CN101468690A - Saddle-ride type vehicle with airbag - Google Patents
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A straddle-ride type vehicle includes a head pipe and a seat which is provided to the rear of the head pipe, with a straddle space defined between the steering handlebar and the seat, and an airbag module provided forward of the seat. The airbag module is disposed to the rear of the head pipe to vertically overlap the head pipe in the direction of height thereof and to partially face the straddle space. This increases the flexibility of arranging members provided in the vicinity of a steering handlebar in a saddle-ride type vehicle equipped with an airbag module.
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The cross reference of related application
The application requires the Japanese patent application No.2007-338061 of 30 propositions November in 2007 and the preceence of No.2007-338109 according to the regulation of the 119th of united states patent law, at this two parts of priority documents is incorporated herein by reference in full.
Technical field
The present invention relates to the Straddle-type vehicle that its front portion disposes air bag component.
Background technology
As everyone knows, motor bike disposes the air bag component that expands behind the bump, and it is arranged between the operator's saddle that bar handle that the driver handles and driver take usually.For example, Japanese publication number is the patent documentation (Fig. 5) of No.2005-153613.
Publication number at Fig. 5 is in the Japanese documentation of 2005-153613, is provided with airbag apparatus 21 in the front portion of motor bike.This air bag component 21 connects support 25 by air bag and is set at the approximately middle position of handle 3 (being referred to herein as " bar handle 3 ").
For motor bike, parts such as instrument all be set at bar handle 3 near.If air bag component 21 is arranged on very near the center of bar handle 3, can reduces the alerting ability of parts such as configure instrument greatly.
The configuration structure of air bag component requires it to improve for configuration of components alerting abilitys such as instruments.
It is known disposing the air bag component that expands after can clashing into or the motor bike of analogue, go up about wherein a pair of vehicle frame from the beginning pipe extend back.As publication number (Fig. 9) as described in the Japanese documentation of 2007-69785.
At publication number shown in Figure 9 is in the Japanese documentation of 2007-69785, on manage 2L, 2R (being called " go up vehicle frame 2L, 2R ") and be set to from the beginning to manage 3 and extend back at this.Air bag component 20 is set to cross over the right side that vehicle frame 2L, 2R and air bag ECU35 (being referred to herein as " air bag controlled element 35 ") are set at air bag component 20.At this, airbag apparatus comprises as the air bag component 20 of chief component and air bag control element 35.
For example parts such as instrument are set at the front portion of motor bike.Yet, airbag apparatus is arranged on front part of vehicle can causes not wishing the restriction that takes place configuration of components such as for example instruments.Wish to take a kind of technology to reduce the airbag apparatus occupation space as far as possible.
Summary of the invention
The target of one embodiment of the invention provides a kind of technology, the feasible alerting ability that can improve near arrangement components bar handle in disposing the Straddle-type vehicle of air bag component.
According to one embodiment of present invention, in Straddle-type vehicle, comprise: be arranged on and bring in the head pipe that the bar handle of being handled by the driver is supported in rotation before the body shell, be arranged on head pipe rear portion and be fit to the driver and take thereon operator's saddle.Between bar handle and operator's saddle, limit and stride striding of taking advantage of by the driver and take advantage of the space.Air bag component is set at the place ahead of operator's saddle and takes in air bag therein.Air bag component is set at head pipe rear and part is taken advantage of the space over against striding, and watches from the side to the small part air bag component being set in the vertical width of a pipe.
According to one embodiment of present invention, air bag component is set under the bar handle.
According to one embodiment of present invention, it is outwards outstanding from the outside face of guard shield that the body shell front portion is provided with the rear surface of the guard shield that covers vehicle body and air bag component.
According to one embodiment of present invention, body shell comprise a pair of from the beginning manage top downwards and extend back about go up vehicle frame and a pair of from the beginning manage the bottom downwards and extend back about vehicle frame down.Air bag component is set at the inside of the left and right sides external width of the outside of left and right sides external width of vehicle frame and following vehicle frame with respect to the left and right side at center, front and back.
According to one embodiment of present invention, air bag component be box-type and the air bag component rear surface on left and right sides ora terminalis fallen to be the inclined-plane.
According to one embodiment of present invention, air bag component is box-type and the following ora terminalis of air bag component rear surface is fallen to be the inclined-plane.
According to one embodiment of present invention, air bag component is set at head pipe untapped space, rear and partly takes advantage of the space over against striding.In addition, see from the side that air bag component to small part is arranged in the vertical width of a pipe.This makes and is difficult to the layout that influence is configured near the parts of bar handle.By reducing, can improve near the alerting ability of arrangement components bar handle to being configured near the influence of the component layouts the bar handle.
According to one embodiment of present invention, air bag component is set under the bar handle.Therefore, can further improve bar handle and near design flexibility thereof.
According to one embodiment of present invention, because air bag occupation space in the guard shield from guard shield rear surface projection, therefore can be reduced in the air bag component rear surface.Therefore, can improve the layout alerting ability of other parts in the guard shield.
According to one embodiment of present invention, air bag component is set at the outside of vehicle frame with respect to the left and right side at center, front and back.Like this, air bag component can guarantee to have enough lateral lengths.Therefore, air bag can smoothly launch to opposite side from a side.
In addition, because air bag is set at down the inside of the left and right sides external width of vehicle frame with respect to the left and right side at center, front and back, can avoid increasing vehicle width.In other words, the width of air bag being made as one optimizes width and can reach balance between the compactness of enough extensibility of air bag and air bag component.
According to one embodiment of present invention, because air bag component is box-type and the left and right sides ora terminalis of air bag component rear surface is become the inclined-plane, therefore enlarged to stride and taken advantage of the space.In addition, owing to guaranteed that enough big striding take advantage of the space, therefore vehicle becomes and is more prone to and has increased the driver ride over comfort level on the vehicle up and down.
According to one embodiment of present invention, because air bag component is box-type and the following ora terminalis of air bag component rear surface is become the inclined-plane, therefore further enlarged to stride and taken advantage of the space.Like this, guaranteed that enough big striding taken advantage of the space to make vehicle up and down become to be more prone to and the comfort level when further having increased vehicle up and down.
The target of one embodiment of the invention is to propose the alerting ability that a kind of technology is come mode with compactness to dispose airbag apparatus and is increased near the arrangement components air bag component.
According to one embodiment of present invention, Straddle-type vehicle comprises that rotating the head that supports bar handle manages, and it has the air bag component of taking in air bag and the air bag controlled element of controlling airbag deployment.Air bag component is arranged on the rear of a pipe, and the air bag controlled element is arranged on the side of the lateral direction of car of a pipe, and if watch vehicle from behind, at least a portion and air bag component are overlapping.
According to one embodiment of present invention, thereby a pipe is tilted the place ahead that its lower end of setting is positioned at the upper end, and if watch vehicle, air bag controlled element to be set at the rear of the front end of head pipe bottom from the side.
According to one embodiment of present invention, being provided with a space at the rear of air bag controlled element makes the air bag controlled element to move therein.
According to one embodiment of present invention, air bag component and air bag control element are set to have certain deviation on short transverse.
According to one embodiment of present invention, if watch vehicle from the side, the center shaft of the center shaft of air bag component and air bag control element is axial arranged along a pipe.
According to one embodiment of present invention, the lock core that is used to connect or close vehicle power source is set at a side of two sides of head pipe, and the air bag controlled element is arranged on opposite side, and a pipe occupy between the two.
According to one embodiment of present invention, if watch vehicle from behind, the air bag controlled element is set to small part and air bag component overlapping, has limited the lateral length of airbag apparatus.Therefore, airbag apparatus can compact mode dispose.This just provides the space for arrangement components.Like this, can improve near the alerting ability of arrangement components airbag apparatus.
According to embodiments of the invention, a pipe is obliquely installed and makes its lower end be positioned at the place ahead of upper end, and if watch vehicle, air bag controlled element to be arranged on the rear of front end of the bottom of a pipe from the side.Like this, when vehicle was subjected to the external force in the place ahead, the front end of the bottom of a pipe at first stood this external force.Because the front end of the bottom of a pipe is subjected to this external force, therefore be difficult to this external force is passed to the air bag controlled element.
According to one embodiment of present invention, the rear of air bag controlled element is provided with the space that the air bag controlled element can move therein.Like this, even the air bag controlled element is subjected to external force and moves backward, it still is accommodated in this space, and therefore, the air bag controlled element is not vulnerable to the influence of external force.
According to one embodiment of present invention, air bag component and air bag control element are set to have certain deviation on short transverse.Like this, even the air bag controlled element is subjected to external force and moves backward from the place ahead, the air bag controlled element also is difficult for interfering with air bag component.
According to one embodiment of present invention, when watching vehicle from the side, the center shaft of the center shaft of air bag component and air bag control element is along the axial setting of a pipe.Because air bag component and air bag control element are axially aligned with a pipe, therefore near the structure the head pipe can be configured to simple and compact.
According to one embodiment of present invention, the lock core that is used to connect or close Vehicle Power is set at a side of two sides of head pipe, the air bag controlled element is arranged on opposite side, and a pipe is positioned between the two, and therefore the space of a side relative with lock core can be used effectively.
The further field of application of the present invention will be clearer from the following detailed description.Yet, be understandable that and describe in detail and object lesson, pointed out preferred implementation of the present invention, but it only is used for illustration, and various changes and modification that this detailed description is carried out within spirit of the present invention and scope all are conspicuous to those skilled in the art.
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With easier to understand, these are described and accompanying drawing just is used for illustration, are not intended to limit the invention, wherein in conjunction with the following detailed description and accompanying drawing the present invention
Fig. 1 is the left side view according to Straddle-type vehicle of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is the birds-eye view according to the major part of Straddle-type vehicle of the present invention;
Fig. 3 is the lateral plan that the main car frame of airbag apparatus is installed according to of the present invention;
Fig. 4 is the birds-eye view that the main car frame of airbag apparatus is installed according to of the present invention;
Fig. 5 is the back view that the main car frame of airbag apparatus is installed according to of the present invention;
Fig. 6 is the birds-eye view that is used to help to illustrate the configuration relation between air bag component and guard shield;
Fig. 7 is the cross sectional drawing along the hatching 7-7 of Fig. 6;
Fig. 8 (a) and 8 (b) are the cross sectional drawings along the hatching 8-8 of Fig. 2;
Fig. 9 (a) and 9 (b) are the cross sectional drawings along the hatching 9-9 of Fig. 2;
Figure 10 (a) and 10 (b) are the work scheme drawings (initial time from the cruising to the airbag deployment) according to airbag apparatus of the present invention;
Thereby Figure 11 helps the be opened cross sectional drawing of deployment balloon of the upper surface of explanation air bag; With
Figure 12 is the work scheme drawing (in the finish time of airbag deployment) according to airbag apparatus of the present invention.
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Introduce the best execution pattern of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings.What in the accompanying drawings, each term " the place ahead ", " back side or rear ", " left ", " right-hand ", " top ", " below " referred to all is the direction of watching from driver's angle.Should be noted that these accompanying drawings should watch based on the direction of Reference numeral or reference symbol.
Fig. 1 is the left side view according to Straddle-type vehicle of the present invention.Motor scooter 10A as a kind of Straddle-type vehicle comprises body shell 11 and the engine installation 12 as propulsion source that is hung by body shell 11.
Back vehicle frame 15 comprises, as constituent elements, vehicle seat rail 21L, 21R (have only demonstrated the mark 21L in the place ahead, be used for following introduction equally), middle vehicle frame 23L, 23R (have only demonstrated the mark 23L in the place ahead, be used for following introduction equally) and seat rail pillar 24L, 24R (only demonstrated the mark 24L in the place ahead, be used for following introduction equally).Vehicle seat rail 21L and 21R are respectively from last vehicle frame 17L and 17R rear portion separately backward and the extension that is inclined upwardly.Middle vehicle frame 23L is connected the vehicle seat rail 21L of the rear end that has last vehicle frame 17L and 17R separately and mid point 22L and the 22R (only demonstrated the mark 22L in the place ahead, be used for following introduction equally) of 22R respectively with 23R.During seat rail pillar 24L and 24R are connected across respectively between the rear portion of the top of vehicle frame 23L and vehicle seat rail 21L and between the rear portion of the top of middle vehicle frame 23R and vehicle seat rail 21R.
Steering shaft 25 is arranged on the leading section that has constituted body shell 11 on the head pipe 13.Be diverted the upper end rotation support of axle 25 by the bar handle 26 of driver's manipulation.When watching from above, front fork 31L, 31R (only demonstrated the mark 31L in the place ahead, be used for following introduction equally) are connected to the lower end of steering shaft 25 by normally leg-of-mutton bottom girder 27.Front-wheel 32 is rotatably installed between the lower end of front fork 31L, 31R.
Pivot plate 33L and 33R (only demonstrated the mark 33L in the place ahead, be used for following introduction equally) be connected across between vehicle seat rail 21L and the vehicle frame 23L respectively and vehicle seat rail 21R and middle vehicle frame 23R between.Pivot plate 33L, 33R have the transom 34 of downward extension separately.Transom 34 has strut bar 35.Engine installation 12 as rear-swing arm is installed in the mode of vertical oscillation by strut bar 35.Be rotatably installed in the rearward end of engine installation 12 as the trailing wheel 36 of drive wheel.Be used for absorbing from the after vibration resorber 37L of ground-surface vibration and 37R (only demonstrated the mark 37L in the place ahead, be used for following introduction equally) respectively across between engine installation 12 and the vehicle seat rail 21L and between engine installation 12 and the vehicle seat rail 21R.
Operator's saddle 42 is installed in the upper surface of vehicle seat rail 21L, 21R.
Operator's saddle 42 is set at the rear of head pipe 13.The driver strides striding of taking advantage of and takes advantage of space 43 to be formed between the operator's saddle 42 that head pipe 13 rotatably supported bar handles 26 and driver take.The air bag component 44 of taking in air bag is installed in the place ahead of operator's saddle 42.
In this embodiment, air bag component 44 is arranged under the bar handle 26.Therefore, bar handle 26 and design flexibility on every side thereof can be improved.More particularly, the flexible arrangement with respect to bar handle 26 and near parts thereof is improved.
In addition, the 44z of air bag component 44 partly is set to take advantage of space 43 over against striding.
Engine installation 12 comprises conveyer 46 with belt conveyer and the driving engine 47 that extends forward from the front end of conveyer 46.
Driving engine 47 is multiple-cylinder water-cooled four cycle engines, and wherein cylinder block 51, cylinder head 52, cylinder-cover jacket 53 are installed on the conveyer 46 in regular turn.Aircleaning facility 55 is connected with the upper surface of cylinder head 52 by air inlet pipe 54.Freeing pipe 56 is connected with the lower surface of cylinder head 52.
In Fig. 1, be provided be used for the heat abstractor 57 of cooled engine 47 and preceding disc brake apparatus 58, front brake disc 61, cover from the place ahead the front protection cover 62 of vehicle, the main guard shield 63 that covers vehicular sideview, rear shield 64, handrail 64G, front fender apron 65, rear mudguard 66, with the rear end bonded assembly noise silencer 67 and the main support 68 of freeing pipe 56.
Fig. 2 is the birds-eye view according to the main portion of Straddle-type vehicle of the present invention.
Above-mentioned air bag component 44 is arranged on the rear of head pipe 13.The air bag controlled element 71 that is used for controlling the airbag deployment that is accommodated in air bag component 44 is arranged on the left side of head pipe 13.Lock core 72 is arranged on the right side of head pipe 13.When the power of vehicle is switched on or closes, will lock and insert in the lock core 72.
The head pipe 13, air bag component 44 and the air bag control element 71 that constitute body shell 11 front portions are used as front protection cover 62 coverings of guard shield 45 1 component parts.The 44z of air bag component 44 partly is set to take advantage of space 43 from the rear surface 62b as the front protection cover 62 of guard shield 45 outside face 45a over against striding.Be set at as the main guard shield 63 of 45 1 component parts of guard shield and stride the below of taking advantage of space 43 and cover main car frame 14.Operator's saddle 42 is arranged on the rear of air bag component 44.Pedal 73L and 73R are separately positioned on the bottom on operator's saddle 42 left sides and right side.Each pedal 73L, 73R have a common horizontal surface is placed pin as the driver shelf.Rear shield 64 covers vehicle rear from the left and right sides of operator's saddle 42.That is to say that guard shield 45 is the outside faces that cover the parts of body shell 11 and constituted vehicle.In addition, front protection cover 62, main guard shield 63 and rear shield 64 have rearward been formed guard shield 45 according to this order from the place ahead of vehicle.
Be provided with the left and right sides air bag fixed parts (only demonstrated the mark 74L in the place ahead, be used for following introduction equally) that is labeled as 74L and 74R respectively, when airbag inflation launches, air bag remained on its desired location separately.
In Fig. 2, crossbeam 84 is connected across down between vehicle frame 18L and the 18R.
Provided following configuration of components in the following description: constitute airbag apparatus 77 air bag component 44, main car frame 14, be connected air bag fixed parts 74L, the 74R between the air bag component 44 and be used for controlling the air bag controlled element 71 of airbag deployment, referring to Fig. 3 to Fig. 5.
Fig. 3 is the lateral plan that the main car frame of airbag apparatus is installed according to of the present invention.Be provided with the support 78 that extends from the roughly top of last vehicle frame 17L, 17R.Air bag component 44 is installed on the support 78.Air bag component 44 has following ora terminalis 44s.
End 74La separately and the 74Ra (only demonstrated the mark 74La in the place ahead, be used for following introduction equally) of air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R are fixed on air bag component 44.Another end 74Lb separately of air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R and 74Rb (only demonstrated the mark 74Lb in the place ahead, be used for following introduction equally) are separately fixed at transom 19L and 19R.Air bag fixed parts 74L and 74R will introduce afterwards in detail.As shown in Figure 3, be provided with connection stay 80L, 80R (only demonstrated the mark 80L in the place ahead, be used for following introduction equally), one of them is connected between vehicle frame 17L and the following vehicle frame 18L, and another is connected between vehicle frame 17R and the following vehicle frame 18R.
Fig. 4 is the birds-eye view that the main car frame of airbag apparatus is installed according to of the present invention.Body shell 11 comprise a pair of from the beginning manage 13 top downwards and extend back about go up vehicle frame 17L, 17R and a pair of from the beginning manage 13 bottom downwards and extend back about vehicle frame 18L, 18R down.If watch body shell 11 from the top, with respect to front and back center C P, left and right side 44c, the 44d of air bag component 44 is arranged on left and right sides external width Wu outside of vehicle frame 17L, 17R and the inside of the left and right sides external width Ws of vehicle frame 18L, 18R down.
The left and right side 44c of air bag component 44 and 44d are arranged on the outside of vehicle frame 17L, 17R; Therefore, can guarantee that air bag component 44 has enough lateral lengths.Therefore, when it launched, air bag can launch (referring to the mark 85 of Fig. 7 of subsequent introduction) smoothly from a side direction opposite side.
Because the left and right side 44c of air bag component 44 and the inside of the left and right sides external width Ws that 44d is arranged on down vehicle frame 18L, 18R; Therefore, avoided enlarging the width of vehicle.That is to say, thereby the lateral length that the outside lateral length Wa of air bag component 44 is set to an optimization meets the following Wu of relation＜Wa＜Ws.Can between the sufficient ductility of air bag component 44 and compactness, reach balance like this.
Air bag controlled element 71 is arranged on the side of the lateral direction of car of head pipe 13.More particularly, being provided with stay 79 from the beginning manages 13 and extends left and air bag controlled element 71 is fixed on the stay 79.
Impulsive force at first is transmitted manages 13 lower end 13b or front end 13d to the end and is absorbed.This makes this impulsive force be difficult to be sent to air bag controlled element 71.If like this, so can protect air bag controlled element 71.
Referring to Fig. 3 and Fig. 4, air bag component 44 and air bag control element 71 are set to have certain skew each other on short transverse.
Be formed with the space 81 that air bag controlled element 71 can move therein at the rear of air bag controlled element 71.Just because of this, move even air bag controlled element 71 is subjected to impacting backward, it still is incorporated in the mobile space 81 of air bag controlled element 71.Therefore make air bag controlled element 71 not be vulnerable to the external force influence.
If watch vehicle from the side, the center shaft 44c of air bag component 44 and the center shaft 71c of air bag center part 71 are parallel to the direction setting of the axle 13c of head pipe 13.Because air bag component 44 and air bag control element 71 are parallel to the direction setting of the axle 13c of head pipe 13, near the structure the head pipe 13 can be simplified and be tightr.
This to left and right sides air bag fixed parts 74L and 74R be connected on the air bag (referring to the mark 85 of Fig. 7 of subsequent introduction) thus air bag 85 expand and the process launched in air bag 85 is remained on position over against the driver.This air bag fixed parts 74L and 74R are connected on the main car frame 14 by transom 19L and 19R respectively.
Air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R are provided with along main car frame 14.In addition, as the rear end 75L of the 74Lb of the other end separately of air bag fixed parts 74L and 74R and 74Rb with 75R (only having demonstrated the mark 75L in the place ahead) is connected to transom 19L by retainer 86L and 86R (only demonstrated the mark 86L in the place ahead, be used for following introduction equally) respectively and 19R goes up and by bolt 87,87 fixed retainer 86L and 86R.
In addition, air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R can be by being made as same resin fibre linear slit that vehicle safety belt is made or can reasonably using with air bag 85 identical materials and make.The material of air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R, structure, cross sectional shape etc. can arbitrarily be provided with as long as it has predetermined function and the intensity of having considered factors such as secular variation.
In the present embodiment, air bag fixed parts 74L is connected with 19R with transom 19L respectively with 74Rb with 74R other end 74Lb separately.Yet the position separately of the other end 74Lb of air bag fixed parts 74L and 74R and 74Rb can change according to vehicle type in some cases.In this case, the connection location separately of the other end 74Lb of air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R and 74Rb and transom 19L, 19R can change to the optional position.Therefore, when being installed to dissimilar vehicles, can suppress airbag apparatus 77 rise of vehicle cost.
Fig. 5 is the back view that the main car frame of airbag apparatus is installed according to of the present invention.When vehicle is watched at the rear, air bag controlled element 71 is set to small part and air bag component 44 overlapping.
Referring again to Fig. 4, air bag component 44 forms box-shaped.In addition, being positioned at the left and right sides ora terminalis 44p of air bag component 44 rear surface 44e and 44q is cut into the inclined-plane respectively and forms left chamfered portion 44g and right chamfered portion 44h.Therefore, can enlarge to stride and take advantage of space 43.Owing to guaranteed that enough striding take advantage of space 43, can further facilitate and get on or off the bus and improve the driver and sit onboard comfort level.
In the side of head pipe 13, the lock core 72 that is used to connect or close vehicle power source is arranged on its right side, i.e. a side.In addition, air bag controlled element 71 is arranged on its left side, i.e. opposite side is in the middle of head pipe 13 is positioned at.Like this, the space (referring to the mark 82 of Fig. 4) that is positioned at lock core 72 relative sides can be utilized effectively.
Fig. 6 is the birds-eye view that is used to help to illustrate the configuration relation between air bag component and the guard shield.Be arranged on the front portion 83 of vehicle as the front protection cover 62 of guard shield.The rear surface 44e of air bag component 44 is from the outwards outstanding outside face that forms front protection cover 62 of rear surface 62b.
The rear surface 44e that constitutes air bag component 44 parts is outstanding backward from the outside face of guard shield 62.Therefore reduced the inner space of the front protection cover 62 that air bag component 44 takies.Therefore, can improve the alerting ability of in front protection cover 62, arranging other parts.
Fig. 7 is the cross sectional drawing along the hatching 7-7 of Fig. 6.The air bag component 44 of taking in air bag 85 comprises, as the main composition parts, and incorporating section 91, folding and leave air bag 85 in the incorporating section 91 in; Be used to expand with generation and the aerator 92 of the gas of deployment balloon 85.
Incorporating section 91 comprises bottom 93; Frame portion 94 comprises the left and right side (referring to mark 44c, the 44d of Fig. 4) of the 93 rear surface 44e that upwards lift and component part air bag component 44 from the bottom; With cap 95 from last covering frame portion 94.Thereby when having formed notch 96 in the middle of frame portion 94 and the cap 95, be easy to open cap 95 from frame portion 94 when air bag 85 expansions and expansion.Notch 96 forms on cap 95 and extends along frame portion 94.And thereby the otch 97 inside face 62n that is formed on front protection cover 62 goes up and to make air bag 85 expansion of can expanding.
Between rear surface 44e and air bag 85, be provided with dividing plate 151.Air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R is partially folded and be accommodated in dividing plate 151 and rear surface 44 between.
As shown in Figure 3, by using a pair of left and right sides air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R that air bag 85 is connected on the main car frame 14 and air bag 85 being remained on position over against the driver.In addition, air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R are provided with along main car frame 14.
This is provided with along main car frame 14 left and right sides air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R.Therefore, when air bag 85 expands and launch, in the air bag fixed parts 74L, the 74R that are provided with along main car frame 14, at first lifted as separately front end 76L, 76R with air bag fixed parts 74L, the 74R of air bag 85 bonded assembly connecting portions.Along with the carrying out of the expansion and the expansion of air bag 85, air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R lift towards rear end 75L, 75R from front end 76L, the 76R of air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R.As mentioned above because air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R be respectively along last vehicle frame 17L, the 17R layout of forming main car frame 14, so air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R can be on expansion direction smooth guide air bag 85.
Fig. 8 (a) and 8 (b) are the cross sectional drawings along the hatching 8-8 among Fig. 2.
In Fig. 8 (a), air bag fixed parts 74L covers along the main guard shield 63 that the space R that forms between main car frame 14 and the guard shield 45 is provided with and main car frame 14 is used as guard shield 45 component parts.
Air bag fixed parts 74L is along being provided with as the space R that forms between the last vehicle frame 17L of main car frame 14 component parts and the main guard shield 63.In addition, the inside face 63n of main guard shield 63 forms two fragility portions 101 along air bag fixed parts 74L and makes air bag fixed parts 74L can play a role smoothly the air bag working process from a side to opposite side.
In addition two left and right sides fragility portions 101,101 have been formed notch 96P and 96Q respectively, its degree of depth is DP1＜DQ1, and the degree of depth of wherein outer notch 96P is DP1, and the degree of depth of interior notch 96Q is DQ1.
During airbag apparatus 77 inoperatives, air bag fixed parts 74L is covered by guard shield 45 (main guard shield 63).Because air bag fixed parts 74L is covered by front protection cover 62, so the outward appearance of vehicle is gratifying.
In Fig. 8 (b), because interior otch depth D Q1 greater than outer otch depth D P1, therefore in the working process of airbag apparatus 77 following situation can take place.Air bag fixed parts 74L moves along the direction of arrow h and collides and the inside face 63n of the main guard shield 63 of extruding.This makes winner's guard shield 63 cause fracture on the interior notch 96Q and be lifted around outer notch 96P along the direction of arrow j, so makes and formed an opening 99 on the guard shield 45.Air bag fixed parts 74L can pass opening 99 and move along the direction of arrow h.
The air bag fixed parts 74R that is arranged on the vehicle right side is identical with structure and the function of the air bag fixed parts 74L that is arranged on the left side; Therefore, omitted description to it.
Further, the inside face 62n as the front protection cover 62 of guard shield 45 inside face 45n forms fragility portion 101 along air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R.Like this, when air bag 85 launched, air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R bump guard shield 45 inside face 62n went up the corresponding fragility portion 101 that forms, and because this fragility portion 101 has formed opening 99 in guard shield 45.In addition, air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R withdraw from 45 along fragility portion 101 from guard shield.Like this, air bag 85 can smoothly launch, and can not interrupt in its expansion process.
That is to say, though left and right sides air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R by guard shield 45 from last covering, needs the time be engraved on the guard shield 45 and also can form opening 99.Like this, just can be on expansion direction smooth guide air bag 85, guard shield 45 can be to the mobile obstruction that causes of left and right sides air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R.
Fig. 9 (a) and 9 (b) are the cross sectional drawings along the hatching 9-9 of Fig. 2.Air bag fixed parts 74L is provided with along the space R between main car frame 14 and the guard shield 45.
In Fig. 9 (a), during the inoperative of airbag apparatus 77, air bag fixed parts 74L is covered by guard shield 45 (main guard shield 63).
In Fig. 9 (b), in case airbag apparatus 77 is started working, air bag fixed parts 74L moves the inside face 63n that clashes into main guard shield 63 along the direction of arrow k.This makes winner's guard shield 63 cause fracture at interior notch 96Q place and is lifted around outer notch 96P along the direction of arrow m, so makes guard shield 45 form an opening 99.Air bag fixed parts 74L can pass opening 99 and move along the direction of arrow k.
What have bigger difference with Fig. 8 a bit is that the direction that is provided with among direction and Fig. 8 of air bag fixed parts 74L is different.The 26S Proteasome Structure and Function of other 26S Proteasome Structure and Function and Fig. 8 is not very different.
In addition, the air bag fixed parts 74R that is arranged on the vehicle right side is identical with the 26S Proteasome Structure and Function of the air bag fixed parts 74L that is arranged on vehicle left side, therefore it is described and omits.
Below will introduce the working process of above-mentioned Straddle-type vehicle.
Figure 10 (a) and 10 (b) are the work scheme drawings (begin from the cruising to the air bag launch process) according to airbag apparatus of the present invention.
In Figure 10 (a), in the off working state of airbag apparatus 77, air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R leave in the front protection cover 62 as guard shield 45.
In Figure 10 (b), when airbag apparatus 77 work, air bag 85 expands and launches.Simultaneously, owing to air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R adjacency, the air bag fixed parts 74L, the 74R that are connected on the air bag 85 outwards shift out the opening 99 that is formed between the notch (referring to the mark 96P and the 96Q of Fig. 8 and 9).
Thereby Figure 11 helps the be opened cross sectional drawing of deployment balloon of the upper surface of explanation air bag component.
When air bag 85 expands when launching, the air bag 85 of expansion from being formed on the notch (referring to the mark 96A of Fig. 7) on the incorporating section 91 thus lifting cap 95 along the direction of arrow c forms peristome 99A.In addition, the air bag 85 of expansion is from the otch 97 that is formed on the front protection cover 62 lifts front protection cover 62 along the direction of arrow d rear portion.Therefore, air bag 85 launches along the direction of arrow e.Owing to have notch (referring to mark among Fig. 7 96) and in front protection cover 62, have otch 97 in the incorporating section 91, so air bag 85 can smoothly launch in the moment of needs.
At this moment, along with the expansion of air bag 85, folding and leave that air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R between dividing plate 151 and the rear surface 44 begins to extend in and rear surface 44e along with the expansion of air bag 85 direction of arrow f in the figure moves.
Figure 12 is the diagram of work (in the finish time of airbag deployment) according to airbag apparatus of the present invention.Air bag 85 is unfolded and clashes into the front portion of driver H.At this moment, along with the expansion of air bag 85, be accommodated in air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R in the guard shield 45 and from guard shield 45, come out and air bag 85 is remained on suitable position, driver H the place ahead.
Referring to Fig. 1 and 2, air bag component 44 is arranged in the unappropriated space 102, rear portion of pipe 13 and gives prominence to enter to stride and take advantage of space 43.Therefore, can near bar handle 26, assurance form a space.Guarantee to form this space and then be difficult to the layout that influence is configured near the parts the bar handle 26.Owing in Straddle-type vehicle 10, provide an air bag component 44 to be not easy to influence to be configured near the layout of the parts bar handle 26, therefore can improve near the alerting ability of bar handle 26 component configuration.
Referring to Fig. 5, because from behind when watching vehicle, air bag controlled element 71 is set to small part and air bag component 44 overlapping.Therefore, can limit airbag apparatus 77 in horizontal length.This can improve the alerting ability of its component configuration.
Referring to Fig. 8 to 12, this is provided with along main car frame 14 left and right sides air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R.When air bag 85 expands expansion, in air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R, as at first being lifted with the air bag fixed parts 74L of air bag 85 bonded assembly connecting portions, front end 76L, the 76R of 74R.Along with the expansion expansion of air bag 85, air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R are lifted towards rear end 75L, 75R from front end 76L, the 76R of air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R.As mentioned above, owing to air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R are provided with along main car frame 14, so air bag fixed parts 74L, 74R can be along expansion direction smooth guide air bags 85.
In addition, embodiments of the invention have also been described the motor scooter as Straddle-type vehicle.Yet similar vehicles such as three-wheel vehicle also are suitable for.
According to embodiments of the invention, air bag component can be arranged on rear, the place ahead or the top of bar handle.
According to embodiments of the invention, the rear surface of air bag component can be set to not outstanding from the outside face of guard shield.
According to embodiments of the invention, the lateral length of air bag component can be made as arbitrary value.
According to embodiments of the invention, the left and right sides ora terminalis that is arranged on the air bag component rear surface can not become the inclined-plane.
According to embodiments of the invention, the following ora terminalis that is arranged on the air bag component rear surface can not become the inclined-plane.
The present invention is applicable to motor scooter.
According to embodiments of the invention, if watch vehicle from the side, the air bag controlled element can be arranged on the place ahead of head pipe bottom.
According to embodiments of the invention, can omit the space that the air bag controlled element moves backward.
According to embodiments of the invention, can air bag component and the air bag control element be set in not skew of short transverse.
According to embodiments of the invention, thereby center shaft axially extending along a pipe when watching vehicle from the side of the center shaft and the air bag control element of air bag component can be set.
According to embodiments of the invention, lock core and air bag control element can be arranged on the same side in the head pipe both sides.
The present invention has been carried out above-mentioned description, and clearly it can have multiple variation pattern.These variations can not be considered to break away from spirit of the present invention and scope, and all modifications all are conspicuous to those skilled in the art and are included among the scope of following claim.
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1, a kind of Straddle-type vehicle comprises:
Be installed in body shell front end and rotation and support the head pipe of bar handle;
Be installed in head pipe rear and be fit to the vehicle seat that the driver takes;
Be limited to striding between bar handle and the vehicle seat and take advantage of the space; With
Be installed in the air bag component that vehicle seat the place ahead is used to take in air bag;
Wherein air bag component is arranged on head pipe rear and part and takes advantage of the space and ought watch from the side up to the small part air bag component and being arranged within the vertical width of a pipe over against striding.
2, Straddle-type vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein air bag component is arranged under the bar handle.
3, Straddle-type vehicle as claimed in claim 1, it is outwards outstanding from the outside face of guard shield that wherein the front portion of body shell is provided with the rear surface of the guard shield that is used to cover vehicle body and air bag component.
4, Straddle-type vehicle as claimed in claim 2, it is outwards outstanding from the outside face of guard shield that wherein the front portion of body shell is provided with the rear surface of the guard shield that is used to cover vehicle body and air bag component.
5, Straddle-type vehicle as claimed in claim 1,
Wherein body shell comprise a pair of from the beginning manage top downwards and extend back about go up vehicle frame and a pair of from the beginning manage the bottom downwards and extend back about vehicle frame down; With
Wherein air bag component the left and right side be set at the inside of the left and right sides external width of the outside of left and right sides external width of vehicle frame and following vehicle frame with respect to the center, front and back.
6, Straddle-type vehicle as claimed in claim 2,
Wherein body shell comprise a pair of from the beginning manage top downwards and extend back about go up vehicle frame and a pair of from the beginning manage the bottom downwards and extend back about vehicle frame down; With
Wherein the left and right side of air bag component is set at the inside of the left and right sides external width of the outside of left and right sides external width of vehicle frame and following vehicle frame with respect to the center, front and back.
7, Straddle-type vehicle as claimed in claim 3,
Wherein body shell comprise a pair of from the beginning manage top downwards and extend back about go up vehicle frame and a pair of from the beginning manage the bottom downwards and extend back about vehicle frame down; With
Wherein the left and right side of air bag component is set at the inside of the left and right sides external width of the outside of left and right sides external width of vehicle frame and following vehicle frame with respect to the center, front and back.
8, Straddle-type vehicle as claimed in claim 3, wherein air bag component be box-type and the air bag component rear surface on left and right sides ora terminalis become the inclined-plane.
9, Straddle-type vehicle as claimed in claim 3, wherein air bag component be box-type and the air bag component rear surface on following ora terminalis become the inclined-plane.
10, Straddle-type vehicle as claimed in claim 5, wherein air bag component be box-type and the air bag component rear surface on following ora terminalis become the inclined-plane.
11, a kind of Straddle-type vehicle comprises:
The head pipe of bar handle is supported in rotation;
Take in the air bag component of air bag; With
The air bag controlled element of control airbag deployment;
Wherein air bag component be set at a pipe the rear and
The air bag controlled element be set at a pipe lateral direction of car the side and ought watch vehicle overlapping from behind up to small part and air bag component.
12, Straddle-type vehicle as claimed in claim 11, thus wherein a pipe be tilted be provided with its lower end be positioned at the upper end the place ahead and
When watching vehicle from the side, the air bag controlled element is set at the rear of the front end of head pipe bottom.
13, Straddle-type vehicle as claimed in claim 11 wherein is provided with a space that allows the air bag controlled element to move therein at the rear of air bag controlled element.
14, Straddle-type vehicle as claimed in claim 12 wherein is provided with a space that allows the air bag controlled element to move therein at the rear of air bag controlled element.
15, Straddle-type vehicle as claimed in claim 11, wherein air bag component and air bag control element are set to have certain deviation on short transverse.
16, Straddle-type vehicle as claimed in claim 12, wherein air bag component and air bag control element are set to have certain deviation on short transverse.
17, Straddle-type vehicle as claimed in claim 13, wherein air bag component and air bag control element are set to have certain deviation on short transverse.
18, Straddle-type vehicle as claimed in claim 11, wherein when watching vehicle from the side, the center shaft of the center shaft of air bag component and air bag control element is along the axial setting of a pipe.
19, Straddle-type vehicle as claimed in claim 12, wherein when watching vehicle from the side, the center shaft of the center shaft of air bag component and air bag control element is along the axial setting of a pipe.
20, Straddle-type vehicle as claimed in claim 11, a side and an air bag controlled element that the lock core that wherein is used for connecting or close vehicle power source is arranged on head pipe both sides are arranged on opposite side, and a pipe is between the two.
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