SADDLE-RIDE TYPE FUEL CELL THREE-WHEELED VEHICLE

• Main Authors: IMAO RANJU, NAMIKI YOSHIHIRO, FURUTA SHINJI, WARASHINA TAKUYA, HORII YOSHIYUKI, SAHODA KATSUZO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 09.04.2009
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES PECULIAR TO CYCLES AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR,e.g. ARTICLE CARRIERS, CYCLE PROTECTORS; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS INVEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OFTRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GASEXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS, IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CYCLE AXLE SUSPENSIONS; CYCLE FRAMES; CYCLE SADDLES OR SEATS; CYCLE SIDE-CARS, FORECARS, OR THE LIKE; CYCLE STEERING DEVICES; CYCLES; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT OR PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLEDVEHICLES; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES, IN GENERAL; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; POWERED PROPULSION OF SLEDGES OR; PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSIONOF CHEMICAL INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY; RIDER PROPULSION OF WHEELED VEHICLES OR SLEDGES; RIDER-OPERATED TERMINAL CONTROLS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORCYCLES; TRANSMISSIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR SUCH VEHICLES; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a saddle-ride type fuel cell three-wheeled vehicle that can smoothly discharge generated water of a fuel cell to the outside of a vehicle body without scattering the generated water to the rear wheels or the rear vehicle-body. SOLUTION: A saddle-ride type three-wheeled vehicle 1 is provided with a coupling mechanism 23 that oscillably couples both the front vehicle-body and the rear vehicle-body with each other so that the front vehicle-body 1a can laterally incline relative to the rear vehicle-body 1b pivotally supporting a pair of right and left rear wheels WR. A water distributing pipe is provided so as to guide generated water, discharged from a fuel cell 18, to the outside of the vehicle body. A discharge port 65a of the water distributing pipe is provided between the rear wheels WR. The discharge port 65a is arranged at the rear part and the lower part of an axle 26 of the rear wheels WR as viewed in a side view of the vehicle-body. The water distributing pipe 67 is composed of a first water distributing pipe part (pipe conduits 60, 62) extending up to a storage part 64 at the lower part of the coupling mechanism and a second water distributing pipe part 65 extending from the storage part 64 up to the discharge port 65a. The water distributing pipe is extended to the lower-face side of the rear vehicle-body 1b through the lower part of a shock unit 31. The first/second water distributing pipe parts are made mutually rotatable so as to prevent piping distortion when the front vehicle-body inclines. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT