Patents Assigned to Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation
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Patent number: 7506712Abstract: An off-road vehicle includes a frame and a plurality of wheels. An engine powers the wheels. An air intake system supplies air to the engine. The air intake system has an air inlet through which ambient air enters the intake system. The air inlet is positioned higher than the wheels. An air intake duct extends rearward to the engine from the air inlet. At least a portion of the air intake duct is positioned lower than the tops of the wheels.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2004Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignees: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha, Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of AmericaInventors: Eiji Kato, Kazuhiko Izumi, Akira Inui, Norihiko Tanaka, Colby Nash
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Patent number: 7461851Abstract: A vehicle includes a wheel suspension device on a right side and a wheel suspension device on a left side, with the right and left side wheel suspension devices being connected to each other through a rear frame mounted on a body frame. The right and left side wheel suspension devices include a lower arm supported at an inner end of the rear frame so as to extend outward and so as to be pivotally movable in a vertical direction. The right and left side wheel suspension devices also include an upper arm connected to the outer end of the lower arm through a wheel-supporting knuckle and so as to extend outward from the knuckle. The wheel suspension devices are provided with a rear cushion unit connected at one end to the swinging side end of one of the lower and upper arm members. At least one of the inner end of the upper arm and the other end of the rear cushion unit is supported on the rear frame so as to be pivotally movable.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2005Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignees: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha, Yamaha Motor Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Takashi Yamamura, Katsuhisa Shimizu, Minoru Seto, Tomoaki Ooishi, Craig Smith
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Publication number: 20080265661Abstract: A driveshaft boot protector includes a curved main body, fastening members attached to the curved main body and extending from a main surface thereof, and wall members extending from the main surface of the main body. The fastening members are arranged to be attached to a knuckle assembly of a suspension system for a vehicle. The fastening members are either snap fit members which engage corresponding structures on the knuckle assembly or threaded fasteners. The driveshaft boot protector is removably attached to the knuckle assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2007Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: YAMAHA MOTOR MANUFACTURING CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventor: Bryan M. HARPER
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Patent number: 7438147Abstract: An off-road vehicle includes a frame and wheels. An engine of the vehicle has a crankshaft. A transmission transmits the rotation of the crankshaft to the wheels. A housing houses a transmission mechanism of the transmission. The housing has an air inlet duct through which ambient air enters the housing and an air outlet duct through which the air leaves the housing. The air inlet duct has an inlet opening. The outlet duct has an outlet opening. The inlet and outlet openings are positioned higher than the wheels.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2004Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignees: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha, Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of AmericaInventors: Eiji Kato, Rusty Hayes, Colby Nash, Joel Cheek
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Patent number: 7410019Abstract: An all terrain vehicle includes a body frame and a pair of brackets connected to the main frame. The all terrain vehicle also includes an air intake shroud, a pair of headlights, and an engine cooling apparatus, each of which is mounted directly to the pair of brackets.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2005Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of AmericaInventor: Keith Kotrla
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Patent number: 7380512Abstract: A watercraft includes a lower hull, a deck having an opening provided therein, a storage plate, and a storage space defined by a portion of the lower hull, a portion of the deck, and the storage plate. The storage plate has at least one folding line such that the storage plate can be inserted through the opening in the deck when the storage plate is folded along the at least one folding line, and such that the storage plate can be unfolded and installed inside of the hull to define the storage space.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2004Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of AmericaInventor: Michael Augustin Curtin
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Publication number: 20080017434Abstract: A vehicle includes a combined wet brake and rear gear assembly supported by a pair of frames. The combined wet brake and rear gear assembly includes a housing having at least one gear and a wet brake provided therein. An input shaft is connected to the gear and to the engine of the vehicle. The wet brake is located between one of the pairs of frames and the input shaft in the transverse direction of the vehicle in a top plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2006Publication date: January 24, 2008Applicant: YAMAHA MOTOR MANUFACTURING CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Bryan M. HARPER, Andrew METZGER, Bruce YOUNGGREN, Brian WOLF
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Patent number: 7210723Abstract: An article housing device for a small-sized vehicle allows an occupant to easily insert and remove an article while seated on a seat, and is capable of preventing a liquid spilled from a housing portion from dropping down to a floor on which the occupant places his/her foot. A dashboard includes a lateral extended portion and a protruding portion protruding rearward from the lateral extended portion, in which a plurality of housing portions allowing articles to inserted into and removed from above the housing portions are formed in the protruding portion, and at least two of the housing portions are aligned in the vehicle longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2005Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Assignee: Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of AmericaInventors: Yoshiharu Sugawara, Yoshitake Yamada
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Patent number: 7204733Abstract: A duct structure for a watercraft includes a flexible tube for providing an air intake for the watercraft and a flexible member for being disposed on an inner perimeter of a hole in a hull of the watercraft for holding the flexible tube. A convex portion of the flexible tube engages at least one concave portion of the flexible member around substantially the entire circumference of the flexible member, allowing for easy insertion and removal of the flexible tube from the flexible member.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2004Date of Patent: April 17, 2007Assignee: Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of AmericaInventors: Chester Colburn Nash, Michael Augustin Curtin
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Patent number: 7115008Abstract: A shift control mechanism of a small watercraft for selectively shifting between a forward, a neutral and a reverse drive mode includes a first mounting bracket, a second mounting bracket, and a shift control lever having a grip for operating the shift control lever and first and second sides. The shift control lever is disposed between the first and second mounting brackets. The shift control lever is rotatably connected between the first and second mounting brackets via at least two connecting members, the shift control lever is supported on each of the first and second sides thereof by respective ones of the first and second mounting brackets, and at least one of the first and second mounting brackets is mounted on a deck of the small watercraft.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2004Date of Patent: October 3, 2006Assignee: Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of AmericaInventor: Chester Colburn Nash
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Patent number: 7040245Abstract: A hinge assembly for a hatch cover of a watercraft includes a hinge arm having a substantially J-shaped configuration and made of an extruded material, a deck mounting bracket for connecting the hinge arm to a deck of the watercraft, a hatch cover mounting bracket for connecting the hinge arm to a hatch cover of the watercraft, a hinge shaft connecting the hinge arm to the deck mounting bracket, and at least one mounting member connecting the hinge arm to the hatch cover mounting bracket. The hinge arm has a width dimension extending in a longitudinal direction of the hinge shaft that is greater than a thickness dimension extending in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the hinge shaft.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2004Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of AmericaInventor: Chester Colburn Nash
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Patent number: 5031713Abstract: A mounting bracket arrangement for use in a golf cart so that an optional roof assembly may be readily added to the vehicle, either at the factory or later on in the field without the need for any special tools or equipment other than conventional hand tools. The support bracket in question underlies the cowl and is affixed at its lower ends to a rigid frame element. The opposite end is adapted to be joined to the roof support rails using bolts or other suitable fasteners extending through cylindrical tubular spacers located in the holes drilled through the thickness dimension of the vehicle's cowl.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1990Date of Patent: July 16, 1991Assignee: Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of AmericaInventor: James M. Criscuolo
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Patent number: D364590Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1994Date of Patent: November 28, 1995Assignee: Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of AmericaInventor: Izumi Yamashita