Patent ID: 8256563
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: B60K,B60Y

Abstract:
1. An all terrain vehicle comprising: a pair of right and left front wheels; at least a pair of right and left rear wheels; a vehicle body frame arranged to support the front wheels and the rear wheels and to extend in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, a direction forward in the longitudinal direction being towards a front of the vehicle and a direction rearward in the longitudinal direction being towards a rear of the vehicle; a pair of right and left first roof supports, each of the first roof supports including a pipe member extending in a substantially vertical direction of the vehicle, the first roof supports provided at both lateral sides of the vehicle body frame in a transverse direction of the vehicle, respectively; a pair of right and left second roof supports, each of the second roof supports including a pipe member extending in the substantially vertical direction of the vehicle, the second roof supports disposed rearward of the first roof supports in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, the second roof supports provided at both lateral sides of the vehicle body frame in the transverse direction of the vehicle, respectively; a pair of right and left roof members, the right roof member connecting an upper portion of the right first roof support and an upper portion of the right second roof support, the left roof member connecting an upper portion of the left first roof support and an upper portion of the left second roof support; a seat unit disposed forward of rear ends of the second roof supports in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle; a front panel disposed forward of the seat unit in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, the front panel separating a cabin space and a space positioned above the front wheels; an engine unit at least partially disposed under the seat unit, the engine unit including: a center console including an inner space, the center console disposed in a transverse center portion of the cabin space, the center console arranged to connect a space positioned forward of the front panel in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and a space positioned under the seat unit; an intake duct arranged to provide external air into an interior of the continuously variable transmission, the intake duct connected to an upper surface of the engine unit, the intake duct arranged to extend forward from the engine unit in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, the intake duct at least partially disposed in the inner space of the center console; and an exhaust duct arranged to discharge air from the interior of the continuously variable transmission to the outside of the vehicle, the exhaust duct connected to the engine unit, the exhaust duct arranged to extend rearward from the engine unit in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.