Motorcycle Cover Protector for Vibration Suppression
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Solution Overview
Problem
Naked-type motorcycles with divided vehicle body covers face challenges in securing rigidity due to low coupling points, leading to vibration and abrasion issues at the outer edge portions, which existing solutions fail to adequately address.
Innovation Solution
A saddle-type vehicle design featuring a protector with first and second attachment portions that connect adjacent vehicle body cover parts at their outer edges, forming a recessed shape and being fixed by a fixing portion, thereby enhancing coupling strength and suppressing vibration and noise.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the vehicle body cover is divided into multiple parts, then the adaptability to different design demands is improved, but the rigidity of each cover part deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The vehicle body cover is divided into multiple parts to meet different design demands and improve adaptability. Each cover part can be independently designed and manufactured, allowing flexibility in configuration while maintaining the ability to form a complete protective structure when assembled together.
Solution Approach 2:
The protector connects adjacent vehicle body cover parts at their outer edge portions, merging them into a unified structure. This combining action at the boundaries provides additional structural support and rigidity to the individual cover parts without requiring an increase in the number of coupling points.
2Stability of the object's composition
If the number of coupling points is increased, then the rigidity of the vehicle body cover parts is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The protector serves multiple functions simultaneously: it protects the outer edge portions from abrasion, connects adjacent cover parts together, and provides structural reinforcement. This multi-functionality allows the system to achieve rigidity without adding complex coupling structures or increasing the number of coupling points.
Solution Approach 2:
The protector acts as an intermediary element between adjacent vehicle body cover parts. Rather than directly coupling the cover parts together at multiple points, the protector mediates the connection at the outer edge portions, providing the necessary structural support and rigidity through this intermediate structure.
3Device complexity
If the outer edge portions are left uncoupled, then the device complexity is reduced, but vibration and abrasion between parts occur
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts and addresses the specific problem at the outer edge portions by providing dedicated protection and connection at these locations. Rather than implementing a complex overall coupling structure, the solution focuses on the critical outer edge areas where vibration and abrasion occur, removing the need for additional coupling points.
Solution Approach 2:
The protector converts the potentially harmful exposure of outer edge portions into a beneficial protective structure. By adding the protector at these locations, the same areas that would otherwise be vulnerable to vibration and abrasion become the points of connection and reinforcement, transforming the problem areas into solution points.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution effectively reduces vibration and noise between vehicle body cover parts, increases coupling strength, and prevents the protector from falling off, even with a small number of coupling points, thereby improving the rigidity and durability of the vehicle body cover.
Implementation Method 1
a protector (8) made of a rubber material and having a long shape; a first attachment portion (811) of the protector (8) is attached to an outer edge portion (731) of a vehicle body cover part (73)
Implementation Method 2
external configurations of the outer edge portions of the adjacent vehicle body cover parts are formed, at a connecting portion of the first and second attachment portions, in such a manner as to be depressed toward a boundary of the adjacent vehicle body cover parts
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AI summary
A motorcycle (1) comprising a vehicle body cover (7) which is composed of a plurality of vehicle body cover parts which are coupled with each other and a protector (8) for absorbing shock which is attached to outer edge portions of adjacent vehicle body cover parts (71, 72, 73) on an outer side of a vehicle body so as to straddle the outer edge portions of the adjacent vehicle body cover parts (71, 72, 73).