Saddle-ride type vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8967090-B2
Application number	US-201213670759-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 7, 2012
Priority date	Nov 16, 2011
Publication date	Mar 3, 2015
Grant date	Mar 3, 2015

Abstract

A saddle-ride vehicle includes a radiator body having a first radiator and a second radiator each including a core composed of radiating fins and tubes, alternately laminated. The radiator body is disposed forward of an engine while sandwiching a down tube between the first and second radiators in a vehicle left-right direction with the down tube extending rearwardly and downwardly of a head pipe. The radiator bodies and an exhaust pipe connected to the engine are disposed in an overlapping manner when the vehicle is viewed in a plan view. The lower tank of the first radiator include an inlet for the coolant from a lower communicating radiator hose that allows coolant to flow from the lower tank of the second radiator and an outlet for the coolant to a lower end radiator hose that is connected from the lower tank of the first radiator to the engine.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A saddle-ride vehicle having a radiator body including a first radiator and a second radiator, the first and second radiators each comprising:
a core composed of radiating fins and tubes, alternately laminated, wherein the tubes allow a passage of coolant; and
an upper tank and a lower tank connected to each end in a longitudinal direction of the tubes to allow for storage of the coolant;
the radiator body being disposed forward of an engine while sandwi…

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Inoue Yusuke
• Toda Munehiro

Classifications

• F01P3/18

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F01P2050/16

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F28D2021/0094

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F28D1/05366 Primary

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F28D2021/0092

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic