Patent ID: 8678123
Filing Date: 2014-03-25
Classification: B62J,B62K

Abstract:
1. An electric vehicle comprising: a body frame supporting on a front portion thereof a steering device for a front wheel; a seat for a driver; a rear wheel disposed rearwardly of the seat, the seat and the rear wheel being mounted to rear portions of the body frame; a windshield covering a front side of the driver together with the steering device; a roof extending rearwardly from an upper end portion of the windshield to cover an upper side of the driver, the windshield and the roof being mounted to the body frame; an electric motor for driving the rear wheel; a battery for supplying the electric motor with electric power; wherein the body frame includes a main frame, a seat frame, a roof frame, and a shield support part wherein the main frame includes a head pipe supporting the steering device thereon; a battery case is continuously integral with a rear portion of the head pipe for housing the battery; a seat post is continuously integral with a rear portion of the battery case and rises upwardly with the seat frame being integrally connected to an upper end of the seat post for positioning the seat; the roof frame rises upwardly from a rear end of the seat frame to support a rear end of the roof; said shield support part being provided on the head pipe to project forward and, together with the windshield, to support a head lamp disposed on a front surface side of the windshield; and footrests protruding to left and right outer sides of the battery case are firmly attached to the battery case, wherein the roof frame includes two members of a roof post formed of a single pipe material connected to the seat frame and a roof support member composed of a casting connected to an upper end of the roof post, the roof support member being composed, in a loop form, of a lower edge portion with an arcuate shape with both left and right ends thereof warped upwardly and to a central portion of which an upper end of the seat post is connected, and an upper edge portion has an arcuate shape protuberant to the opposite side from the lower edge portion while interconnecting the left and right ends of the lower edge portion and to which a rear end portion of the roof is joined.