US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Nov. 3 for "Saddled vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,695, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Saddled vehicle" was invented by Jun Nakano (Tokyo), Hiromasa Okada (Tokyo) and Seiichiro Eguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a saddled vehicle (1) including an air cleaner box (30) for introducing outside air into an intake path of a power unit (P), a frame member (20) constituting a vehicle body frame (F) penetrates through the air cleaner box (30). An air inlet (31) for introducing the outside air is formed in an outer side surface of the air cleaner box (30) in a vehicle width direction. The frame member (20) is disposed along an edge of the air inle...