JPH06156347A - Electrical equipment installing structure of motorcycle - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the assembly workability of a motorcycle and reduce the manufacturing cost by reducing the number of part items and the welding positions of a car body frame. CONSTITUTION:In a motorcycle in which electrical equipments such as a turn signal relay 13 are installed to a car body frame 2, while a reservoir tank 3 to supply a brake fluid to the master cylinder of a disk brake device is installed to the car body frame 2, an electrical equipment installing part 24 is provided on a cap guard 20 to suppress the cap 7 of the reservoir tank 3, and the electrical equipments such as the turn signal relay 13 are installed to the electrical equipment installing part 24.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electric component mounting structure for a motorcycle.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Some motorcycles have a specification in which a disc brake device is adopted as a rear brake. In a motorcycle of this type of specification, like a motorcycle 1 shown in FIG. 3, a reservoir tank 3 is attached to a vehicle body frame 2 and a reservoir hose 4 extending from the reservoir tank 3 is attached.
Are arranged along the vehicle body frame 2 and connected to the master cylinder 6 of the disc brake device 5. The reservoir tank 3 is for replenishing the master cylinder 6 with brake fluid.

As shown in FIG. 4, the reservoir tank 3 has an upper portion closed by a cap 7 and can be opened by hand. Therefore, it is necessary to prevent the cap 7 from being opened by mischief, and therefore, the cap guard 8 for pressing the cap 7 is provided.

The cap guard 8 is generally manufactured by pressing a sheet metal, and is fastened to a stay 9 welded to the vehicle body frame 2 together with a mounting boss 10 of the reservoir tank 3 with a screw 11.

On the other hand, the electrical components such as the turn signal relay 13 are generally attached to the stay 15 welded to the vehicle body frame 2 via the electrical component bracket 14 as shown in an exploded state in FIG. . The electrical component bracket 14 is a sheet metal press-processed product like the cap guard 8, and is provided with an electrical component mounting portion 17 to be inserted into a flat mounting hole 16 formed on one surface of the turn signal relay 13. The stay 1 is fixed by the screw 18
Fastened to 5.

[0006]

As described above, in the prior art,
The number of parts is large because two kinds of parts, a cap guard 8 for pressing the cap 7 of the reservoir tank 3 and an electric component bracket 14 for mounting electric components such as the turn signal relay 13 have to be prepared separately. At the same time, two types of stays 9, 1 are attached to the body frame 2.
Body frame 1 because 5 had to be welded
There were many welding points in. For this reason, there is a problem that the manufacturing cost is increased and the assembling work is also troublesome.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and it is possible to reduce the number of parts and welding points of a vehicle body frame, to reduce the manufacturing cost, and to improve the assembly workability of a motorcycle. An object of the present invention is to provide an electric component mounting structure for a motorcycle that can be used.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, a master tank of a disc brake device is provided with a reservoir tank for replenishing brake fluid to a vehicle body frame, and an electric device such as a turn signal relay is attached to the vehicle body frame. A motorcycle having an attached article, characterized in that an electric equipment attaching portion is provided on a cap guard that holds the cap of the reservoir tank, and the electric equipment such as the turn signal relay is attached to the electric equipment attaching portion. Is.

[0009]

In this case, the cap guard holds down the cap of the reservoir tank and at the same time supports the electric components such as the turn signal relay. Therefore, the cap guard is individually prepared to support the electric components such as the conventional turn signal relay. The bracket and the stay welded to the body frame for attaching the bracket can be eliminated. Therefore, the number of parts of the motorcycle and the welding points of the body frame are reduced, and the manufacturing cost is reduced and the assembling workability is improved.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. An exploded view is shown in FIG. 1 and an assembled state is shown in FIG. 2. The same members as those in FIGS. 4 and 5 are designated by the same reference numerals and will be described.

On the stay 9 for mounting the reservoir tank 3 welded to the vehicle body frame 2, a cap guard 20 is fastened together with a mounting boss 10 for the reservoir tank 3 with screws 11. The cap guard 20 is manufactured, for example, by pressing a metal plate, and includes a fastening portion 22 having an insertion hole 21 for the screw 11 and a horizontal direction from an upper edge portion of the fastening portion 22. It has the pressing part 23 extended.

An electric component mounting portion 24 extending upward is integrally provided at the end of the pressing portion 23.
The electrical component mounting portion 24 has a shape to be inserted into a mounting hole 16 formed on one surface of the electrical component such as the turn signal relay 13 and has a recess 25 for retaining, for example.

The cap card 20 having such a structure is
When the screws 9 are fastened to the stay 9 of the vehicle body frame 2 together with the mounting bosses 10 of the reservoir tank 3, the pressing portion 23 overlaps the cap 7 of the reservoir tank 3, which makes it impossible to loosen the cap 7. Therefore, there is no possibility that the cap 7 is removed by mischief.

The turn signal relay 13 is supported above the reservoir tank 3 by inserting the mounting hole 16 of the turn signal relay 13 into the electrical component mounting portion 24 of the cap guard 20.

In the case of such an electrical equipment mounting structure, the cap guard 20 prevents misalignment of holding the cap 7 of the reservoir tank 3 and at the same time supports the electrical equipment such as the turn signal relay 13, so that the conventional electrical equipment is used. It is not necessary to separately prepare a bracket for supporting the product and weld a dedicated stay for fastening the bracket to the body frame 2.

Therefore, the number of parts of the motorcycle 1 and the welding points of the vehicle body frame 2 are reduced, and the motorcycle 1 is reduced.
It is possible to reduce the manufacturing cost and improve the workability of assembly.

The electrical component mounting portion 24 of the cap guard 20 may be mounted with not only the turn signal relay 13 but also other electrical components.

[0018]

As described above, in the electric component mounting structure for a motorcycle according to the present invention, a reservoir tank for replenishing the brake fluid is mounted on the body frame of the master cylinder of the disc brake device, and the body frame is mounted on the body frame. In a motorcycle equipped with electric components such as a turn signal relay, an electric component mounting portion is provided on a cap guard that holds down the cap of the reservoir tank, and the electric component such as the turn signal relay is mounted on the electric component mounting portion. It is characterized by that.

Therefore, since the cap guard presses the cap of the reservoir tank and at the same time supports the electric components such as the turn signal relay, the bracket which has been individually prepared for supporting the electric components such as the turn signal relay, and the like. The stay welded to the body frame for attaching the bracket can be eliminated.
Therefore, the number of parts of the motorcycle and the welding points of the body frame are reduced, and the manufacturing cost is reduced and the assembling workability is improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing an assembled state of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a right side view showing an example of a motorcycle to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view showing a conventional reservoir tank mounting structure.

FIG. 5 is an exploded perspective view showing a conventional electrical component mounting structure such as a turn signal relay.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Motorcycle 2 Body Frame 3 Reservoir Tank 5 Disc Brake Device 6 Master Cylinder 7 Cap 9 Stay 13 Turn Signal Relay, which is an Example of Electrical Equipment 20 Cap Guard 24 Electrical Equipment Attachment Section

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A motorcycle, in which a master tank of a disc brake device is provided with a reservoir tank for replenishing brake fluid on a vehicle body frame, and an electrical component such as a turn signal relay is attached to the vehicle body frame. An electric component mounting structure for a motorcycle, wherein an electric component mounting portion is provided on a cap guard that holds down the cap, and the electric component such as the turn signal relay is mounted on the electric component mounting portion.