right bracket has at least two mounting portions at a right end thereof;

at least one of the mounting portions is secured while clamping the first portion of the resilient support member; and

at least the other of the mounting portions is secured while clamping the second portion of the resilient support member via the elastic member.

7. The mounting structure according to claim 1, wherein the electric device mounting portion extends obliquely relative to a base portion of the resilient support plate containing the first and second portions.