US 12,187,181 B2
Vehicle
Takehiro Inoue, Shizuoka (JP); Atsushi Kamo, Shizuoka (JP); Kenichi Muramatsu, 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. 18/338,168.
Application 18/338,168 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/JP2021/047475, filed on Dec. 22, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-212432 (JP), filed on Dec. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0331141 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. B60Q 1/00 (2006.01); B60Q 1/14 (2006.01); B62J 6/022 (2020.01); F21V 8/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60Q 1/0011 (2013.01) [G02B 6/0006 (2013.01); B60Q 1/1415 (2013.01); B62J 6/022 (2020.02)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle that is a leaning vehicle or a straddled vehicle having a plurality of wheels, a fuel tank, a dummy tank, a foot board, and a seat, the vehicle comprising:
a vehicle body that supports the plurality of wheels;
a plurality of light-emitting parts, each configured to emit light in a light-emission manner so as to be visible from an outside of the vehicle;
a single light source including one or more laser beam source elements, the single light source being configured to output a laser beam to the plurality of light-emitting parts;
a fiber optic cable that constitutes at least a part of a laser beam path, which is a path for the laser beam to be transmitted from the single light source to the plurality of light-emitting parts, the fiber optic cable having at least one branch portion each branching the laser beam passing therethrough, the at least one branch portion including a most upstream branch portion that is positioned most upstream in a transmission direction of the laser beam;
a single shared laser driver board that has a single driver circuit that controls the one or more laser beam source elements; and
at least one laser light-emission-manner converter, each disposed in, or downstream of, the most upstream branch portion, to thereby cause each of the plurality of light-emitting parts downstream from said each light-emission-manner converter to change the light-emission manner thereof, wherein
either the at least one laser light-emission-manner converter or the single shared laser driver board is, or both are, at least partially disposed in an in-body covered region, which is disposed further downward than, and in a plan view of the vehicle overlaps, any of the fuel tank, the dummy tank, the foot board, and the seat.