Land vehicles – Tank or boiler – Saddle type; vehicle frame straddling
Reexamination Certificate
2009-01-12
2011-10-18
Hurley, Kevin (Department: 3611)
Land vehicles
Tank or boiler
Saddle type; vehicle frame straddling
C280S835000, C123S509000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08038172
ABSTRACT:
To provide a compact fuel tank including a fuel pump in accordance with one or more embodiments. For example in an embodiment, a motorcycle includes a tank rail forming an upper part of a body frame, a fuel tank having a pair of tank sections disposed across the tank rail in a vehicle width direction and mounted on and across the tank rail, and a fuel pump disposed in the fuel tank for supplying fuel to an engine, in which a mounting surface for the fuel pump is formed on a bottom of one of the pair of tank sections and the mounting surface is formed to be tilted in an in-and-out direction with respect to the vehicle width direction.
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Hurley Kevin
Keating & Bennett LLP
Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
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