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Title:
LEANING VEHICLE
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2020/261474
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
The present invention provides a leaning vehicle capable of starting an engine with a starter lithium-ion battery over a wide range of temperatures. The leaning vehicle comprises: a wheel that has a tread face for ground contact with a road surface, the cross-sectional shape of the tread face being arc-shaped; an engine that has a crankshaft and that outputs torque for driving the wheel from the crankshaft; a permanent-magnet starter motor that has a permanent magnet and that rotates the crankshaft to start the engine; a starter lithium-ion battery that supplies electric power to the permanent-magnet starter motor at the time of starting the engine; and an electric double-layer capacitor that is connected to the starter lithium-ion battery that supplies electric power to the permanent-magnet starter motor at the time of starting the engine and that has capacitance sufficient to charge the starter lithium-ion battery with an amount of electric power that is sufficient to start the engine with the permanent-magnet starter motor at least once.

Inventors:
HINO HARUYOSHI (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2019/025566
Publication Date:
December 30, 2020
Filing Date:
June 27, 2019
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
YAMAHA MOTOR CO LTD (JP)
International Classes:
F02N11/08; F02N11/04; H02P9/04
Domestic Patent References:
WO2015092886A12015-06-25
WO2018047746A12018-03-15
Foreign References:
JP2016210305A2016-12-15
JP2008306864A2008-12-18
JP3120348U2006-03-30
JP2015192499A2015-11-02
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
TASS MEISTER PATENT FIRM (JP)
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