JPS5977985A - Light car - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] The present invention relates to light vehicles such as two-wheeled, three-wheeled, and four-wheeled vehicles.

Attempts have been made to disguise the passenger compartment of light vehicles such as two-wheeled, three-wheeled, and four-wheeled vehicles. First, the workability of attaching and detaching the roof and the storage space of the roof are not taken into account.

Therefore, even if the roof can be removed, there is no space in the vehicle to store it, and the vehicle is forced to drive with the roof attached or removed.
There are inconveniences such as not being able to attach the roof when you are out in the rain, etc., and this detracts from the advantages of light vehicles such as light weight, small size, compactness, and ease of transportation and handling. It is.

The present invention has been devised to solve the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to make it possible to freely attach/detach and store the roof, and to easily attach/detach and store the roof as needed. Provides light vehicles.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a guide member in the vertical direction near the rear of the driver's seat, connects a roof pipe to which a roof is attached to the guide member so as to be vertically slidable and swingable, and When an embodiment of the present invention is applied to a tricycle, the front end of which is locked to the upper end of the windshield so that the roof can be attached and removed above the driver's seat and the roof can be stored behind the driver's seat. explain.

FIG. 1 is a side view of the vehicle according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the vehicle when the roof is stowed, FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the operation of the roof, and FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the vehicle when the roof is installed. show.

The tricycle 1 includes a front body 2 and a rear body 3.
A front wheel 4 that serves as a single steering wheel is provided at the forefront of the vehicle, and a rear wheel 5.5 that serves as two driving wheels is provided at the rear of the steered rear vehicle body 3. The rear vehicle body 3 is suspended from the front vehicle body 2 via a joint and a rear cushion, which are driven by rolling motion and swing motion.

The front body 2 includes a front floor 11 located above the front wheels 4, an inclined floor 12 extending diagonally downward and rearward from the rear end of the front floor 11, and an inclined floor 1.
A footrest floor 13 is formed from the lower end of the front floor 11 and extends rearward in a flat manner. A handle 15 is erected.

At the rear end of the footrest floor 13, a prosthetic leg resting floor 13 is provided.
Sorting post cover 16 having a width slightly smaller than the left and right width of
A seat 18 with a seat back 17 is attached to the upper part of the seat post cover 16 to form a driver's seat. A rear cover 23 is formed by an inclined surface section 21 extending upward and rearward, and a rear cover 23 is formed by the inclined surface section 21 and a rear surface section 22 extending rearward while being slightly inclined upward from the upper end of the inclined surface section 21. The upper end of 21 is located substantially at the lower end of the seat back 17, the rear body 3 is disposed below the rear cover 23, and the rear body 3 is provided with a cover 24 that covers the rear wheels 5, 5, etc. .

From the front edge and left and right side edges of the front floor 11,
A windshield 31 is erected diagonally rearward, and the upper edge of the windshield 31 is connected to the wind top molding 3.
2, and the upper end of the windshield 31 is formed to be located slightly higher than the head of the driver seated on the seat 18, as shown in FIG.

On both left and right sides of the rear surface portion 22 of the rear cover 23,
As shown in FIGS. 4 to 4, a targa vipe 41 is erected diagonally rearward.

The targa pipe 41 is connected to the rear surface 22 of the rear cover 23.
It consists of left and right standing parts 42.42 that stand up along the sides of the seat back 17, and a connecting part 43 that connects the upper ends of the standing parts 42.42 and the connecting part 43. teeth.

As shown in FIG. 1, it is formed to be located slightly higher than the shoulders of the driver seated on the seat 18.

Grips 44 are formed by baking rubber at appropriate locations on the upright portions 42, 42, and the grips 44 provide convenience when getting on and off the vehicle and when moving the vehicle around.

The upright portion 42 has an opening-shaped cross section as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, and has a guide groove 45 formed in the vertical direction inside thereof.
The guide groove 45 is opened outward by a slit 46, and the upper end portion of the upright portion 42 is provided with locking holes 47, 48 on the front side and the rear side, respectively.

The upright portion 42.42 of the targa bar 41 has a pair of left and right roof pipes 51.51 that are vertically slidable and swingable.
is provided.

The roof pipe 51.51 has a rotating plate 5 at its base end.
2 is welded to the base 53 extending in a substantially straight rod shape;
The roof portion 5 extends in a substantially straight rod shape from the bent portion 54 through the bent portion 54.
A sill 756 is attached to each of the roof parts 55 and 55, and a locking part 57 is formed at the tip of the roof part 55.

As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the rotary plate 52 has a pair of claw portions 61 and 62, and is rotatably attached to a slide piece 63 fitted in the guide groove 45 so as to be slidable up and down. is attached to.

Then, as shown by the imaginary line in Fig. 5, the roof pipe 5
When the base 531 of the targa pipe 41 is slid onto the lower end of the upright part 42 of the targa pipe 41 in a backwardly tilted state, the base 531d is placed on the rear surface part 22, and the bent part 54 is located at the rear end of the rear surface portion 22, the roof portion 55 stands up from the rear end of the rear surface portion 22, and the tip locking portion 57 locks the J-junction group portion 43 of the targa pipe 41, so that the roof 56 is positioned at the rear of the seat back 17. It is shaped to be stored. Furthermore,
From this state, the roof pipe 51 is slid upward, the roof pipe 51 is swung forward at the upper end of the standing portion 42 of the targa pipe 41, and the claw portions 61.62e of the rotation plate 52 are rotated.
When locked in the locking holes 47 and 48 of the Targa vibe 41, the base 53 is attached to the seat 1 as shown by the imaginary line in FIG.
The roof portion 55 is positioned above the head of the driver on both sides and behind the head of the driver seated in the vehicle seat 7, and the tip locking portion 57 locks with the wind top molding 32. A roof 56 is formed to be attached above the driver's seat.

Since the present invention is configured as described above, the Targa vipe 41
Roof pipe 51.5 with the upright part 42°42 as a guide
1 and the forward and backward swinging of the roof pipe 51. Furthermore, the installation work of the roof 56 above the driver's seat and the work of storing the roof 56 behind the seat back 17 can be easily and quickly done by vertically sliding and longitudinally swinging the roof pipe 51.

As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention.

The roof can be attached and removed above the driver's seat and can be stored behind the driver's seat, so you can attach or remove the roof as needed.
It has many excellent features, such as being able to store it at any time at any location, making it easy to attach the roof and store it, and having a simple structure, light weight, and compactness, which further expands the handling of light vehicles. be effective.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings fully show one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 1 is a side view of a vehicle according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the same when the roof is stowed, FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the same showing the operation of the roof, Figure 4 is a perspective view of the same when the roof is attached. FIG. 5 is a side view of a main part showing the connection between the targa pipe and the roof pipe, and FIG. 6 is a cutaway view corresponding to the line Vl in FIG. In the drawings, 2 is a front vehicle body, 3 is a rear vehicle body, 4 is a front wheel, 5 is a rear wheel, 31 is a windshield pipe, 51 is a roof hook, and 56 is a roof. Patent applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Agent: Patent attorney: Yoshi Shimoda, patent attorney: Kunihiko Ohashi, patent attorney: Yu Koyama Figure 6

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a light vehicle equipped with a windshield erected in front of the driver's seat, a guide member is provided in the vertical direction near the rear of the driver's seat, and a roof pipe to which a roof is attached is attached to the guide member so as to be vertically slidable and swingable. This light vehicle is characterized by being movably connected and locking the front end of the roof to the upper end of the windshield, making it possible to freely attach and detach the roof above the driver's seat and store the roof behind the driver's seat.