Patent ID: 7051708

Claim:
An accelerator opening degree detecting apparatus in a throttle control apparatus for a two-wheeled vehicle, comprising: a throttle body in which an intake passage passes through an inner portion thereof, and said intake passage is controlled so as to open and close by a throttle valve attached to a throttle valve shaft rotatably supported by the throttle body; a motor coupled to the throttle valve shaft via a power transmission gear; and an accelerator opening degree sensor detecting and outputting a target opening degree of the throttle valve in correspondence to an angle of rotation of an accelerator grip, wherein the acceleraior opening degree sensor is arranged at one end of a rotating shaft rotatably supported by the throttle body, a rotating drum is arranged at the other end, a rotating force in a return side direction of the accelerator grip is applied to said rotating shaft by a return spring, said rotating drum and the accelerator grip are coupled by a coupling member, and the accelerator grip and the rotating drum are synchronously rotated.