Patent ID: 11873769
Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
Field: Engines, pumps, turbines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F | IPC F

Claim 0:
1. An engine-equipped vehicle comprising: a two-cylinder engine; a gear transmission that shifts power from the two-cylinder engine by a shift operation; a centrifugal clutch arranged in a power transmission path from the two-cylinder engine to the gear transmission; and an electronic control device that controls an operation of the two-cylinder engine, wherein
the engine-equipped vehicle is configured so that the engine is started with a partial cylinder operation start where under control of the electronic control device, only a first cylinder is operated and an operation of a second cylinder is stopped, and
the centrifugal clutch is arranged at an end of a crankshaft on a first cylinder side, and a ring gear is arranged at an end of the crankshaft on a second cylinder side, the ring gear becoming engaged with a starter when the engine is started, so that with the partial cylinder operation start, a rotation torque of the first cylinder and the rotation torque of the ring gear are applied to opposite sides of the second cylinder.