Patent ID: 7621566
Filing Date: 2009-11-24
Classification: B60T,B62L

Abstract:
1. A brake hose support structure for a vehicle for supporting brake hoses ranging from a master cylinder to right and left brake calipers for brakes of a front wheel of the vehicle, the vehicle having a front side, a rear side, a left side, and a right side, and having a front fender that extends in a lengthwise direction of the vehicle and that is disposed between first and second cases of a front fork, the brake hose support structure comprising: a first brake hose connected to said master cylinder of the vehicle; and second and third brake hoses connected respectively to the left and right brake calipers, wherein the first brake hose, the second brake hose, and the third brake hose are joined to each other on the front fender of the vehicle, the front fender having a surface portion facing upwardly and rearwardly and covering an upper and rear portion of the front wheel, and left and right side surface portions located respectively on left and right sides of the surface portion of the front fender, wherein a hose joint connecting said first, said second, and said third brake hose together is directly mounted on the right side surface portion of said front fender, and wherein said second brake hose has a first end connected to the hose joint directly mounted on the right side surface of the front fender, an intermediate part attached via a clamper to the left side surface portion of the front fender, wherein a section of the second brake hose between the hose joint and the clamper is an exposed bridging portion of the second brake hose that extends in a curved manner along the surface portion of the fender between the hose joint attached on the right side surface portion of the front fender and the clamper attached on the left side surface portion of said front fender, wherein the hose joint directly mounted on the right side surface portion of the front fender and the clamper directly mounted on the left side surface portion of the front fender are both arranged in positions that are behind the front fork of the vehicle, wherein the first brake hose extends downwardly from the master cylinder along an outer side of a right-hand upper case of the front fork, around a rear side of the right-hand upper case, and then extends forwardly and above an upper side of a bottom bridge that extends laterally between the right-hand upper case and a left-hand upper case, and wherein the first brake hose has an intermediate portion that is attached onto a front side of the bottom bridge by another clamper, so that the intermediate portion of the first brake hose in disposed on a right side of a head pipe, wherein another portion of the first brake hose extending below the another clamper on the bottom bridge curves downwardly and rearwardly between the right-hand upper case and the left-hand upper case of the front fork, and then curves downwardly and forwardly toward the vehicle front side and is connected to the hose joint behind a right-hand lower case of the front fork, the hose joint includes a hollow cylindrical joint main body, and a circumferential wall of the joint main body is integrally provided with a lobe-shaped projection for fixing the hose joint to the right side surface portion of the front fender, wherein the lobe-shaped projection extends in a direction toward the front side of the vehicle, and wherein when viewed in a front view, the third brake hose is completely hidden behind the right-hand upper case and a right-hand lower case of the front fork, wherein the circumferential wall of the joint main body is provided with first, second and third connection portions spaced from each other along a circumferential direction, and the first brake hose, the second brake hose, and third brake hose are connected to the first connection portion, the second connection portion, and the third connection portion, respectively.