Scooter-type vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9580132-B2
Application number	US-201514841854-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 1, 2015
Priority date	Sep 25, 2014
Publication date	Feb 28, 2017
Grant date	Feb 28, 2017

Abstract

A scooter-type vehicle having a storage portion that is formed so as to open in a leg shield, and that is covered by a lid member. An upwardly open storage box is formed on a back surface of the lid member, and the storage box is openably and closably mounted on a lower portion of an opening of the storage portion via a hinge. An axis of the hinge is obliquely arranged such that, as viewed in a plan view, an outer side in the vehicle width direction of the axis of the hinge is positioned more on a front side in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle than a center side of the axis of the hinge in the vehicle width direction. The lid member moves so as to fall obliquely in the rearward and outward direction so that the lid member is opened while avoiding a rider's leg.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A scooter-type vehicle comprising: a handle bar for steering a front wheel; a seat that is disposed behind the handle bar and on which an occupant is seated; a flat floor that is disposed between the seat and the handle bar and on which feet of the occupant are placed; a leg shield that is mounted on a front portion of the flat floor and extends upward; and a storage portion that is formed on the leg shield on a seat side and stores an article therein, wherein
the storage portion is formed so as to open in the leg shield, and is covered by a lid member,
the lid member is configured such that a storage box, which opens upwardly, is formed on a back surface thereof, the lid member being openably and closably mounted on a lower portion of an opening of the storage portion via a hinge,
an axis of the hinge is obliquely arranged such that, as viewed in a plan view, an outer side of the axis of the hinge in the vehicle width direction is positioned more on a front side in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle than a center side of the axis of the hinge in the vehicle width direction.

2. The scooter-type vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein
the storage portion includes: a deep end wall that is formed so as to extend in the vertical direction on a deep end side of an opening formed in the leg shield; and a power supply socket that is disposed at an upper portion of the deep end wall on an inner side in the vehicle width direction and supplies electricity, and
the power supply socket is arranged so as to be observable by a naked eye from a rear side in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle when the lid member is opened.

3. The scooter-type vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein
the storage box includes: a projecting portion that is disposed outside the storage box and extends frontwardly in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle; and an engaging portion that is formed on a distal end portion of the projecting portion, and makes the storage box engage with the storage portion,
the storage portion has a side wall that extends frontwardly in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle from the opening formed in the leg shield and in which a stopper hole is formed, and
the engaging portion is engaged with the stopper hole when the lid member is opened.

4. The scooter-type vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein
the storage box includes: a projecting portion that is disposed outside the storage box and extends frontwardly in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle; and an engaging portion that is formed on a distal end portion of the projecting portion, and makes the storage box engage with the storage portion,
the storage portion has a side wall that extends frontwardly in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle from the opening formed in the leg shield and in which a stopper hole is formed, and
the engaging portion is engaged with the stopper hole when the lid member is opened.

5. The scooter-type vehicle according to claim 3 , wherein
a corrugated portion where a crest shape and a valley shape are continuously formed in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle is formed on the side wall, and
the engaging portion is brought into slide contact with the corrugated portion when the lid member is opened or closed.

6. The scooter-type vehicle according to claim 4 , wherein
a corrugated portion where a crest shape and a valley shape are continuously formed in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle is formed on the side wall, and
the engaging portion is brought into slide contact with the corrugated portion when the lid member is opened or closed.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yamamoto Kanta

Classifications

• B62K21/02

  Front wheel forks or equivalent, e.g. single tine · CPC title

• B62K3/02

  Frames (tandem frames B62K3/14) · CPC title

• B62K19/46 Primary

  Luggage carriers forming part of frame (luggage carriers per se B62J7/00) · CPC title

• B62K11/00

  Motorcycles, engine-assisted cycles or motor scooters with one or two wheels (fairings or streamlining parts not forming part of the frame B62J; transmission of drive from engines to wheels B62M) · CPC title