Fuel tank and fuel feed system for a motorcycle

• US 4,653,762 A
• Filed: 12/09/1985
• Issued: 03/31/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Murakami, Hiroshi, Fukuchi, Kiyoshi, Nakamura, Michio, Matsui, Yuuji, Tsunoda, Minoru, Matsuhashi, Noriyasu
• Primary Examiner(s): Love, John J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/806,899
• Time in Patent Office: 477 Days
• Field of Search: 280/5 A, 280/5 H, 280/202, 180/219, 123/495, 123/505
• US Class Current: 280/835
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 15/03 Fuel tanks chassis frame comprising fluid storage compartment B62D21/16 ; Details of the fuel feeding system related to the fuel tank F02M37/0076
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 15/06 characterised by fuel reserve systems
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 35/00 Fuel tanks specially adapted for motorcycles or engine-assisted cycles; Arrangements thereof fuel tanks forming part of cycle frames B62K11/00; tanks in general B60K ; closure caps for fuel tanks B60K15/0406

Abstract

A motorcycle is provided with first and a second fuel tanks. These tanks are provided with fuel charging ports respectively. Both the fuel tanks are intercommunicated through a communicating pipe. Since the communicating pipe can be shut by a cock, fuel can be charged into both the tanks promptly through both the fuel charging ports. The communicating pipe is provided with a fuel pump actuated by a diaphragm communicated with an intake manifold of an engine. Accordingly, even if one of the fuel tanks is disposed at a location lower than the carburetor, fuel within the fuel tank can be fed to the carburetor via the other fuel tank. The first and the second fuel tanks may be combined to constitute a single fuel tank.

Claims

1. A motorcycle comprising:

a first fuel tank disposed at an upper portion of a vehicle body and having a fuel charging port, a second fuel tank disposed at a location lower than said first fuel tank and having a fuel charging port, a communicating pipe for intercommunicating both said first and said second tanks, means for fuel transfer from said second fuel tank to said first fuel tank through said communicating pipe, and switching means inserted into said communicating pipe for opening and shutting the communicating pipe.

2. A motorcycle according to claim 1, wherein said first fuel tank is disposed astraddling over a main frame of the vehicle body, and said second fuel tank is disposed below a rear portion of said first fuel tank.

3. A motorcycle according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said means for fuel transfer is a pump which is actuated by a diaphragm communicated with an intake manifold of an engine.

4. A motorcycle according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a fuel reservoir portion is defined at a location higher than a carburetor within said first fuel tank, said fuel reservoir portion being connected to a carburetor through a fuel cock, said communicating pipe being connected to said fuel reservoir portion through a fuel pump.

5. A motorcycle according to claim 4, wherein said fuel pump is actuated by a diaphragm communicated with a intake manifold of the engine.

6. A motorcycle comprising:

a fuel tank, an upper tank portion of said fuel tank is disposed at a location higher than a carburetor and a lower tank portion of said fuel tank is disposed at a location lower than said carburetor, said upper tank portion of said fuel tank being provided internally with a fuel reservoir portion connected to said carburetor through a fuel cock, said fuel reservoir portion and said lower tank portion being interconnected through a communicating pipe and a fuel pump, said fuel pump for pumping fuel from said lower tank portion to said upper tank portion through said communicating pipe.

7. A motorcycle according to claim 6, wherein said fuel pump is actuated by a diaphragm communicated with an intake manifold of an engine.