JPH01127471A - Cowling device for motorcycle - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To facilitate cowling mounting work so as to improve workability of each assembly line by supporting left and right rear-view mirrors and flasher lamps by the cowling itself. CONSTITUTION: By means of a hood 19 forming an upper cowling 11, left and right rear-view mirrors 31 and flasher lamps 48 are directly supported, so that no bracket and the like on the frame side is required for fixing the rear-view mirrors 31 and the flasher lamps 48, and the rear-mirrors 31 and the flasher lamps 48 can be previously mounted to the cowling 11 so as to be assembled as a subassembly. Therefore, only bolt fastening work for side panel parts 13a, 13b of the cowling 11 is required to a bracket on the frame side, so that the number of man-hours and parts in installation of the cowling 11 can be reduced. In this way, when respective assembly processes for a motorcycle are arranged in line, assembly of the cowling 10 on the line can be facilitated and workability can be improved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a cowling device that covers a handlebar turner of a motorcycle.

[Conventional technology]

In recent years, even mass-produced cars for general driving have tended to be equipped with cowlings in order to meet the requirements for exterior design and to protect the driver from wind and rain. This cowling integrally covers at least the area from around the headlamp to the upper side of the front fork. Conventionally, this cowling could be attached to and detached from the cowling bracket provided at the front end of the frame using screws, etc. installed.

By the way, when attaching left and right rearview mirrors and flasher lamps to a motorcycle equipped with this type of cowling, conventionally these rearview mirrors and flasher lamps are fixed using the above-mentioned cowling bracket.
A cowling bracket is provided with a stem portion that extends to the installation position of a rearview mirror or a 72-piece lamp, and the cowling is integrally fastened to this stem portion.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, in general, motorcycle assembly work is performed continuously with each process arranged in a line. Sometimes it is necessary to install the rearview mirror and 72 tsusha lamp at the same time.

For this reason, there are problems in that the number of parts involved in installing the cowling is extremely large and the assembly work on the line becomes complicated and troublesome.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to enable the installation of a cowling to be carried out easily, and in particular, to arrange each assembly process of a motorcycle in a 2-in configuration. The cowling itself is characterized by supporting the left and right rearview mirrors and flasher lamps.

[Effect]

According to this configuration, since a bracket on the frame side is not required for fixing the rearview mirror and the seven-lash lamp, these rearview mirrors and flasher lamps can be attached to the cowling in advance and assembled as a subassembly. For this reason, it is only necessary to attach the cowling alone to the bracket on the vehicle body side, and the number of work and parts needed to install the cowling is reduced compared to the conventional method. Installing the cowling is easy.

〔Example〕

The present invention will be explained below based on an embodiment shown in the drawings.

Figure 1 shows a motorcycle, where 1 is a frame that constitutes the vehicle body, 2 is a front fork, 3 is a handle, 4 is a front wheel,
5 indicates the engine, 6 indicates the seat, and 7 indicates the rear wheel.
At the front end of the 7 ram l ~rad 9 eve (not shown),
As shown in Fig. 4, a pair of left and right lamps 7--8 extending forward is attached, and a lamp 9 is supported between the tips of the lamp stays 8. . A synthetic resin cowling 10 according to the present invention is fixed to the frame 1.

This cowling 1θ is composed of up cowl 11, up cowl 12, and hoods J9 and K.
This is a full cowl tag that integrally covers the area from the periphery of the headlamp 9 to the periphery of the engine 5. Atsu/l Kakuru 11 has a pair of left and right side panels 13 a
, I , 1 b divided into two parts, headlamp 9
, and integrally covers the upper side of the front fork 2 and the front side of a fuel tank (not shown). The lower edges of the front ends of the side i4 flannel portions 13a and 13b are abutted in front of the front fork 2, and a headlamp 9 is mounted.
Abutting walls 14m and 14b covering the lower side of the lamp stay 8.
Seven flange walls 16a, 16b overlap the upper surface of the bracket 15 attached to the bracket 15 and integrally extend inward. Bolts 17 are inserted into the flange walls 16a and 16b where they overlap with the bracket 15, and nuts z8
It is connected to the bracket 15 by tightening it with K. Further, the hood 19 is attached between the front end upper portions of the four-flange portions 13m and 13b. 7-
The door 19 is curved to have an arcuate cross section, and overlapping walls 20a and 20b are integrally extended on both side edges thereof to overlap the upper surfaces of the flange walls 16a and I6b. Then, the hood 19 is fixed by pushing a bolt 21 through the overlapping part with the flange walls 16a, 16b and tightening it with a nut 22. The head 12 covers the area around the pump 9 between the head 12 and the head 12.

Further, a headlamp rim 23 having a square frame shape is removably attached to a substantially square opening formed by the front end of the up cowl 11 and the hood 19.
The headlamp rim 23 wraps around the front of the front lens 24 of the headlamp 9.

A transparent windscreen 25 is attached to the hood 19. The front half 26 of the windscreen 2s is curved to have an arcuate cross-section along the whiteness of the hood 19, and is superimposed on the upper surface of the hood 19 and adhered thereto. The windscreen 25 is fixed onto the hood 19 by inserting resin screws 27 into the overlapping parts of the front half 26 and the hood 19 and tightening them with nuts 28. The rear portion of the front half 26 of 25 also constitutes a screen portion 29 extending obliquely upward and rearward.

On the other hand, mounting recesses 30 are provided on both sides of the rear end of the upper surface of the 7-door 19, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 6.
Left and right rearview mirrors 31 are fixed to these mounting recesses 30, respectively. The mounting structure of these rearview mirrors 31 is shown in FIGS. 6 and 7. That is, the reference numeral 32 is the mirror bracket, and the hood 1
It is accommodated in the mounting recess 30 of 9. This mirror bracket 32 has a mounting hole 33 formed at the bottom of the mounting recess 30.
It is fixed in the mounting recess 30 by inserting these bolts 34 into the mounting holes 33 and tightening them with nuts 35 from the back side. Further, the center of the mirror bracket 32 is bulged upward to form a support protrusion 36, and a pair of through holes 31 are provided at both ends of the support protrusion 36. Nuts 38 are welded to the back sides of these through holes 32. On the support protrusion 36 of the mirror bracket 32,
A mirror base 40 is attached via the mirror base 40 through the mirror base 40, and bolts 41 are inserted into both ends of the mirror base 40.
This insertion end is fixed onto the support protrusion 36 by screwing it into the nut 38 through the through hole 37. A pair of support walls 42 are erected on the surface of the mirror base 40, spaced apart in the left-right direction, and the base end of the arm 44 is connected between these support walls 42 via a pivot pin 43 in the front-rear direction. It is rotatably supported. This arm 44 is led out from the upper surface of the seat 19 to the left and right sides, and a mirror main body 45 provided with a rear mirror is connected to the distal end of the arm 44 through a bolt 44m so as to be swingable.

And the mounting recess 30 in the windscreen 25
In other words, at the boundary between the front half 26 and the screen section 29, there are cutouts 46 that extend to both side edges of the windscreen 250, and the arms 44 pass through these cutouts 46. ing. Therefore, the parking lot 2-31 is directly supported by the seat x91tc of the cowling 10, and its mirror body 45 is positioned at the same height as the screen portion 29 of the windscreen 25.

Note that the arm 44 of the packer 31 is attached to the packer body 4.
Furthermore, the open end of this ml bellows 47 on the side of the mirror pace 40 is in close contact with the periphery of the notch 46 of the windscreen 25, and the notch 47 is covered by the bellows 47 attached to the windscreen 25. 46 and the fixed portion of the mirror base 40 are covered.

Further, on both the left and right sides of the hood 19, left and right seven lash lamps 48 are supported on both sides of the front half 26 of the windscreen 25. The flasher lamp 48 is equipped with a bracket plate 49 that supports a lens 48m, a light bulb (not shown), and a reflector.
are placed over the left and right sides of the hood 19 from the outside, and are attached to the hood 19 via the screws 56 and nuts 57.
directly supported. Therefore, the bracket plate 49 hides the boundary between the windscreen 25 and the seventh door 19 and the head of the knife 27 that fixes the windscreen 25.

A meter hood 50 is attached to the rear end opening of the hood 19. The meter hood 50 is equipped with a tachometer, a speedometer, etc., not shown.

The hood 19 is designed to cover not only the headlamp 9 but also the various meters mentioned above.

Note that the reference numeral 51 in FIGS. 1 and 3 denotes a body cover 5 that covers from the fuel tank to the lower front end side of the seat 6 from left and right.
2 denotes a tail cowl that extends from the body cover 51 and covers the lower part of the rear end of the seat 6.

According to this configuration, the left and right rearview mirrors 31 and the flasher lamps 48 are directly supported by the hood 19 constituting the upper cowl 11.
1 and the flasher lamp 48 are not required on the 7 frame 1 side, and the rearview mirror 3) and the flasher lamp 48 can be attached to the horn 4 cowl 11 in advance and assembled as a subassembly.

Therefore, for the bracket 15 on the frame 1 side,
Simply the upper cowl 11 site armpit part 13m, 13
All you have to do is tighten the bolts.Compared to the conventional method, Atsuno 4 cowl 11 (Q installation requires fewer man-hours and fewer parts.Therefore, each assembly process of the motorcycle can be done by arranging 2-in. When carrying out the assembly of the cowling 100 on this line, the work can be easily carried out, and there is an advantage that the work efficiency is greatly improved.

In addition, in the above embodiment, the upper cowl is of a left and right split type, but the present invention is not limited to this, and may be of a left and right pair type.
In this case, the hood may also be integrally molded with the upper cowl.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention described in detail above, the rearview mirror and flasher lamp can be attached to the cowling in advance and assembled as a subassembly, so the number of man-hours and number of parts required for attaching the cowling can be reduced compared to the conventional method. It's over. For this reason, especially when each assembly process of a motorcycle is performed by arranging them in a line, it is possible to assemble the cowling on the line with ease, which has the advantage of significantly improving work efficiency.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention, in which Fig. 1 is a side view of the motorcycle, Fig. 2 is a front view, Fig. 3 is a plan view, Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the cowling, and Fig. 5 is an exploded view of the cowling. FIG. 6 is a perspective view, FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of the mounting portion of the rearview mirror, and FIG. 7 is a plan view of the mirror bracket. 1... Vehicle body (frame), 10... Cowling, 1
5...Bracket, 31...Rearview mirror, 48.
...72 Tsusha lamp. Applicant's agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue @2 diagram

Claims (1)

[Claims] A cowling device for a motorcycle, characterized in that a cowling that covers the front of a handle is attached to a bracket provided on a vehicle body, and the cowling itself supports left and right rearview mirrors and flasher lamps.