US 6,981,712 B2
Body frame damping structure in a saddle-type vehicle
Kazuhisa Takano, Shizuoka (Japan)
Assigned to Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha, Iwata (Japan)
Filed on Jul. 18, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/623,473.
Claims priority of application No. 2002-211833 (JP), filed on Jul. 19, 2002; and application No. 2003-041540 (JP), filed on Feb. 19, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2004/0124604 A1, Jul. 01, 2004
Int. Cl. B62K 25/28 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 280—283 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A body frame damping structure in a saddle vehicle comprising:
a front fork steerably supported at a front end portion of a body frame;
a front wheel supported at lower end portions of the front fork;
a rear arm pivotally supported at a rear portion of the body frame by a pivot support shaft so as to be swingable up and down;
a rear wheel supported at a swinging end of the rear arm; and
means for generating a damping force disposed so as to bridge a first portion of the body frame with a second portion of the body frame, with means for generating a damping force being respectively coupled to the first and second portions of the body frame, wherein the second portion of the body frame comprises the pivot support shaft, and wherein the pivot support shaft pivotally supports end portions of the means for generating the damping force.