| US 7,451,857 B2 | ||
| Seat mount structure for saddle ride type vehicle | ||
| Yosuke Hasegawa, Saitama (Japan); Makoto Toda, Saitama (Japan); Yuji Maki, Saitama (Japan); Masahiro Inoue, Saitama (Japan); Hiroaki Tomita, Saitama (Japan); Akio Handa, Saitama (Japan); and Atsuko Yamaguchi, Saitama (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Sep. 02, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/217,345. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2004-257284 (JP), filed on Sep. 03, 2004; and application No. 2004-257350 (JP), filed on Sep. 03, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0049006 A1, Mar. 09, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. B60T 1/06 (2006.01); F16D 55/18 (2006.01); F16D 55/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 188—18A [188/72.4; 188/73.1] | 13 Claims |
| 1. A brake caliper support structure for a saddle-ride all terrain vehicle, comprising:
a hub, said hub being rotatably mounted to a knuckle;
a wheel and a brake disc secured to said hub; and
a disc brake having a brake caliper for braking said brake disc in a sandwiching relation to the brake disc is disposed inside
said wheel, the brake caliper comprising:
a pair of pads for sandwiching said brake disc therebetween;
a piston for pushing said pads;
a caliper body which accommodates said piston movably; and
a caliper bracket secured to a caliper support portion which is provided in said knuckle for supporting said caliper body
movably,
wherein the distance from the center of said wheel to said caliper support portion is set longer than the distance from the
center of said wheel to the center of said piston,
wherein a braking fluid pressure is fed to said brake caliper through a brake hose, right and left vehicular wheels are each
supported independent-suspensionwise by an upper arm and a lower arm, and the knuckle is connected through ball joints to
front ends of said upper arm and said lower arm, and wherein a hose support portion for supporting said brake hose is provided
on a king pin axis extending through the centers of said ball joints.
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