| US 7,562,737 B2 | ||
| Vehicular power unit supporting apparatus | ||
| Tetsuya Miyahara, Saitama (Japan); Tatsuhide Sakai, Saitama (Japan); Masafumi Kyuse, Saitama (Japan); and Mutsuru Ozaki, Saitama (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Honda Motor Co., Ltd, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on May 02, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/799,712. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2006-129303 (JP), filed on May 08, 2006. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0260377 A1, Nov. 08, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. B60K 1/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 180—291 [180/296; 180/299; 180/300] | 20 Claims |
| 1. A vehicle power unit supporting apparatus that supports a power unit, which is housed in a power unit accommodating chamber
of a vehicle and has a configuration in which a speed reduction gear is connected to an end portion of a power source,
the supporting apparatus comprising:
left and right side mounts that support the power unit on the vehicle body, and respectively disposed on both sides in a vehicle
width direction of the power unit at a position higher than a position of a center of gravity of the power unit such that
the left and right side mounts do not receive the static load of the power unit,
wherein
a spring axis line of the left side mount and a spring axis line of the right side mount are inclined to intersect with each
other at a position higher than the position of the center of gravity of the power unit when the vehicle is viewed from a
front portion thereof, and
an elastic center of the entirety of the power unit supporting apparatus is set to be at a position lower than the position
of the center of gravity of the power unit, whereby a rolling direction of the power unit is adjusted to a rolling direction
of the vehicle body when the vehicle turns.
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