JP5548730B2 - Scooter type vehicle - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an improvement of a scooter type vehicle in which a power unit is swingably connected to a vehicle body frame.

  2. Description of the Related Art In a scooter type vehicle in which a power unit is swingably connected to a vehicle body frame, a technique is known in which a storage box for storing articles is provided in the vicinity of a step floor on which an occupant places his / her foot (for example, Patent Document 1). (See FIGS. 7 and 8).

  As shown in FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 of Patent Document 1, a pair in the vehicle width direction near the step floor (B2) (the numbers in parentheses indicate the symbols described in Patent Document 1. The same applies hereinafter). Left and right frames (F21, F22) extend in the front-rear direction of the vehicle, and a battery box (10) for storing the battery (Ba) is provided between the pair of left and right frames (F21, F22). The battery box (10) is fastened to a pair of left and right frames (F21, F22).

  By the way, depending on the scooter type vehicle, one frame extends in the vehicle width direction center in the vicinity of the step floor. A scooter type vehicle in which one frame extends in the front and rear of the vehicle cannot employ a structure in which a battery box is fastened to the left and right frames (F21, F22) as in Patent Document 1.

  In recent years, there is a demand to increase the size of the storage box in order to improve the usability of the vehicle. In a scooter type vehicle in which one frame extends in the center in the vehicle width direction, a scooter type vehicle that can firmly attach a storage box near the step floor and can increase the size of the storage box is desired.

Japanese Patent No. 2900174

  An object of the present invention is to provide a scooter type vehicle capable of firmly attaching a storage box near the step floor.

The invention according to claim 1 constitutes a vehicle body, has a vehicle body frame having a head pipe, is attached to the vehicle body frame so as to be swingable up and down, and is attached to the head pipe so as to be steerable. A scooter-type vehicle comprising: a front fork that supports the front wheels; a step floor for supporting passenger's feet; a storage box for storing articles; and a vehicle body cover that covers the storage box and the vehicle body frame The body frame includes a main tube extending downward from the head pipe and extending rearward of the vehicle; a pair of left and right rear frames extending diagonally upward from the rear of the main tube to the rear of the vehicle and supporting a seat on which an occupant sits; A cross member positioned in front of the seat and extending between the left and right rear frames; Ri, said power unit, said being connected to a rear portion of the vehicle body frame, wherein the step floor, the rests in the main tube, wherein the storage box is disposed above the step floor, provided at the front front coupling portion is coupled to the main tube is, the rear is connected to the cross member Te lateral smell, the front portion of the storage box is provided with a fastening shaft that extends in the vehicle width direction, the rear portion of the storage box, left and right The storage box is disposed on one side in the vehicle width direction of the main tube and is bulged forward of the vehicle so as to overlap the main tube in a side view of the vehicle. The scooter-type vehicle is provided on the other side in the vehicle width direction .

  In the invention according to claim 2, the main tube and the pair of left and right rear frames are substantially U-shaped in a side view of the vehicle, and a storage box is housed in the U-shaped portion.

The invention according to claim 3 further includes a battery box that is placed on the main tube and stores the battery. The storage box is mounted on the battery box, the battery box is connected to the main tube, and the lower portion of the storage box is the battery. It is linked to the box.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the storage box includes a detachable lid at the bottom, the lid includes a left lid, a right lid, and a hinge portion that connects between the left lid and the right lid. At the hinge , the battery can be removed and inspected by bending the left and right lids apart .

The invention according to claim 5 includes a fixed side band that bypasses the bottom and side surfaces of the battery box, and a movable side band that is detachably attached to the fixed side band and presses the battery from above. The fixed side band is fastened together with the battery box together with the main tube.

In the invention which concerns on Claim 6 , the fixed side band is being fixed to the battery box with the fastening bolt.

In the invention which concerns on Claim 7 , a storage box consists of the left half body from which a vehicle width direction length mutually differs, and the right half body combined with this left half body.

  In the invention according to claim 1, the storage box is connected to the main tube and the cross member. Since the main tube and the cross member are the main elements of the body frame and are strong, the storage box is firmly fixed to the body frame. Even if the main frame is a mono frame arranged at the center in the vehicle width direction, the storage box is stable because the storage box is fixed to the vehicle body frame at a total of three locations, one at the front and two at the rear.

  In the invention according to claim 2, the storage box is stored in a U-shaped portion formed by the main tube and the rear frame in a side view of the vehicle. If the storage box is configured to be stored in a region surrounded by the U-shaped portion, the height of the storage box can be increased, and the capacity of the storage box can be increased.

In the invention which concerns on Claim 3 , a battery box is integrally provided in the lower part of the storage box, and the lower part of this battery box is fastened to the main tube. Since the storage box integrated with the battery box is fastened to the main tube in addition to the front and rear portions, the number of fastening points is increased and the storage box can be supported more firmly.

  In addition, since the battery box that stores the heavy battery is disposed below the storage box, for example, the center of gravity of the vehicle can be suppressed lower than when the battery is disposed in front of or behind the storage box. it can.

In the invention according to claim 4 , the bottom of the storage box is a detachable lid, and the battery can be attached / detached and inspected by removing the lid.
Maintenance of the battery is performed by putting a hand from above the storage box and removing the lid provided on the bottom of the storage box. Since the battery can be attached and detached simply by removing the lid in the storage box, it is not necessary to disassemble the storage box, and the maintainability of the battery can be improved.

In the invention according to claim 5 , the battery box includes a fixed side band, and the fixed side band is fastened together with the battery box by the main tube.
Since the fixed side band is fastened together with the main tube together with the battery box, the number of fixing bolts can be reduced. In addition, the space for arranging the fastening member can be reduced.

In the invention which concerns on Claim 6 , the fixed side band is being fixed to the said battery box with the volt | bolt. The battery box can be removed from the main tube with the fixed band attached. Therefore, there is no worry that the fixed band is lost.

In the invention according to claim 7 , the storage box includes a left half body having different lengths in the vehicle width direction and a right half body combined with the left half body. When the right and left halves have the same length in the vehicle width direction, there is a split surface at the center in the vehicle width direction, so for example, support engagement such as a U-shaped hook at the center in the vehicle width direction It was difficult to set up a department.

  In this respect, in the present invention, since the vehicle width direction lengths of the right half and the left half are set different from each other with respect to the vehicle width direction center line, the support engagement portion is easily provided at the vehicle width direction center position. Can be provided. In addition, the support engagement portion can be easily given sufficient strength.

1 is a left side view of a motorcycle according to the present invention. Fig. 3 is a left side view of a body frame of the motorcycle. FIG. 3 is a view taken in the direction of arrow 3 in FIG. 2. It is a left view of the battery box and storage box attached to the vehicle body frame. FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken along line 5-5 of FIG. It is an exploded view of the battery box and the band fastened together with the box support stay of the main frame. It is a disassembled perspective view explaining the attachment relationship among a battery box, a battery, a band, a lid, and a box main body. It is a disassembled perspective view explaining the attachment relationship of the battery box and box main body to a vehicle body frame. It is the figure which looked at FIG. 4 from the vehicle width direction opposite side. FIG. 10 is a sectional view taken along line 10-10 in FIG. 9; FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view of part 11 of FIG. 9.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
As shown in FIG. 1, a scooter type vehicle 10 includes a front wheel 11 provided at the front of the vehicle, a front fork 12 that supports the front wheel 11, a body frame 13 that supports the front fork 12 in a freely steerable manner, A unit swing 15 that extends from the body frame 13 to the rear of the vehicle and is swingably provided on the body frame 13 and in which the power unit 14 is integrated, a rear wheel 16 provided at a rear portion of the unit swing 15, a front wheel 11, and a rear wheel 16. The vehicle has a seat 17 provided therebetween as a main element.

The vehicle body frame 13 includes a head pipe 21 that supports a front wheel 11 and a front fork 12 that supports the front wheel 11 so as to be steerable. A steering handle 22 is attached above the head pipe 21, and a front fork 12 that supports the front wheel 11 is connected to the steering handle 22 below the head pipe 21.
A cushion unit 23 is passed between the body frame 13 and the unit swing 15.

The unit swing 15 has a rear wheel 16 and has a power unit 14 as a drive source for the rear wheel 16. The power unit 14 is an engine. An air cleaner 24 is provided integrally with the engine.
In this embodiment, the power unit 14 is an engine, but an electric motor or a hybrid unit including an electric motor and an engine may be used.

Next, a vehicle body cover that covers the vehicle body frame will be described.
The vehicle body cover 30 includes a front cover 31 that covers the periphery of the head pipe 21, a leg shield 32 that extends downward from the front cover 31 to cover the front of the passenger's feet, and an under cover that extends from the lower end of the leg shield 32 to the rear of the vehicle. 33, a side cover 34 extending from the front cover 31 to the rear of the vehicle above the under cover 33, a tunnel cover 35 extending from the inner cover 32 to the rear of the vehicle above the side cover 34, and the tunnel cover 35 A center cover 36 continuously extending rearward of the vehicle and covering the lower portion of the front portion of the seat 17, a rear side cover 37 extending continuously from the side cover 34 toward the rear of the vehicle, and a grip portion 41 of the steering handle 22. And a handle cover 38 that covers a portion excluding. A step floor 42 is provided on the side cover 34 to support the occupant's feet. The step floors 42 are provided on the left and right sides in the vehicle width direction. The vehicle body cover 30 is a member that covers the vehicle body frame 13. The side cover 34 including the step floor 42 is placed on the main tube 51 via a step floor frame (FIG. 3, reference numerals 52L and 52R).

  A front fender 43 is attached to the front fork 12 to prevent mud and the like from splashing on the front fork 12 above the front wheel 11. A rear fender 44 is provided at the rear upper side of the rear wheel 16 to prevent mud and the like that the rear wheel 16 jumps.

Next, the structure of the body frame used in the scooter type vehicle will be described.
As shown in FIG. 2, the vehicle body frame 13 includes a head pipe 21, a main tube 51 that extends downward from the head pipe 21 and then extends to the rear of the vehicle, and a step in which the occupant puts his / her foot on the main tube 51. A step floor frame 52 that supports the floor (FIG. 1, reference numeral 42), a main cross frame 53 that extends in the vehicle width direction at the rear of the main tube 51, and a rear that extends rearward and upward from the main cross frame 53 and supports the seat 17. The main element is a frame 54 and a cross member 55 extending in the vehicle width direction to the rear frame 54 at a position in front of the seat 17.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the rear frames 54L and 54R extend from the left and right in the vehicle width direction of the main cross frame 53 to the rear of the vehicle. A cross member 55 is passed between the rear frames 54L and 54R.

  A pair of left and right step floor frames 52L and 52R that support the left and right step floors (FIG. 1, reference numeral 42) extend to the rear of the vehicle after extending to the left and right in the vehicle width direction. The rear end portions of the left and right step floor frames 52L and 52R are connected to the left and right pivot plates 57L and 57R via the left and right sub stays 56L and 56R, respectively.

A battery box support stay 71 to which a later-described battery box (reference numeral 61 in FIG. 4) is fastened is provided at a portion of the main tube 51 that extends substantially horizontally toward the rear of the vehicle.
Left and right pivot plates 57L and 57R that support the pivot portion of the unit swing 15 are fixed to the left and right ends of the main cross frame 53 in the vehicle width direction.

  A first sub-cross frame 64 is passed between the left and right rear frames 54L, 54R behind the cross member 55, and between the left and right rear frames 54L, 54R behind the first sub-cross frame 64. In addition, a second sub-cross frame 65 is passed.

The left rear frame 54L between the first sub-cross frame 64 and the second sub-cross frame 65 is provided with a cushion bracket 67 to which the upper end of the cushion unit (reference numeral 23 in FIG. 1) is fastened.
Returning to FIG. 2, the main tube 51 and the rear frame 54 form a U-shaped portion 68 that is substantially U-shaped in a side view of the vehicle.

Next, the configuration of the storage box will be described.
As shown in FIG. 4, a battery box 61 is provided inside a U-shaped portion 68 formed by a main tube 51 and a rear frame 54 positioned at the rear of the main tube 51 in the vehicle. A storage box 70 is disposed above the box 61.
The storage box 70 is covered with a vehicle body cover (reference numeral 30 in FIG. 1).
In the figure, the step frame is omitted.

Next, a structure for attaching the battery box and the storage box to the main tube will be described.
As shown in FIG. 5, a battery box support stay 71 having a U-shaped cross section is fixed to the main tube 51, and a battery band 73 that fixes the battery 72 to the main tube 51 on the upper surface 71 a of the battery box support stay; A battery box 61 placed above the battery band 73 is fastened to a first weld nut 84 provided on the main tube 51 by a first fastening bolt 81.

  That is, the battery box 61 is provided with a battery band 73 for fixing the battery 72 to the battery box 61. The battery box 61 and the battery band 73 are first fastened to the main tube 51 at the bottom 68b of the substantially U-shaped portion. The bolts 81 are fastened together. The first fastening bolt 81 passes through the battery box 61 and is fastened to the main tube 51 together with the bottom surface 61b of the battery box.

  The battery band 73 includes a lower band 75 as a fixed side band and an upper band 76 as a movable side band. The lower band 75 is fastened to the battery box 61 from below by a first fastening screw 91. One of the upper bands 76 a is hooked on one of the lower bands 75 a, the other of the upper bands 75 b is aligned with the other 75 b of the lower band, and the battery 72 is fixed to the battery box 61 with the fixing screw 78.

Fastening ribs 103 and 104 are respectively provided on the left and right walls 101 and 102 of the battery box 61, and a left box piece 106 and a right box piece 105 constituting the storage box 70 are respectively provided on the fastening ribs 103 and 104. Fastened with the second fastening screw 92.
Under the storage box 70, a battery box 61 that stores the battery 72 is integrally provided with the storage box 70 by a second fastening screw 92.

  The battery box 61 is fastened to the main tube 51 at the bottom 68b of the U-shaped part. A lid 110 that covers the battery 72 is provided above the battery box 61 below the storage box 70. The lid 110 is also a member constituting the bottom of the storage box 70.

  As shown in FIG. 6, left and right band openings 107, 108 through which a part of the left and right sides of the battery box 61 in the vehicle width direction open upward and through which the lower band 75 constituting the battery band 73 passes are provided.

  Returning to FIG. 5, when the battery box 61 is set on the battery box support stay 62, the upper part of the lower band 75 protrudes upward from the left and right band openings 107, 108. The battery 72 is fixed to the battery box 61 by fixing the upper band 76 to the upper part of the band 75. Thus, most of the lower band 75 is located outside the battery box 61, and the upper band 76 is located inside the battery box 61.

  Returning to FIG. 6, a lid 110 covering the battery 72 is detachably provided on the upper portion of the battery box 61. That is, a removable lid 110 is provided at the top of the battery box 61 at the bottom of the storage box 70, and the battery 72 can be attached and detached and inspected by removing the lid 110.

  The lid 110 includes a left lid 111, a right lid 112, and a hinge portion 113 that connects the left lid 111 and the right lid 112, and as shown in FIG. By bending the gap to a width W1 (W1 <W) that is narrower than the width W in the vehicle width direction of the opening 114 that opens to the upper portion of the storage box 70, the lid 114 is opened from the opening 114 without removing the second fastening screw 92 and the like. 110 can be easily attached and detached. As a result, since the lid 110 can be easily removed from the opening of the storage box 70, the maintainability of the battery 72 is enhanced.

  The storage box 70 has a left-right divided structure including a box piece 105 on one side (right side) and a box piece 106 on the other side (left side), and the vehicle width direction length WR of the right box piece 105 is set to the left side. The box piece 106 is made larger than the length WL in the vehicle width direction (WL <WR).

Next, the attachment relationship among the battery box, battery, band, lid, and box body will be described.
As shown in FIG. 7, the left box piece 106 and the right box piece 105 are aligned from the left and right outside in the vehicle width direction, and a plurality of third fastening screws 93 are used to fix the right box piece 105 and the left box piece 106. And concluded.
After the lid 110 was set on the upper part of the battery box 61, the lid 110 could be fastened to the battery box 61 with a fourth fastening screw 94.

Next, the attachment relationship of the battery box and the box body to the body frame will be described.
As shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, the storage box 70 is disposed on the step floor (FIG. 1, reference numeral 42), and is composed of one and other box pieces 105 and 106, and a box body 116 for storing articles, A front connecting portion 117 provided at the front portion of the box main body 116 and connecting the box main body 116 to the main tube 51, and a left connecting portion provided on the left and right sides of the rear portion of the box main body 116 for connecting the box main body 116 to the cross member 55. 118 and a right connecting part 119.

  The front portion 70a of the storage box is fastened to the main tube 51 at one point where the fastening shaft 131 extends in the vehicle width direction, and the rear portion 70b of the storage box is the rear frame at two points where the fastening shafts 132 and 132 extend in the height direction. Fastened to the cross member 55 passed between 54L and 54R.

  As shown in FIG. 10, a U-shaped stay 121 in which a second weld nut 85 is welded is fixed to the main tube 51. On the other hand, an anti-vibration rubber grommet 123a is fitted to a front connecting portion 117 provided at the front portion of the storage box 70, and a second fastening bolt 82 is fitted to the rubber grommet 123 via a collar 124a. The fastening bolt 82 was fastened to the second weld nut 85. The front connecting part 117 is provided with a slot hole having a long axis extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.

  As shown in FIG. 11, a horizontal stay 122 extending in the horizontal direction is fixed to the front end of the cross member 55. On the other hand, an anti-vibration rubber grommet 123b is fitted to the left and right connecting portions 118 and 119 provided at the rear of the storage box 70, and a third fastening bolt 83 is fitted to the rubber grommet 123b via a collar 124b. The three fastening bolts 83 were fastened to the third weld nut 86 welded to the horizontal stay 122.

The operation of the scooter-type vehicle storage box described above will be described next.
Returning to FIG. 8, the storage box 70 is connected to the main tube 51 by a front connection portion 117 provided in the front portion 70 a of the storage box, and a left connection portion 118 and a right connection portion provided on the left and right of the rear portion of the storage box 70. It is connected to the cross member 55 at 119. As a result, the storage box 70 can be firmly attached to the vehicle body frame 13.

Referring also to FIG. 9, the front portion 70a of the storage box is fastened by the second fastening bolt 82 via the rubber grommet 123a at one point where the fastening shaft 131 extends in the vehicle width direction, and the rear portion 70b of the storage box. Are fastened by the third fastening bolt 83 via rubber grommets 123b and 123b at two points where the fastening shaft 132 extends in the height direction.
Since the fastening shaft direction is changed between the front part 70a and the rear part 70b of the storage box, the front and rear of the storage box 70 can be made less likely to be mistaken during assembly, and the occurrence of erroneous assembly can be prevented.

  Further, since the front connecting portion 117 has an oval slot hole and the left and right rear connecting portions 118 and 119 have circular bolt holes, the storage box 70 is attached to the vehicle body frame 13. Material positioning work is facilitated.

  Furthermore, even when the vibration of the body frame 13 is applied to the storage box 70, the vibration direction applied to the storage box 70 is different between the front portion 70a and the rear portion 70b of the storage box. In addition, the storage box 70 is rubber-mounted with rubber grommets 123a, 123b, 123b. As a result, it is possible to make it difficult for the storage box 70 to vibrate due to the vehicle body frame 13.

  Returning to FIG. 4, the storage box 70 located inside the U-shaped portion 68 is reliably supported by the main tube 51 and the left and right rear frames 54 </ b> L and 54 </ b> R extending to the rear of the main tube 51. With such a support structure, even in the scooter type vehicle 10 having a single main tube 51 and a large space restriction, the height of the storage box 70 can be gained, and the large capacity storage box 70 can be obtained. Can be arranged.

  Referring to FIG. 7, a battery box 61 is integrally provided at a lower portion of the storage box 70, and the lower portion of the battery box 61 is fastened to the main tube 51. Since the lower part of the storage box 70 is fastened to the main tube 51 in addition to the front part and the rear part, the storage box 70 can be supported more firmly. Further, since the battery box 61 that stores the heavy battery 72 is disposed below the storage box 70, for example, the center of gravity of the vehicle is lowered compared to the case where the battery is disposed in front of or behind the storage box. Can be suppressed.

  The storage box 70 has a left-right divided structure composed of a right half (right box piece 105) and a left half (left box piece 106), and the right and left box pieces 105 and 106 are arranged in the vehicle width direction. The length was set differently. Compared to the case where the right box piece 105 and the left box piece 106 have the same length in the vehicle width direction, for example, a fixing member 125 such as a support bracket is easily provided at the center position in the vehicle width direction of the right box piece 105. The fixing member 125 to which the storage box 70 is attached can be provided with sufficient strength by increasing the thickness of the fixing member 125.

  Returning to FIG. 5, the battery box 61 is integrally provided at the lower part of the storage box 70, and the lid 110 that covers the battery 72 is provided at the upper part of the battery box 61. In other words, the storage box 70 is provided with the lid 110 constituting the bottom surface 70c.

  Maintenance of the battery 72 is performed by removing the tunnel cover (FIG. 1, reference numeral 35), putting the hand into the opening 114 from above the storage box 70, and removing the lid 110 constituting the bottom surface 70c of the storage box. The lid 110 has a structure that can be bent by the hinge portion 113, and the lid 110 is removed from the opening 114 while being bent by the hinge portion 113. Since the battery 72 can be attached and detached simply by removing the lid 110 in the storage box, the maintainability of the battery 72 can be improved.

The battery band 73 is fastened to the main tube 51 via a first fastening bolt 81, and the first fastening bolt 81 is fastened to the main tube 51 together with the bottom surface 61b of the battery box.
The battery 72 was fixed to the main tube 51 so as to cover the battery box 61 with the battery band 73. For this reason, the battery box 61 can be more firmly attached to the main tube 51 with the battery band 73.

  The battery box 61 and the battery band 73 are fastened to the main tube 51 by the first fastening bolts 81. By fastening together, the number of fastening bolts can be reduced. In addition, the space for arranging the first fastening bolts 81 can be reduced.

  Although the present invention is applied to a scooter type vehicle in the embodiment, it can also be applied to a tricycle and can be applied to a general vehicle.

  The present invention is suitable for a scooter type vehicle in which one main tube extends in the vicinity of the vehicle in the vicinity of the step floor.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Scooter type vehicle, 11 ... Front wheel, 12 ... Front fork, 13 ... Body frame, 14 ... Power unit, 16 ... Rear wheel, 17 ... Seat, 21 ... Head pipe, 30 ... Body cover, 42 ... Step floor, 51 ... Main tube, 54L, 54R ... left and right rear frames, 55 ... cross member, 61 ... battery box, 68 ... U-shaped part, 70 ... storage box, 70a ... front part of storage box, 70b ... rear part of storage box, 72 ... battery, 75 ... fixed band (lower band), 76 ... movable band (upper band), 81 ... fastening bolt (first fastening bolt), 105 ... right half (right box piece), 106 ... left Half body (left box piece), 110 ... lid, 116 ... box body, 117 ... front connection part, 118 ... left connection part, 119 ... right connection , 131 ... fastening axis (Y-axis), 132 ... fastening axis (Z-axis).

Claims (7)

A vehicle body frame (13) constituting a vehicle body and having a head pipe (21);
A power unit (14) attached to the vehicle body frame (13) so as to be swingable up and down and driving a rear wheel (16);
A front fork (12) that is steerably attached to the head pipe (21) and supports a front wheel (11);
A step floor (42) to support the feet of the passenger,
A storage box (70) for storing articles;
In the scooter type vehicle comprising the storage box (70) and the vehicle body cover (30) covering the vehicle body frame (13),
The vehicle body frame (13) extends downward from the head pipe (21) and then extends to the rear of the vehicle, and extends obliquely upward from the rear of the main tube (51) to the rear of the vehicle. A pair of left and right rear frames (54L, 54R) that support the seat (17) to be seated, and a cross member (55) that is positioned forward of the seat (17) and extends between the left and right rear frames (54L, 54R); Consisting of
The power unit (14) is connected to a rear portion of the vehicle body frame (13),
The step floor (42) is placed on the main tube (51),
The storage box (70) is disposed above the step floor (42), and a front connection part (117) provided on a front part (70a) is connected to the main tube (51), and a rear part (70b). Are connected to the cross member (55) on the left and right ,
The front portion (70a) of the storage box (70) includes a fastening shaft (131) extending in the vehicle width direction, and the rear portion (70b) of the storage box (70) is a fastening shaft extending vertically from side to side. (132, 132),
The storage box (70) is disposed on one side in the vehicle width direction of the main tube (51) and bulges forward of the vehicle so as to overlap the main tube (51) in a side view of the vehicle.
The scooter type vehicle, wherein the front connecting portion (117) is disposed on the other side in the vehicle width direction of the main tube (51) . The main tube (51) and the rear frame (54L, 54R) are substantially U-shaped in a side view of the vehicle, and the storage box (70) is stored in the U-shaped portion (68). The scooter type vehicle according to 1 .   The battery pack further includes a battery box (61) that is placed on the main tube (51) and houses a battery (72), and the storage box (70) is placed on the battery box (61), and the battery box ( The scooter type vehicle according to claim 2, wherein 61) is connected to the main tube (51), and the storage box (70) is connected to the battery box (61) at a lower part. The storage box (70) comprises a removable lid (110) at the bottom,
The lid (110) includes a left lid (111), a right lid (112), and a hinge portion (113) connecting the left lid (111) and the right lid (112).
At the lid the hinge portion (110) (113), said by removing bent between the right lid (112) and the left lid (111), and to allow the detachable and inspection of the battery (72) The scooter type vehicle according to claim 3 . The battery box (61) has a fixed side band (75) that bypasses the bottom and side surfaces of the battery box (61), and is detachably attached to the fixed side band (75). The scooter type vehicle according to claim 3 , further comprising a movable side band (76) for pressing, wherein the fixed side band (75) is fastened together with the main tube (51) together with the battery box (61). The scooter type vehicle according to claim 5, wherein the fixed side band (75) is fixed to the battery box (61) by a fastening bolt (81).   The scooter type vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the storage box (70) includes a left half (106) having different lengths in the vehicle width direction and a right half (105) combined with the left half (106). .

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