Patent ID: 7669574
Filing Date: 2010-03-02
Classification: F01M,F02B

Abstract:
1. An accessories arrangement structure for an internal combustion engine for a motorcycle comprising: an oil cooler; an oil filter operatively connected to the oil cooler; and a balancer being mounted adjacent to the oil filter, said oil cooler, said oil filter and said balancer being in a lower part and in a front of a crankcase that journals a crankshaft directed in a vehicular width direction; wherein the oil cooler and the oil filter are respectively attached to the front in a vehicular traveling direction of the crankcase with the oil cooler and the oil filter projecting therefrom; and the balancer, the oil cooler and the oil filter are adjacent and are arranged abreast in parallel with the crankshaft in a front view of the vehicle wherein in a vehicular side view based upon the crankshaft, an oil cooler housing for housing the oil cooler and an oil filter housing for housing the oil filter are arranged wherein the housings are overlapped with the balancer, and further comprising a balancer lubricating oil communicating passage for communicating the oil cooler housing with a balancer chamber for housing the balancer, wherein the internal combustion engine is an in-line multi-cylinder internal combustion engine in which a plurality of cylinders are arranged in series, and wherein a straight line L