US 12,233,981 B2
Pannier and vehicle including the same
Hiroshi Tamura, Akashi (JP); Takeshi Kashihara, Akashi (JP); Kiyotaka Akagi, Akashi (JP); Yuki Kanemitsu, Akashi (JP); and Jaume Xicola Serrano, Mollet del Valle (ES)
Assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD., (JP)
Filed by KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD., Akashi (JP)
Filed on Jan. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/581,117.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-009895 (JP), filed on Jan. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0234668 A1, Jul. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. B62J 9/23 (2020.01); B62J 9/27 (2020.01)
CPC B62J 9/23 (2020.02) [B62J 9/27 (2020.02)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pannier for item storage to be attached to a vehicle, the pannier comprising:
a casing body which defines a storage space which receives an item and includes an opening through which the item is placed into and taken out from the storage space;
a lid which closes the opening of the casing body;
an attaching-detaching holder which removably attaches the casing body to the vehicle;
an opening-closing holder which attaches the lid to the casing body in an openable and closeable manner;
a cylinder which serves to lock both of the attaching-detaching holder and the opening-closing holder; and
a movable holder which is movable when the cylinder is unlocked,
wherein the cylinder is turned to a lock position, a pannier detaching position and a pannier opening position,
the opening-closing holder includes an opening prevention part which switches the lid between an unopenable-unclosable state and an openable-closable state,
the movable holder includes:
a first movable holder which can move between a position where the lid is openable and a position where the lid is unopenable; and
a second movable holder which can move between a position where the casing body is removable and a position where the casing body is unremovable,
when the cylinder is at the lock position, the second movable holder is retained by the cylinder at a position where the casing body is unremovable from the vehicle and the first movable holder is retained by the cylinder at a position where the lid is unopenable with respect to the casing body,
when the cylinder is at the pannier detaching position, the second movable holder is movable to an attachable-detachable position where the second movable holder allows the casing body to be attached to and detached from the vehicle,
when the cylinder is at the pannier opening position, the first movable holder is movable to an openable position where the first movable holder allows the lid to be opened with respect to the casing body,
the cylinder is arranged rearward of at least a portion of the attaching-detaching holder and on an inner side of the opening prevention part in a vehicle widthwise direction, and
a movement direction of the first movable holder is across a movement direction of the second movable holder.