US 12,466,309 B2
Cornering light structure for saddle-ride type vehicle
Chiaki Yamamoto, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/211,745.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-099493 (JP), filed on Jun. 21, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0406198 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. B60Q 1/24 (2006.01); B60Q 1/00 (2006.01); B62J 45/415 (2020.01)
CPC B60Q 1/249 (2022.05) [B60Q 1/0023 (2013.01); B62J 45/4151 (2020.02)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cornering light structure for a saddle-ride type vehicle which is provided in the saddle-ride type vehicle that performs cornering by a vehicle body being banked laterally and which widens an illumination range in a direction in which the vehicle body is banked during the cornering, wherein
a front portion of the vehicle body of the saddle-ride type vehicle is covered with a front cowl,
the saddle-ride type vehicle has a headlight disposed at a lateral center of a front end portion of the front cowl,
a guard pipe is provided around the front cowl so as to be disposed along an outer surface of the front cowl,
a cornering light is configured as an integrated light unit including a bank angle detection means for detecting a bank angle of the vehicle body and a light body that illuminates a range in the direction in which the vehicle body is banked according to the bank angle detected by the bank angle detection means and is independent of the headlight,
the guard pipe is disposed below the headlight and is a frame member that is separately attached to the vehicle body,
the guard pipe includes a front pipe portion extending on a front side of the front cowl and a pair of left and right side pipe portions extending on left and right sides of the front cowl, and
the light unit is attached to the front pipe portion of the guard pipe from below.