Carrier Blackman & Associates, P.C.
Vehicle including steps
A motorcycle includes a step operating mechanism that changes the position of pillion steps (passenger steps), and an electronic control unit carries out step inclining control to change the position of the pillion steps, so that footrest surfaces of the pillion steps may each become an inclined surface, in which the steps are pivotally raised such that a portion of the passenger step situated at the vehicle body outside is raised toward the vehicle body upper side relative to a portion of the passenger step situated at the vehicle body inside, in response to at least one of an acceleration operation, a deceleration operation, and a turn operation of the motorcycle. Such arrangement provides a vehicle that can induce an occupant to take a riding posture suitable for the traveling status of the vehicle.
Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
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G05D B62J
inventional inventional
Yotaro Akira Satoru Jun Naoto Akito Yasushi
Mori Kashiwagi Nojima Tanaka Yamagishi Hiramatsu Miyagi