Motor vehicles – Power – Having specific motor-to-body-frame relationship
Patent
1993-02-16
1993-11-02
Johnson, Brian
Motor vehicles
Power
Having specific motor-to-body-frame relationship
180292, 123195AC, B60K 504
Patent
active
052576744
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle and drive unit therefor including a transversely disposed engine located in an engine compartment. The engine is of the dry sump lubrication type and has a lubricant reservoir that extends between the cylinders and an air inlet opening to the engine compartment. The cylinders are inclined to the rear from a vertical plane at an acute angle and the engine crankshaft drives an output shaft that rotates in a plane disposed at an acute angle to the vertical and forwardly of the cylinder axis and at an acute angle to the cylinder axis. The oil scavenge and pressure pumps are driven from this shaft as are the front wheel axles which lie on the opposite side of the plane containing the cylinder axis from the output shaft axis.
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Kobayashi Manabu
Okui Kaoru
Beutler Ernest A.
Johnson Brian
Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
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