Patent ID: 9016427
Filing Date: 2015-04-28
Classification: B60R,B62J,B62K

Abstract:
1. A small vehicle comprising: a vehicle frame; an internal combustion engine operatively attached to the vehicle frame; an exhaust system that extends downwardly from the internal combustion engine for routing exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine therethrough, the exhaust system comprising: a body cover that covers at least a lateral side of the internal combustion engine and constitutes part of an external face of the vehicle; and a heat shield having a face closely adjacent and substantially visually continuous to the body cover and covering a lateral side portion of the exhaust system, the heat shield and the body cover cooperating to configure at least part of the external face of the vehicle; and, wherein the heat shield is operatively attached to the catalytic converter, and is further supported by at least one of the upstream exhaust pipe and the downstream exhaust pipe.