JPS6146360B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a structure for attaching a vehicle body cover to a small scooter type vehicle such as a motorcycle or a tricycle.

Conventionally, when attaching a vehicle body cover to a vehicle body frame side member, separate supporting members were provided for each member, which resulted in an increase in the number of parts and the number of processing and assembly steps.

The present invention reduces the number of parts, processing and assembly man-hours, and simplifies the vehicle body structure by using members for supporting accessories such as the fuel tank and battery to also support the vehicle body cover. It is.

An embodiment of the present invention shown in FIGS. 1 to 6 will be described below.

Reference numeral 1 indicates a body frame of a scooter type motorcycle, and the body frame 1 includes a head pipe 2 that pivotally supports a front fork 6, and a main pipe 3 whose front end is integrally fixed to the head pipe 2 by welding or the like. and a rear body frame 4 whose front lower end is integrally fixed to the rear end of the main pipe 3 via a gusset 5 by welding or the like, and the lower end of a front fork 6 which is pivotably supported on the head pipe 2. A front wheel 8 is supported via a shock absorber 7, and a handle 9 is integrally attached to the upper end of the front fork 6.

Further, a bottom plate 10 is integrally fixed to the lower end of the rear body frame 4 so as to face rearward, and a unit swing type power unit 11 supporting a rear wheel 12 is supported on the bottom plate 10.

Furthermore, two arm bars 13 are attached to the lower half of the main pipe 3, extending to the left and right in the vehicle width direction, and each outer end of the arm bar 13 has an arm bar 13 oriented in the front-rear direction, which is the center line direction of the vehicle body. The two floor plate support members 14 are fixed together.

Furthermore, in the rear half of the rear body frame 4,
Two arm pieces 15, 16 extending left and right in the vehicle width direction
are attached in parallel at intervals, and arm pieces 15, 16
A rear action support rod 17 is attached parallel to the rear action support rod 17, and a rear cover attachment piece 18 is attached to the rear end of the rear body frame 4.

Reference numeral 20 denotes a central vehicle body cover integrally formed of plastic or the like, and the central vehicle body cover 20 includes a floor plate 21, a main pipe cover mounting portion 22 erected at the front center of the floor plate 21, and It consists of a standing wall 23 erected at the rear, edges 24 formed on both left and right edges of the floorboard 21, and mounting pieces 25 hanging downward from the edges 24.

Further, the vehicle body cover 50, which is disposed below and behind the seat 80 and is connected to the vertical wall 23 of the central vehicle body cover 20, is connected to the front wall 5.
1. It has a side wall 52 and a rear wall 53, and is integrally molded from plastic or the like.

Therefore, at the lower end of the front wall 51, there is a standing wall 2.
A connecting piece 51a that engages with the connecting hole 23a of No. 3 is provided protrudingly, and the side wall 52 has an opening 52 for fixing the body cover.
a, 52b, an opening 52C for a fuel control remote control dial is formed, and a pair of left and right body cover fixing pieces 53a are formed on the inner wall surface of the rear wall 53.
A fixing piece (not shown) for a tail light attachment member 55 (described later) is provided protruding from the upper part of the rear end edge. Moreover, the vehicle body cover 50 has the openings 52a and 52b.
, a pair of screws 54 are inserted through the gripping member 54.
b to be fixed to the left and right outer end receiving pieces 15a and 16a of the arm pieces 15 and 16, respectively.

Further, a taillight mounting member 55 for mounting a taillight assembly 56 of a taillight and direction indicator light is connected to the rear end open portion of the rear wall 53, and the taillight mounting member 55 is for fixing. Boss part 55
a, 55b, and 55c are screwed to the rear cover attachment piece 18, and a screwed portion 55d is screwed to a piece protruding from the upper rear edge of the rear wall 53.

Further, on the upper wall of the fuel tank 60, which is fixed to the protruding piece 4a and the arm piece 15, a seat attaching protruding piece 6 is attached.
1. An oil injection opening (cap 62), an oil level gauge installation opening 63, a fuel injection opening (cap 64), and a fuel gauge installation part 65 are formed, and the bottom wall of the fuel tank 60 has a fixing protrusion 66.
and a pair of left and right fixing protrusions 69 are attached,
Additionally, an oil pipe 67 and a fuel pipe 68 are provided.

Further, a fixing protrusion 71 is attached to the front part of the bottom wall of the battery box 70 which is fixed to the protrusion 17a and the arm piece 16 and also serves as an accessory case.
A right pair of screw openings 72 are formed.

Furthermore, an upper hinge member 83 constituting a hinge 82 is provided at the front of the bottom plate 81 of the seat 80, which is disposed so as to cover the open upper end portion of the vehicle body cover 50.
is screwed on, and a pair of vibration absorbing rubbers 86 on the left and right are attached to the rear.
is attached.

In the hinge 82, the upper and lower hinge members 83 and 84 are connected by a connecting bolt 85, and the lower hinge member 84 is screwed onto the seat mounting protrusion 61.

Further, a front shield 30 disposed at the front part of the central vehicle body cover 20 has a headlight storage section 3.
1. Auxiliary fender part 32, leg shield part 3
3. It has a footrest 34 and is integrally connected to the main pipe cover 40, and both members 30, 40 are formed so as to be connected to the central vehicle body cover 20.

Each member in the illustrated embodiment is constructed as described above, and the assembly of each member will be described below.

The central body cover 20 is fixed to the opening 14a of the floor plate support member 14 with bolts and nuts at the mounting piece 25, and the front shield 30 is attached to the central body cover 20, and the main pipe cover 40 is attached to the main pipe cover attachment part 22. The main pipe 3 is surrounded by both members 30 and 40.

On the other hand, when attaching the fuel tank 60 to the rear body frame 4, the fixing protrusion 66 of the fuel tank 60 is screwed onto the protrusion 4a, and the pair of fixing protrusions 69 located at the rear of the fuel tank 60 Screw it onto the arm piece 15.

At a rear position of the fuel tank 60, a battery box 70 which also serves as a storage for small items is attached.

In other words, battery box 7 that also serves as an accessory case.
The fixing protrusion 71 of No. 0 is engaged with the protrusion 17a fixed to the rear body frame 4, and screwed onto the arm piece 16 through the pair of left and right screw openings 72.

Next, in order to attach the vehicle body cover 50, the vehicle body cover 50 is arranged so as to surround the fuel tank 60 and the battery box 70 which also serves as an accessory case, and the connecting piece 51a protruding from the front wall 51 and the vertical wall 23 to connect the vehicle body cover 50 and the central vehicle body cover 20 by engaging and screwing them into the vehicle body cover fixing openings 52a, 52b of the side wall 52.
and both outer end receiving pieces 16 of arm piece 15 and arm piece 16
a, 15a are matched, the opening 52
A spacing piece 54c is inserted into portions a and 52b, and the pair of pins 54a protruding from both ends of the gripping member 54 are fitted into predetermined locking openings of the receiving pieces 16a and 15a,
Next, for the screw holes of the receiving pieces 16a, 15a,
A screw 54b is screwed and tightened through the spacer piece 54c and the fixing opening of the gripping member 54 (after tightening with the screw 54b, a cover 54d is attached to the threaded portion of the gripping member 54).

Further, the fixing vehicle body cover fixing piece 53a protrudingly provided on the left and right inner wall surfaces of the rear wall 53 and the protruding piece protruding above the rear end edge are used for fixing the tail light mounting member 55. With the boss portions 55b, 55c and the threaded portion 55d engaged, the boss portion 55a
are directly fixed to the rear cover mounting piece 18, and the other parts are screwed and fixed with screws in the engagement manner described above. In this case, the rear cover mounting piece 1
8 are fixed to the receiving piece 15a and the boss portions 55a, 55b, and 55c.

Furthermore, a lower hinge member 84 constituting a hinge 82 is attached to the seat attachment protrusion 61 attached to the fuel tank 60, and a lower hinge member 83 is attached to the seat 80.
This allows the seat 80 to connect to the fuel tank 6.
Attached to 0.

The seat 80 assembled as described above can be tilted and opened/closed by the hinge 82, and can be opened as necessary.

In this embodiment, as described above, the arm piece 15 that supports the fuel tank 60 and the arm piece 16 that supports the battery box 70 that also serves as an accessory case,
Since the vehicle body cover 50 and the gripping member 54 are integrally fixed, there is no need to separately provide a support member for fixing the vehicle body cover 50, which simplifies the structure and reduces the number of parts and processing/assembly man-hours. be done.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a side view of a scooter-type motorcycle equipped with a body cover mounting structure according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a plan view thereof, and FIGS. 3 and 4 are exploded perspective views of the embodiment. , FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of main parts showing how each member is attached to the upper part of the rear body of the motorcycle, and FIG. 6 is a sectional view taken along the line -- in FIG. 5. 1...Vehicle frame, 2...Head pipe, 3
...Main pipe, 4...Rear body frame, 4a...
... protrusion, 5 ... gusset, 6 ... front fork, 7 ... shock absorber, 8 ... front wheel, 9 ... handle, 10 ... bottom plate, 11 ... power unit, 12 ... rear wheel, 13...arm bar, 14
...Floor plate support member, 15... Arm piece, 15a... Receiving piece, 16... Arm piece, 16a... Receiving piece, 17...
...Reaction support rod, 17a... Protrusion, 18
... Rear cover mounting piece, 19 ... Front fender, 20 ... Center body cover, 21 ... Floor plate,
22... Main pipe cover attachment part, 23... Vertical wall, 23a... Connection hole, 24... Edge, 25...
Mounting piece, 30...Front shield, 31...
Headlight storage section, 32... Auxiliary fender section, 33... Leg shield section, 34... Footrest section, 40... Main pipe cover, 50... Vehicle body cover, 51... Front wall, 51a... Connection piece, 52 ……
Side wall, 52a, 52b...Opening for fixing body cover, 52c...Opening for remote control dial for fuel control, 53...Rear wall, 53a... Piece for fixing body cover, 54...Gripping member, 54a...Pin , 54
b...Screw, 54c...Spacer piece 54d...Cover, 55...Tail light mounting member, 56...Tail light assembly, 60...Fuel tank, 61...Seat mounting protrusion, 62...Cap, 63 ...Oil level gauge installation opening, 64...Cap, 65...
...Fuel gauge mounting part, 66...Fixing protrusion, 67...
...Oil pipe, 68...Fuel pipe, 69...
Fixing protrusion, 70...Battery box that also serves as an accessory case, 71...Fixing protrusion, 72...Screw opening, 80...Seat, 81...Bottom plate, 82...Hinge, 83...Upper hinge member , 84... Lower hinge member, 85... Connection bolt, 86... Vibration absorbing rubber.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A unit swing type power unit is provided behind the low-floor footrest located between the front and rear wheels, the space above the power unit is covered with a vehicle body cover, and a seat is provided on the top of the power unit. In a small scooter-type vehicle, the rear body frame, which extends in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body, has a
Two front and rear arm pieces extending toward the inner wall of the vehicle body cover are attached parallel to each other with a space between them, and accessories such as a fuel tank and battery are supported by the two arm pieces, By bringing the receiving pieces provided at both outer ends of each of the arm pieces into contact with the inner wall of the vehicle body cover, and fixing a grip member to the receiving piece from the outer surface side of the vehicle body cover, the vehicle body cover is also attached. A vehicle body cover mounting structure for a small vehicle characterized by being fixed.