US 12,391,329 B2
Straddled vehicle
Tatsuya Tanaka, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHI, Shizuoka (JP)
Filed by YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Iwata (JP)
Filed on Jun. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/851,080.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-178260 (JP), filed on Oct. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0134397 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. B62K 11/00 (2006.01); B62J 1/08 (2006.01); B62J 25/04 (2020.01)
CPC B62K 11/00 (2013.01) [B62J 1/08 (2013.01); B62J 25/04 (2020.02)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A one person straddled vehicle comprising:
a body;
a front wheel at a front portion of the body;
a rear wheel at a rear portion of the body;
a seat on the body configured so that one person rides the straddled vehicle; and
a footrest in the body and including a first step that is substantially horizontal when the body is horizontal and a second step behind the first step and rising upward and rearward when the body is horizontal; wherein
when a first line segment connects a front end and a rear end of the second step in a side view of the straddled vehicle, and a perpendicular bisector of the first line segment is defined as an imaginary first reference line; a center of gravity of the straddled vehicle is ahead of the first reference line and a grounding point of the rear wheel is behind the first reference line in the side view when the first line segment is horizontal.