| 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 |

| 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.
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