Transmission device of saddle riding vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11415220-B2
Application number	US-202016920182-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 2, 2020
Priority date	Jul 12, 2019
Publication date	Aug 16, 2022
Grant date	Aug 16, 2022

Abstract

In a transmission device of a saddle riding vehicle arranged in the saddle riding vehicle, including a transmission and an actuator, the transmission including a shift drum, the shift drum rotating and changing shift position, the actuator rotatively driving the shift drum, and controlling the rotation angle of the shift drum by restricting rotation of the shift drum by cogging torque of the actuator, a pattern of an output of the actuator in changing the shift position by one stage is variable.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A transmission device of a saddle riding vehicle, the transmission device being arranged in the saddle riding vehicle, comprising a transmission and an actuator, the transmission including a shift drum, the shift drum rotating and changing shift position, the actuator rotatively driving the shift drum, and controlling a rotation angle of the shift drum by restricting rotation of the shift drum by cogging torque of the actuator, wherein
a pattern of an output of the actuator in changing the shift position by one stage is variable.

2. The transmission device of the saddle riding vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein
an occupant can optionally change the pattern of the output of the actuator.

3. The transmission device of the saddle riding vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein
the shift drum includes lead grooves extending in a rotation direction of the shift drum, speed shift being executed by shifters, the shifters moving along the lead grooves,
the lead grooves include intermediate positions allowing the shifters to be positioned at a position different from that before speed shift and that after speed shift in changing the shift position by one stage,
a first clutch and a second clutch are provided, the first clutch switching transfer of power to a part of a plurality of the shift positions, the second clutch switching transfer of power to the other part of the plurality of the shift positions,
both of the shift positions before the speed shift and after the speed shift are established and power is transferred to the shift position before the speed shift by that one of the first clutch and the second clutch is connected at the intermediate position, and
the actuator has a first output pattern and a second output pattern, the first output pattern allowing rotation of the shift drum to stop once at the intermediate position, the second output pattern allowing the shift position to be changed by one stage skipping over the intermediate position.

4. The transmission device of the saddle riding vehicle according to claim 3 , wherein
when the actuator is to execute outputting by the second output pattern, a clutch corresponding to the shift position after the speed shift out of the first clutch and the second clutch is made to be in a connected state from start to finish of speed shift in changing the shift position by one stage.

5. The transmission device of the saddle riding vehicle according to claim 4 , wherein
a clutch corresponding to the shift position before the speed shift out of the first clutch and the second clutch is disconnected in changing the shift position by one stage.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kittaka Eiji
• Kudo Takashi
• Kojima Hiroyuki

Classifications

• F16H3/006

  power being selectively transmitted by parallel flow paths, e.g. dual clutch transmissions · CPC title

• F16H63/18 Primary

  the final actuating mechanism comprising cams · CPC title

• F16H1/222

  with non-parallel axes · CPC title

• F16H3/08

  exclusively or essentially with continuously meshing gears, that can be disengaged from their shafts · CPC title

• F16H2063/025

  Final output mechanisms for double clutch transmissions · CPC title