US 12,187,180 B2
Vehicle
Takehiro Inoue, Shizuoka (JP); Atsushi Kamo, Shizuoka (JP); Hiroaki Kurita, Shizuoka (JP); and Yoko Takagi, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Iwata (JP)
Filed by YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Iwata (JP)
Filed on Jun. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/338,138.
Application 18/338,138 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/JP2021/047476, filed on Dec. 22, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-212434 (JP), filed on Dec. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0331140 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. B60Q 1/00 (2006.01); B62J 1/18 (2006.01); B62J 6/015 (2020.01); B62J 43/30 (2020.01); F21V 8/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60Q 1/0011 (2013.01) [B60Q 1/0088 (2013.01); B62J 1/18 (2013.01); B62J 6/015 (2020.02); B62J 43/30 (2020.02); G02B 6/0006 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle that is a leaning vehicle or a straddled vehicle having a plurality of wheels, the vehicle comprising:
a vehicle body including a seat and a body cover, the seat being configured to have a rider seated thereon, the body cover being positioned to be visible in a side view of the vehicle, the vehicle body supporting the plurality of wheels;
a light source unit that emits a laser beam;
at least one light using device that each uses the laser beam supplied from the light source unit;
an optical fiber cable configured to guide the laser beam from the light source unit to the at least one light using device;
an electrical power supply unit;
a plurality of electrical units; and
an electrical cable including a trunk portion and a plurality of branch portions branching from the trunk portion, the trunk portion being electrically connected to the electrical power supply unit, the plurality of branch portions being electrically connected to the plurality of electrical units, respectively, wherein
the optical fiber cable has a supported portion and an upstream portion, the supported portion being arranged along, and supported by, the trunk portion of the electrical cable, the upstream portion connecting the light source unit and the supported portion without being supported by the trunk portion, and
the optical fiber cable is arranged such that both the supported portion and the upstream portion are partially disposed within an in-body covered region, the in-body covered region being at least one of
a first region that is, in a width direction of the vehicle, closer to a center of the vehicle than an outermost surface of the body cover is, the first region being inside the vehicle body and invisible from an outside of the vehicle, or
a second region that is positioned further downward than an uppermost portion of the seat in the side view of the vehicle, the second region being inside the vehicle body and invisible from the outside of the vehicle.