Exhaust device of motorcycle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9482138-B2
Application number	US-201514928687-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 30, 2015
Priority date	May 10, 2013
Publication date	Nov 1, 2016
Grant date	Nov 1, 2016

Abstract

In an exhaust device in a motorcycle including an article storage pannier at a side portion of a rear portion of the motorcycle, a rear end surface of a muffler which discharges exhaust gas to the outside is located frontward of a front end surface of the pannier, and an outlet pipe of the muffler is curved such that the exhaust gas is discharged to a region below the pannier. An axis of the muffler is inclined so as to extend rearward and upward. A plurality of the outlet pipes are aligned vertically, and the upper outlet pipe is curved.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An exhaust device in a motorcycle including a pannier at a side portion of a rear portion of the motorcycle, wherein
the exhaust device comprising a muffler configured to discharge exhaust gas to an outside, the muffler having a rear end surface located frontward of a front end surface of the pannier, and the muffler has a plurality of expansion chambers therein, and also a plurality of outlet pipes are disposed one above the other, and an upper outlet pipe is curved;
wherein at least one upstream side expansion chamber is disposed rearward of the downstreammost expansion chamber which communicates with the curved outlet pipe so that the exhaust gas is discharged to a region below the pannier.

2. The exhaust device in the motorcycle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a longitudinal axis of the muffler is inclined so as to extend rearward and upward.

3. The exhaust device in the motorcycle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the lower outlet pipe has a straight shape to discharge the exhaust gas below the pannier.

4. The exhaust device in the motorcycle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the outlet pipe protrudes rearward from the rear end surface of the muffler, and an upper portion of an outer peripheral surface of a rear portion of the muffler is inclined so as to approach the axis of the muffler towards the rear.

5. The exhaust device in the motorcycle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the front end surface of the pannier is inclined frontward such that an upper portion thereof is located frontward of a lower portion thereof; and
the upper portion of the front end surface is located frontward of a rear end edge of the upper portion of the muffler.

6. The exhaust device in the motorcycle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a rear end edge of an upper portion of the muffler is located above a bottom surface of the pannier.

7. The exhaust device in the motorcycle as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a heat insulation member configured to suppress heat transmission from the exhaust gas to the pannier on a bottom surface of the pannier.

8. An exhaust device in a motorcycle including a pannier at a side portion of a rear portion of the motorcycle, wherein:
the exhaust device comprising a muffler configured to discharge exhausting gas from a plurality of interior expansion chambers within the muffler through a plurality of outlet pipes disposed one above another with an upper outlet curved pipe, wherein at least one upstream side expansion chamber is disposed rearward of a downstreammost expansion chamber, which communicates with the curved outlet pipe so that the exhaust gas is discharged to a region below the pannier, wherein a bottom surface of the pannier includes a substantially U-shaped groove of a heat insulation member to direct exhaust gas rearward of the pannier along the U-shaped groove.

9. The exhaust device of claim 8 wherein the heat insulation member is formed of metal.

10. The exhaust device of claim 9 wherein a lower outlet pipe has a straight shape through the muffler to discharge exhaust gas below the pannier.

Assignees

• Kawasaki Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Tsubone Toshiyuki
• Senda Atsushi

Classifications

• F01N2340/04

  Arrangement of the exhaust system relative to a vehicle or parts thereof · CPC title

• F01N13/1805

  Fixing exhaust manifolds, exhaust pipes or pipe sections to each other, to engine or to vehicle body (pipe joints in general F16L; fixing auxiliaries in motor vehicles in general B60K) · CPC title

• F01N2490/08

  Two or more expansion chambers in series separated by apertured walls only · CPC title

• F01N2470/18

  the axis of inlet or outlet tubes being other than the longitudinal axis of apparatus · CPC title

• F01N13/14

  having thermal insulation {(exhaust manifolds F01N13/102)} · CPC title