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(12) PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATION (21) Application No.1187/CHE/2012 A
(19) INDIA
(22) Date of filing of Application :28/03/2012 (43) Publication Date : 21/06/2013
(54) Title of the invention : ELECTRIC THREE-WHEELED VEHICLE
(51) International classification :B60R (71)Name of Applicant :
(31) Priority Document No
:2011- 1)HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
079748 Address of Applicant :1-1, MINAMI-AOYAMA 2-
(32) Priority Date :31/03/2011 CHOME, MINATO-KU, TOKYO, 107-8556 Japan
(33) Name of priority country :Japan (72)Name of Inventor :
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1)KURAKAWA, YUKINORI
2)NAKAYAMA, MASARU
(87) International Publication No : NA 3)HASEGAWA, MAKOTO
(61) Patent of Addition to Application Number
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(57) Abstract :
To provide an electric three-wheeled vehicle in which a battery case located on a rear body can be small and the number of
components can be decreased. [Constitution] A rear body 12 includes rear body frames 19 attached in a vertically swingable
manner with respect to a body frame 2 and a chassis 17 attached to the rear body frames 19 by a pivot shaft 16 on a vehicle
forward side in a vertically swingable manner. At least front and rear batteries BF and BR are located on the rear body frames 19
and a motor M and rear wheels WR are supported on the chassis 17. The front and rear batteries BF and BR are housed in a
battery case 48 fixed on the rear body frames 19, a PDU 37 as a battery control device is located on a vehicle forward side of the
battery case 48. A contactor 18 having a function to open and close the connection between the front and rear batteries BF and BR
and the PDU 37 is located on a lateral face of the battery case 48.
No. of Pages : 42 No. of Claims : 11
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