Vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11878638-B2
Application number	US-202017102450-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 24, 2020
Priority date	Nov 27, 2019
Publication date	Jan 23, 2024
Grant date	Jan 23, 2024

Abstract

A vehicle includes a radiator including a fan, a driving seat provided on a rear side of the radiator, a dashboard disposed on the rear side of the radiator and on a front side of the driving seat, and a heat shield plate disposed between the radiator and the dashboard. According to this structure, it is possible to prevent a device (for example, an electric component disposed on the dashboard) disposed on the rear side of the radiator from directly contacting air that receives heat of the radiator.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle comprising:
a radiator including a fan;
a driving seat disposed rearward of the radiator;
a dashboard disposed rearward of the radiator and frontward of the driving seat, the dashboard including a meter;
an engine unit, at least a portion of which, is located below a lower end of the driving seat, and which is disposed further rearward than a front end of the driving seat; and
a heat shield plate disposed between the radiator and the dashboard; wherein the heat shield plate is located in a direction of the air flow through the radiator with regard to the radiator;
wherein the distance between a lower edge of the heat shield plate and a lower edge of the radiator is smaller than a diameter of the fan.

2. The vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein, in a side view of a vehicle body, the heat shield plate is inclined to extend obliquely rearward and downward from an upper edge of the heat shield plate.

3. The vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the heat shield plate includes an area that is at least half of an area of the fan of the radiator in a front view of the vehicle.

4. The vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein at least a part of the heat shield plate is located higher than a rotation center of the fan of the radiator.

5. The vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the heat shield plate overlaps with a rotation center of the fan of the radiator in a front view of the vehicle.

6. The vehicle according to claim 1 , further comprising a vehicle body frame, wherein the heat shield plate is mounted on the vehicle body frame.

7. A vehicle comprising:
a radiator including a fan;
a driving seat disposed rearward of the radiator;
a dashboard disposed rearward of the radiator and frontward of the driving seat, the dashboard including a meter;
an engine unit, at least a portion of which, is located below a lower end of the driving seat, and which is disposed further rearward than a front end of the driving seat; and
a heat shield plate disposed between the radiator and the dashboard; wherein the heat shield plate is located in a direction of the air flow through the radiator with regard to the radiator;
further comprising a vehicle body frame, wherein the heat shield plate is mounted on the vehicle body frame;
further comprising left and right front wheel suspension devices, each including an arm supporting a front wheel so that the front wheels are vertically movable, wherein
the vehicle body frame comprising:
arm support portions to which a proximal portion of the arm of the right front wheel suspension device and a proximal portion of the arm of the left front wheel suspension device are connected, and
left and right strut portions extending upward from the arm support portions, and
wherein the heat shield plate is attached to the left and right strut portions.

8. A vehicle comprising:
a radiator including a fan;
a driving seat disposed rearward of the radiator;
a dashboard disposed rearward of the radiator and frontward of the driving seat, the dashboard including a meter;
an engine unit, at least a portion of which, is located below a lower end of the driving seat, and which is disposed further rearward than a front end of the driving seat; and
a heat shield plate disposed between the radiator and the dashboard; wherein the heat shield plate is located in a direction of the air flow through the radiator with regard to the radiator;
further comprising a vehicle body frame, wherein the heat shield plate is mounted on the vehicle body frame;
wherein the vehicle body frame includes a cross portion disposed along an upper edge of the heat shield plate.

9. The vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein a case is disposed frontward of the dashboard, and
at least an upper portion of the heat shield plate is located frontward of the case.

10. The vehicle according to claim 1 , further comprising an air cleaner disposed frontward of the dashboard, the air cleaner including a case provided with an intake port to suck air through the intake port from outside of the vehicle,
wherein the heat shield plate is disposed between the radiator and the case.

11. The vehicle according to claim 6 , further comprising a front wheel suspension device including a shock absorber, wherein at least a part of the heat shield plate is located further rearward than the shock absorber in a side view of the vehicle.

12. The vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein a position of an upper end of the heat shield plate is the same as a position of an upper end of the radiator, or lower than the upper end of the radiator and higher than a center of the fan of the radiator.

13. The vehicle according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an electric component located frontward of the dashboard; and
a front case in which the electric component is disposed, wherein the heat shield plate is located below the front case in a side view of a vehicle body.

14. A vehicle comprising:
a radiator including a fan;
a driving seat disposed rearward of the radiator;
a dashboard disposed rearward of the radiator and frontward of the driving seat, the dashboard including a meter;
an engine unit, at least a portion of which, is located below a lower end of the driving seat, and which is disposed further rearward than a front end of the driving seat; and
a heat shield plate disposed between the radiator and the dashboard; wherein the heat shield plate is located in a direction of the air flow through the radiator with regard to the radiator;
further comprising:
a front wheel; and
a front fender, wherein at least a part of the heat shield plate is located between the front fender and the front wheel in a side view of a vehicle body.

Assignees

• Yamaha Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Maeda Kenichi
• Nakamura Shinichiro

Classifications

• B60K37/00

  Dashboards (as road-vehicle superstructure sub-units B62D25/14) · CPC title

• B60R13/0869 Primary

  for protecting heat sensitive parts, e.g. electronic components · CPC title

• B60G7/001

  Suspension arms, e.g. constructional features (B60G7/006 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B60G13/00

  Resilient suspensions characterised by arrangement, location or type of vibration dampers (adjusting damping effect B60G17/06; vibration dampers per se F16F) · CPC title

• B60K5/00

  Arrangement or mounting of internal-combustion or jet-propulsion units (B60K7/00 takes precedence; arrangement or mounting of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion B60K6/00) · CPC title