Intake duct device of motorcycle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9370996-B2
Application number	US-201414539090-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 12, 2014
Priority date	Nov 18, 2013
Publication date	Jun 21, 2016
Grant date	Jun 21, 2016

Abstract

An engine is mounted on a body frame extending from a steering head pipe toward a vehicle rear side slightly downward and an air cleaner is disposed above the engine. An intake duct device includes an intake duct which leads traveling air taken from a front surface of a cowling to the air cleaner so as to make the traveling air pass along both side surfaces of the steering head pipe. The intake duct is made of a separate component from the body frame, is two-divided into a front intake duct and a rear intake duct so as to surround the steering head pipe from front and rear sides, and is fixed to the body frame by fastening.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An intake duct device of a motorcycle in which an engine is mounted on a body frame extending slightly downward from a steering head pipe toward a vehicle rear side and an air cleaner is disposed above the engine, the intake duct device comprising:
an intake duct which leads traveling air taken from a cowling front surface, to the air cleaner so as to make the traveling air pass along both side surfaces of the steering head pipe,
wherein the intake duct comprises a left hole part and a right hole part in a tunnel shape extending in a vehicle front and rear direction, on both left and right sides of a support post part of the body frame,
wherein the intake duct comprises a front intake duct and a rear intake duct, each of the front and rear intake ducts comprising bifurcated portions respectively fastened at a respective front side and a rear side of the support post part, and
wherein the respective bifurcated portions of the front intake duct and the rear intake duct enter the tunnel-shaped left and right hole parts so as to surround the steering head pipe from the front side and the rear side of the support post part and are integrally coupled as a whole and fixed to the body frame.

2. The intake duct device of the motorcycle according to claim 1 ,
wherein the front intake duct communicates with an air inlet opened in the cowling front surface via a fore-intake duct, and the taken traveling air passes along the both side surfaces of the steering head pipe to be sent to the air cleaner connected to a rear portion of the rear intake duct.

3. The intake duct device of the motorcycle according to claim 2 , wherein the body frame comprises: an upper attachment surface and a lower attachment surface for steering laces of the steering head pipe; the support post part supporting the steering lace attachment surfaces; the left and the right hole parts penetrating through a twin-spar frame of the body frame in the vehicle front and rear direction, and
wherein the support post part has an oval shape whose major axis is along the vehicle front and rear direction, fastening parts are provided on the front side and the rear side of the support post part major axis, and the front intake duct and the rear intake duct are fastened to the respective front side and rear side of the support post part via the respective fastening parts.

4. The intake duct device of the motorcycle according to claim 1 , wherein the body frame comprises: an upper attachment surface and a lower attachment surface for steering laces of the steering head pipe; the support post part supporting the steering lace attachment surfaces; and the left and the right hole parts penetrating through a twin-spar frame of the body frame in the vehicle front and rear direction, and
wherein the support post part has an oval shape whose major axis is along the vehicle front and rear direction, fastening parts are provided on the front side and the rear side of the support post part major axis, and the front intake duct and the rear intake duct are fastened to the respective front side and rear side of the support post part via the respective fastening parts.

5. The intake duct device of the motorcycle according to claim 4 , wherein the intake duct branches off into the left and the right hole parts in front of the support post part, with inner sides of the intake duct being along the shape of the support post part, the left and the right hole parts join behind the support post part, and a vicinity of a connection portion of the intake duct with the air cleaner has an intake port shape of being integrally coupled to the air cleaner.

Assignees

• Suzuki Motor Corp

Inventors

• Kawata Koichiro

Classifications

• F02M35/161

  Arrangement of the air intake system in the engine compartment, e.g. with respect to the bonnet or the vehicle front face · CPC title

• F02M35/162 Primary

  Motorcycles; All-terrain vehicles, e.g. quads, snowmobiles; Small vehicles, e.g. forklifts · CPC title

• B62K11/06

  the frame being of single-beam type · CPC title

• F02M35/10144

  Connections of intake ducts to each other or to another device · CPC title

• F02M35/10013

  Means upstream of the air filter; Connection to the ambient air · CPC title