Patent ID: 8726758
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: B60T,B62K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An arrangement structure of a parking brake lever in a vehicle, the vehicle comprising: a handle bar configured to steer a front wheel of the vehicle; a braking device configured to bring a vehicle wheel into a locked state or an unlocked state; a cable connected at one end thereof to the braking device; a pivotable parking brake lever having the other end of the cable connected thereto and being capable of operating the braking device into the locked state or the unlocked state; and a holder member fixed to the handle bar and supporting the parking brake lever while the parking brake lever is being pivoted, wherein: the parking brake lever is a single member which includes a single handle vertical arm portion formed integrally with the parking brake lever, the handle vertical arm portion being provided adjacent to the handle bar either forward or rearward thereof in an unlocked position in which the braking device is in the unlocked state, and a handle upper arm portion provided adjacent to and above the handle bar in the unlocked position in which the braking device is in the unlocked state; the arrangement structure further comprising: a rotating shaft of the parking brake lever is provided on the handle vertical arm portion and has an axis that is substantially parallel to a direction of a longitudinal axis of the handle bar, and in order to place the braking device into the locked state, the parking brake lever is rotated around the rotating shaft in an upward and rearward direction, wherein the handle vertical arm portion is provided on an underside thereof with an extending portion extending either rearward or forward toward the handle bar, and the rotating shaft of the parking brake lever is provided on the extending portion, wherein the vehicle includes an indicator configured to display the locked state of the braking device, and an indication switch configured to enable or disable the showing of the indicator, and the indication switch is arranged on the holder member adjacent to the rotating shaft of the parking brake lever, said handle vertical arm portion being provided on the extending portion thereof with an extending arm portion extending from the rotating shaft of the parking brake lever further rearward or forward toward the handle bar, and the other end of the cable being connected to the extending arm portion and a distal end of the extending arm portion is arranged so as to come into abutment with or move away from the indication switch in association with the rotation of the parking brake lever.