JPH04276183A - Engine for vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To lower the center of gravity of an engine by installing a starter motor in parallel to a crankshaft on the lower half side surface of a crankcase and transmitting the revolution of the starter motor to the crankshaft through a one-way clutch. CONSTITUTION:A starter motor 96 is installed in parallel to a crankshaft 44 on the lower half part side surface of the lower case 31 of a crankcase. The revolution of the starter motor 96 is transmitted to the crankshaft 44 through a one-way clutch 58. Through this arrangement, each position of a starter motor 96, idle gear 95, etc., is lowered, and the center of gravity of the engine is lowered.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to engines for driving vehicles such as motorcycles and tricycles.

0002

[Prior Art] In a vehicle engine with a transmission installed at the rear of the crankcase, a so-called backpack ACG type engine uses the space above the transmission to install an alternating current generator for engine power. In this type of engine, a starter motor is also installed in a part of the space, and the crankshaft is started and rotated via the rotating shaft of the alternator. (Unexamined Japanese Patent Publication No. 2-163539).

However, according to this arrangement, the alternating current generator,
Since heavy parts such as a starting motor and accompanying gears are installed at the top, the center of gravity of the engine becomes high, which is undesirable.

0004

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to lower the center of gravity in the above-mentioned type of engine.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The means for solving the problems in the present invention is to provide a plurality of cylinders facing upward side by side in the front part of the crankcase, a transmission in the rear part of the crankcase, and a transmission. A vehicle engine having a generator installed on the upper part of the engine is characterized in that the starting motor is attached to the lower half of the crankcase parallel to the crankshaft and is interlocked with the crankshaft.

[0006]

[Operation] Due to the above-mentioned arrangement, the starting motor and its accompanying gears are located at the bottom, which lowers the center of gravity of the entire engine.

[0007]

Embodiments Hereinafter, embodiments will be described with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1, 1 is a motorcycle equipped with an engine 2 of the present invention, and the engine 2 is a four-cylinder engine equipped with a well-known two-shaft balancer that damps its secondary vibrations. The motorcycle 1 has a main frame 4 extending left and right rearward from a head pipe 3, and a hook-shaped subframe 5 connected to the main frame 4. The engine 2 has a hanger 6 provided on both frames 4 and 5. 7, 8, and 9 are fixed to both frames 4 and 5.

A front fork 11 supporting a front wheel 10 is supported on the head pipe 3, and a subframe 5
A pair of left and right rear arms 13 that support a rear wheel 12 are pivotally connected to the rear arms 13 by a pivot 14 . As shown in FIG. 6, a rear arm cover 15 is fixed to the upper surface of the rear arm 13, forming a space 15a that is approximately triangular in side view.The rear arm cover 15 is integrally molded from a resin material and has an aluminum surface on its surface. It has a painted beam 16 that is U-shaped in top view and surrounds the front part of the rear wheel 12, a stay 17 extending forward and downward from the front part of the beam 16, and a stay 17 for the rear wheel that extends upward from the beam 16. Fender section 18 and chain cover section 1
Equipped with 9.

One vertex of a triangular lever 21 is pivotally attached to a bracket 20 on the front lower surface of the rear arm 13.
The other two vertices have bars 2 connected to the subframe 5.
2 and a cushion 23 are connected to support the vehicle body. Further, a seat rail 24 and a rear stay 25 extend from the subframe 5. In the figure, 26 is a fuel tank, and 27 is a seat.

The case 30 of the engine 2 has a lower case 31 and an upper case 32 whose planes are cut along the axis position line 30a. A forward-inclined cylinder 33 extends from the upper case 32, and a cylinder head 34 and a head cover 34a. Carburetor 3 on the back
5. An air cleaner 36 and a duct 37 are arranged in this order, and an exhaust pipe 38 is connected to the front surface. As shown in FIG. 7, the four exhaust pipes 38 are joined at a gathering portion 38a and communicated with a muffler.

An oil pan 39, a water-cooled oil filter 40, and a water pump 41 are attached to the lower case 31, and a radiator 42 in front of the engine is connected to the water pump 41. At the base of the oil filter 40 is a water cooling section 4.
0a (Fig. 2) is provided, and a water pump 4 as shown in Fig. 1 is provided.
1 to the water cooling section 40a, and the water cooling section 40
A conduit 40c is connected from a to the water jacket of the cylinder 33, and the cooling water sent from the water pump 41 is
After cooling the lubricating oil passing through the oil filter 40, the cylinder 33 and cylinder head 34 are cooled and the radiator 42 is cooled.
Return to

Inside the case 30, a crankshaft 44, a main shaft 46 and a slave shaft 47 of a transmission 45 (FIG. 3) are arranged along a shaft position line 30a.
Balancer shafts 48 and 49 parallel to the crankshaft 44 are supported at the front and rear of the crankshaft 44, and the positions of both balancer shafts 48 and 49 pass through the center of the crankshaft 44. The shaft position line 50 indicates the crankshaft 44 and the main shaft 4.
6, and passes below the center of the crankshaft 44. In the figure, 51 is an output sprocket fixed to the slave shaft 47, around which a chain 52 for driving the rear wheel 12 is wound, 53 is a generator shaft, and G is the center of gravity of the engine 2.

Each part of the engine 2 will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 2, 3, and 4. The crankshaft 44 has a
The pistons 54 are connected via connecting rods 55, and the outermost web is formed with a primary drive gear 56 of the primary reduction gear P, the third web is formed with a balancer drive gear 57, and the other end is formed with a balancer drive gear 57. A starter gear 59 is installed via a one-way clutch 58. As is clear from FIG. 2, the drive gear 56 has the smallest diameter, and the balancer drive gear 57 and the starter gear 59 have larger diameters in this order. transmission 4
An inner member 61 of a main clutch 60 is fixed to the main shaft 46 of the main clutch 60, and an outer member 62 is rotatably supported, and a serial gear type primary driven gear 63 of a primary reduction gear P is fixed to the outer member 62. It meshes with the drive gear 56. The pressure plate 64 of the clutch is controlled by a rod 65 passing through the main shaft 46 and a piston 66 to intermittent power, and when the main clutch 60 is connected, the power is transferred to the output of the slave shaft 47 via a gear train 67. sprocket 5
1.

As shown in FIG. 4, a front balancer shaft 48 is arranged on one side of a balancer drive gear 57 on the crankshaft 44, and a rear balancer shaft 48 is arranged on the other side via an intermediate shaft 69 having an idle gear 68. A shaft 49 is arranged.

The front balancer 70 is connected to the front balancer shaft 48.
and a balancer gear 71 having a sleeve 72 supported on the shaft 48, and an eccentric balancer weight 73 loosely fitted onto the sleeve 72 and coupled via a rubber damper 74.
Equipped with

The front balancer shaft 48 is connected to the rear balancer shaft 49,
As will be described in detail later, the portion of the intermediate shaft 69 that supports the sleeve 72 is slightly eccentric with respect to the portions that fit into the holes in the lower case 31 at both ends, and the outer end of the shaft 48 has a An adjustment arm 75 shown in FIG. 5 is fixed and secured by a bolt 77 passing through an arcuate hole 76 concentric with the shaft 48. This adjusts the position of the eccentric portion of the front balancer shaft 48, adjusts the engagement between the balancer drive gear 57 and the balancer gear 71, and prevents the generation of noise.

Furthermore, the intermediate shaft 69 and the rear balancer shaft 49
The balancer also includes an eccentric portion similar to the front balancer shaft 48 and adjustment arms 78 and 79 similar to the adjustment arm 75.

As shown in FIG. 8, the intermediate shaft 69 is a shaft whose both ends are centered on the center line 01, and the center line 02 of the eccentric portion 69a is eccentric from the center line 01 by an eccentric amount e1. As explained for the shaft 48 in FIG.
By adjusting the fixed position of gear 8, the supporting position of intermediate gear 68 relative to balancer drive gear 57 is changed, and the meshing of both gears 57 and 68 is adjusted.

The rear balancer 80 also has an eccentric portion 49a on the rear balancer shaft 49 and supports a balancer gear 81 there.
The center line 04 of the balancer gear 81 is eccentric by e2. Therefore, by adjusting the fixed position of the adjustment lever 79 in the same manner as described above, the support position of the balancer gear 81 can be changed and the engagement with the intermediate gear 68 can be adjusted. The rear balancer 80 includes the balancer weight 73
The balancer weight 73a has approximately the same mass as the front balancer 70, and since the balancer gear 81 is driven via the idle gear 68, it rotates in the opposite direction to the front balancer 70. Both balancers 7
The damping effect of 0.80 is equivalent to the well-known one.

[0020] The alternating current generator 83 (ACG) is connected to the cylinder 3
3 and above the transmission 45 (Fig. 2), forming a so-called backpack ACG type engine.
3 is a flexible joint 87 which is equipped with a spring damper 85 and a generator gear 84 of a ceramic gear type that meshes with the primary driven gear 63 without back clearance, and which is divided in the middle and has a rubber damper 86 interposed therebetween.
It has a connected structure.

An oil chamber 89 with which an inlet 88 communicates is formed in the upper case 32 surrounding the generator shaft 53. The outer surface of the oil chamber 89 is closed with a cap 90, and both sides are closed by sealed bearings 91, 92. Closed. Oil passing through the crank bearing is supplied into the oil chamber 89, and the oil flows from there into the horizontal hole-shaped entrance 93a of the generator shaft 53.
The oil is introduced into the central oil passage 93 from the outlet 93b, etc., and the gear 8
4. Supplied to the spring damper 85, etc.

Further, in FIG. 4, the small gear side of the two-stage idle gear 95 meshes with the starting gear 59, and the pinion 97 of the starting motor 96 meshes with the large gear side, thereby energizing the starting motor 96. The crankshaft 44 is driven via the one-way clutch 58. The starting motor 96 is disposed at the front of the lower case 31 as shown in FIG. 1, and is mounted parallel to the crankshaft 44 by fitting the front bearing part 96a into the lower case 31 as shown in FIG. . Starting motor 96
By arranging them in this way, the starting motor 96,
By positioning the idle gear 95 and the like lower than the crankshaft 44, the center of gravity of the entire engine can be lowered.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 100 denotes a pump shaft, which drives the water pump 41 and an oil pump (not shown). A sprocket 101 attached to this shaft is a pump driving sprocket that rotates integrally with the clutch outer member 62. 102
, are driven via a chain 103.

Oil coming out of an oil pump (not shown) enters a water-cooled oil filter 40 through an oil passage 105 having a relief valve 104, and then flows through an outlet pipe 106 to the main gallery 1.
07 and is supplied to each part of the engine. Furthermore, oil supply passages 108 and 109 passing through the case wall in parallel with the main gallery 107 are branched before and after the main gallery 107, and the oil supply passage 108 communicates with an oil passage 110 (FIG. 4) for lubricating the front balancer 70, and an oil supply passage 109. The oil reaches the rear balancer 80 and is supplied to the transmission shaft from an oil path 111 (FIG. 3) which branches off.

In the embodiment described above, the balancer driving gear 57 is provided at a position axially apart from the gears 56, 63 of the primary reduction gear P. The idle gear 68 and the rear balancer gear 81 can be arranged inward from the radial line, and can be easily arranged so that the shaft position line 50 connecting the front and rear balancer shafts passes below the center of the crankshaft 44.

Each of the embodiments shown below is for setting the balancer axis and position line 50 to a low value, but in these as well, the starting motor is located under the crankcase as shown at 96 in FIGS. 1 and 2. The center of gravity of the engine is lowered due to the lower axis position line 50.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 9, the drive system from the balancer drive gear 57 to the front and rear balancers 70, 80 is the same as in the previous embodiment, but the axis position line 50 of both balancers 70, 80
passes through the center of the crankshaft 44 and indicates the upper limit position of both balancers 70 and 80 in the present invention, and this also provides the necessary lowering of the center of gravity. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 10, one idle gear is installed in each drive system of the front and rear balancers 70 and 80, and the shaft position line 50
This is a further reduction. In the figure, 115 is an idle gear meshed between the balancer drive gear 57 and the front balancer gear 71, and 116 is an idle gear meshed between the idle gear 68 and the rear balancer gear 81. The positions of balancers 70, 80 can be lowered.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 11, the drive system for the front balancer 70 is the same as that in FIG. 10, but the rear balancer 80 is driven from the driven gear 63 of the primary reduction gear via the idle gear 117. In this embodiment, although the rear balancer 80 is at a relatively high position, the front balancer 70 is at a low position away from the balancer drive gear 57, so the shaft position line 5
0 is the low position.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 12, a gear is used in the drive system for driving the water pump 41 and an oil pump (not shown), and the rear balancer 80 is driven using the gear. In the figure, 118 is a clutch outer member 6 concentric with the main shaft 46.
A pump drive gear 119 rotates together with the pump shaft 1.
00, and the idler 12
0 is interposed between the pump drive gear 118 and the rear balancer gear 81, and the gear ratio of the balancer drive system is such that both balancers 70, 80 rotate at the same speed and in opposite directions.

In this embodiment, the pump drive gear 11
8 has a small diameter, and the rear balancer gear 81 has an even smaller diameter, so the rear balancer 80 is in a lower position and the front balancer 7
0 is also at a low position, so the axis position line 50 passes through the low position.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 13, gears 118 and 119 are used to drive the pump shaft 100, and the balancer gear 121 of the rear balancer 80 is meshed with the pump drive gear 118, and the balancer gear 71 of the front balancer 70 is , are directly meshed with the balancer drive gear 57.

In this embodiment, the front balancer 70 is at a relatively high position, but because the distance between the shafts of gears 118 and 121 is small, the rear balancer 80 is at a low position, and the shaft position line 5
0 is also a low position.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 14, a rear balancer drive gear 123 driven by a clutch outer member is provided concentrically with the main shaft 46 of the transmission, and the rear balancer gear 8 is connected to the drive gear 123.
The front balancer 70 meshes with the balancer drive gear 57 of the crankshaft 44.

In this embodiment as well, since both the gears 123 and 81 have small diameters and a short distance between their shafts, the rear balancer 80 is at a low position, and the shaft position line 50 is also at a low position.

[0035]

As described above, since the starting motor is attached to the lower half of the crankcase, the center of gravity of the entire engine can be lowered, and the center of gravity of the vehicle can be lowered. Furthermore, since the mechanism drives the crankshaft without using a generator, it has the advantage that the configuration of the generator and the assembly of the starter motor are simplified.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

[Fig. 1] Side view of a motorcycle equipped with the engine of the present invention

[Figure 2] Side view of the engine

[Figure 3] Longitudinal cross-sectional view of the same as above

[Figure 4] Transverse cross-sectional view of the same as above

[Figure 5] Front view of eccentric shaft adjustment section

[Figure 6]
Rear arm cover side view

[Figure 7] Bottom front view of the engine

[Figure 8] Enlarged view of eccentric shaft part

[Figure 9] Balancer drive system layout diagram of another embodiment

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Figure 10: Balancer drive system layout diagram of another embodiment

[Figure 1
1] Balancer drive system layout diagram of other embodiments

[Figure 12]
Balancer drive system layout diagram of other embodiments

[Figure 13]
Balancer drive system layout diagram of other embodiments

[Figure 14] Balancer drive system layout diagram of another embodiment

[Explanation of symbols]

30a, 50 Axis position line 44
Crankshaft 45 Transmission 46
Main shaft 47 Slave shaft 48, 49 Balancer shaft 70, 80 Balancer 96
starting motor

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claim 1: A vehicle engine in which a plurality of upwardly facing cylinders are installed side by side in the front part of the crankcase, a transmission is provided in the rear part of the crankcase, and a generator is installed in the upper part of the transmission. A vehicle engine characterized in that a motor is attached to the lower half of a crankcase parallel to a crankshaft and is interlocked with the crankshaft.