Electric vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9802556-B2
Application number	US-201615335899-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 27, 2016
Priority date	Oct 27, 2015
Publication date	Oct 31, 2017
Grant date	Oct 31, 2017

Abstract

An electric vehicle includes a wire harness that flexibly follows the swinging of the swing arm, surely avoids any contact with other components, and has excellent durability. The electric vehicle includes a battery mounted to a frame, an inverter and an electric motor accommodated in a swing arm, and a wire harness wired between the frame and the swing arm. The swing arm includes a hollow pivot section, and a partition wall partitioning the pivot section and an arm section. The wire harness suspends from the frame side, enters inside the pivot section from the top face side of the pivot section, and is bent inside the pivot section reaching the inverter through the partition-wall through port.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electric vehicle, comprising:
a frame;
a driving wheel;
a battery mounted to the frame;
a pivot shaft provided on the frame;
a swing arm swingably supported by the frame via the pivot shaft, and supporting the driving wheel;
an inverter accommodated in the swing arm;
a electric motor accommodated in the swing arm and rotating the driving wheel by power supplied from the inverter; and
a wire harness wired between the frame and the swing arm, the wire harness including a power line electrically connecting at least the battery and the inverter, wherein
the swing arm includes: a hollow pivot section swingably supported by the pivot shaft, the hollow pivot section extending in a width direction of the frame; a hollow arm extending rearward from the pivot section and supporting the driving wheel; and a partition wall partitioning the pivot section and the arm section, and extending in a front and rear direction and an up and down direction of the frame,
the inverter and the electric motor are accommodated in the arm section,
the partition wall has a partition-wall through port,
the wire harness is wired from the pivot section side to the arm section side through the partition-wall through port, and
the wire harness suspends from the frame side, enters inside the pivot section from the top face side of the pivot section, and is bent inside the pivot section reaching the inverter through the partition-wall through port.

2. The electric vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein
the pivot section has an upper through port disposed in a top face, and
the wire harness is passed across a gap through the upper through port, and includes:
a seal part water tightly sealing a gap between the partition wall and the wire harness; and
a protection part provided on an edge of the upper through port and preventing interference between the wire harness and the pivot section.

3. The electric vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein
the wire harness has a horizontal portion disposed in a horizontal direction on the frame side, and includes:
a holding part secured to the frame and holding the horizontal portion of the wire harness.

4. The electric vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein
the wire harness has a horizontal portion disposed in a horizontal direction on the frame side, and includes:
a holding part secured to the frame and holding the horizontal portion of the wire harness.

5. The electric vehicle according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a signal line wiring between the frame and the swing arm, and electrically connected to the inverter; and
a relaying connector provided within the pivot section and relaying the signal line.

6. The electric vehicle according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a signal line wiring between the frame and the swing arm, and electrically connected to the inverter; and
a relaying connector provided within the pivot section and relaying the signal line.

7. The electric vehicle according to claim 3 , further comprising:
a signal line wiring between the frame and the swing arm, and electrically connected to the inverter; and
a relaying connector provided within the pivot section and relaying the signal line.

8. The electric vehicle according to claim 4 , further comprising:
a signal line wiring between the frame and the swing arm, and electrically connected to the inverter; and
a relaying connector provided within the pivot section and relaying the signal line.

9. The electric vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein
the pivot section has a working port for use when performing wiring work of the wire harness.

10. The electric vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein
the pivot section has a working port for use when performing wiring work of the wire harness.

11. The electric vehicle according to claim 3 , wherein
the pivot section has a working port for use when performing wiring work of the wire harness.

12. The electric vehicle according to claim 4 , wherein
the pivot section has a working port for use when performing wiring work of the wire harness.

13. The electric vehicle according to claim 5 , wherein
the pivot section has a working port for use when performing wiring work of the wire harness.

14. The electric vehicle according to claim 6 , wherein
the pivot section has a working port for use when performing wiring work of the wire harness.

15. The electric vehicle according to claim 7 , wherein
the pivot section has a working port for use when performing wiring work of the wire harness.

16. The electric vehicle according to claim 8 , wherein
the pivot section has a working port for use when performing wiring work of the wire harness.

Assignees

• Suzuki Motor Corp

Inventors

• Tanaka Junichiro
• Murota Naoya
• Terada Mitsunobu
• Ito Ryo
• Yamada Tomohiro

Classifications

• B60Y2200/126

  Scooters · CPC title

• B62J11/13

  specially adapted for mechanical cables · CPC title

• B62J35/00

  Fuel tanks specially adapted for motorcycles or engine-assisted cycles; Arrangements thereof (fuel tanks forming part of cycle frames B62K11/00; tanks in general B60K {; closure caps for fuel tanks B60K15/0406}) · CPC title

• B62K2204/00

  Adaptations for driving cycles by electric motor · CPC title

• B62K25/283

  for cycles without a pedal crank, e.g. motorcycles · CPC title