Motorcycle with window screen structure

• US 6,709,042 B2
• Filed: 09/04/2002
• Issued: 03/23/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2001
• 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: Takemura, Hiroo, Ichiriki, Tsuguto, Sakagami, Koji
• Primary Examiner(s): Dayoan, D. Glenn
• Assistant Examiner(s): LYJAK, LORI LYNN
• Application Number:
  US10/233,503
• Publication Number:
  US 20030062740A1
• Time in Patent Office: 566 Days
• Field of Search: 296/77.1, 296/78.1
• US Class Current: 296/78.1
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 17/04 Windscreens

Abstract

A motorcycle including a window screen capable of reducing a back pressure applied to a driver during running of the motorcycle. The motorcycle includes an upper cowl for covering an upper front portion of a vehicular body, and a window screen provided over the upper cowl in such a manner as to be tilted rearwardly. The window screen is moved almost along a tilt direction by a moving unit. The moving unit includes a guide portion providing on an upper cowl and extending along the tilt direction, a movable portion movably supported by the guide portion, a drive unit for moving the movable portion along the guide portion, and a coupling portion for coupling the window screen to the movable portion.

Claims

1. A motorcycle, comprising:

a cowling for covering an upper front portion of a vehicular body;

a window screen provided over said cowling in such a manner as to be tilted toward a rear side of the vehicular body of said motorcycle; and

a moving unit for moving said window screen substantially along a tilt direction, such that when said window screen is located at an upper position, a lower end portion of said window screen is located at an approximately central portion of said window screen at a lower position.

2. The motorcycle according to claim 1, wherein said moving portion includes:

a guide portion provided on said cowling in such a manner as to extend along said tilt direction;

a movable portion movably supported by said guide portion;

a drive unit for moving said movable portion along said guide portion; and

a coupling portion for coupling said window screen to said movable portion.

3. The motorcycle according to claim 2, wherein said coupling portion includes:

a first member fixed to said movable portion in such a manner as to extend along said tilt direction; and

a second member fixed to said window screen,

wherein said first member has a fixing portion capable of fixing said second member to said first member at one of a plurality of different positions in said tilt direction.

4. The motorcycle according to claim 3, wherein the first member is formed into an approximately rectangular shape, and includes a hole portion, a cutout portion, a first projecting portion, and a second projecting portion, and

wherein the first member is fixed to the movable portion via the hole portion and the cutout portion.

5. The motorcycle according to claim 4, wherein the second member is formed of a plate member having an L-shaped cross section, said second member having a first plane connecting to the first member, and a second plane connecting the window screen.

6. The motorcycle according to claim 5, wherein the first plane of the second member has a slot portion extending from a central portion in the longitudinal direction to a lower end side of the first plane, and a plurality of recesses with lock portions cut into an upper end side of the first plane,

wherein the first member is provided with projecting portions for engaging with the slot portion and the recesses of the second member.

7. The motorcycle according to claim 2, wherein the guide portion includes a right guide portion and a left guide portion each being formed into an arc shape with convex sides thereof facing rearwardly.

8. The motorcycle according to claim 2, further comprising push cables connected to said drive unit of the moving unit for sliding the movable portion along the guide portion.

9. A motorcycle, comprising:

a cowling for covering an upper front portion of a vehicular body;

a window screen provided over said cowling in such a manner as to be tilted toward a rear side of the vehicular body of said motorcycle;

a motor of a moving unit for moving said window screen substantially along a tilt direction; and

a coupling portion of said moving unit capable of being manually adjusted to move said window screen substantially along said tilt direction,

whereby movement of the window screen can be electrically or manually realized.

10. The motorcycle according to claim 9, wherein said moving unit includes:

a guide portion provided on said cowling in such a manner as to extend along said tilt direction; and

a movable portion movably supported by said guide portion,

wherein said coupling portion of said moving unit couples said window screen to said movable portion.

11. The motorcycle according to claim 10, wherein said coupling portion includes:

a first member fixed to said movable portion in such a manner as to extend along said tilt direction; and

a second member fixed to said window screen,

wherein said first member has a fixing portion capable of fixing said second member to said first member at one of a plurality of different positions in said tilt direction.

12. The motorcycle according to claim 11, wherein the first member is formed into an approximately rectangular shape, and includes a hole portion, a cutout portion, a first projecting portion, and a second projecting portion, and

wherein the first member is fixed to the movable portion via the hole portion and the cutout portion.

13. The motorcycle according to claim 12, wherein the second member is formed of a plate member having an L-shaped cross section, said second member having a first plane connecting to the first member, and a second plane connecting the window screen.

14. The motorcycle according to claim 13, wherein the first plane of the second member has a slot portion extending from a central portion in the longitudinal direction to a lower end side of the first plane, and a plurality of recesses with lock portions cut into an upper end side of the first plane,

wherein the first member is provided with projecting portions for engaging with the slot portion and the recesses of the second member.

15. The motorcycle according to claim 10, wherein the guide portion includes a right guide portion and a left guide portion each being formed into an arc shape with convex sides thereof facing rearwardly.

16. The motorcycle according to claim 10, further comprising push cables connected to said motor of the moving unit for sliding the movable portion up and down along the guide portion.