US 7,549,675 B2
Straddle-type vehicle
Hidenori Satake, Shizuoka (Japan); Satoshi Suzuki, Shizuoka (Japan); Shouichi Kubo, Shizuoka (Japan); Kyouei Miura, Shizuoka (Japan); and Masahiro Noda, Shizuoka (Japan)
Assigned to Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha, Shizuoka (Japan)
Filed on Nov. 08, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/557,933.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-323446 (JP), filed on Nov. 08, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0132225 A1, Jun. 14, 2007
Int. Cl. B60P 3/22 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 280—835  [180/219] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
17. A straddle vehicle comprising:
a body frame including a pair of right and left frames, wherein each of the pair of right and left frames has a mounting portion separated to a right and left;
a fuel tank supported at a front by the body frame, wherein the fuel tank has, at a rear, right and left mounted portions mounted to the mounting portions, and an upwardly projecting recess located between the mounted portions;
a seat disposed behind the fuel tank; and
an air cleaner disposed under the rear of the fuel tank, wherein at least a portion of the air cleaner is positioned between the mounting portions.