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(12) PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATION (21) Application No.1190/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 :B60G (71)Name of Applicant :
(31) Priority Document No
:2011- 1)HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
080330 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)SHINDE, YASUO
2)HONDA, KOICHIRO
(87) International Publication No : NA 3)KURODA, KAZUNORI
(61) Patent of Addition to Application Number
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(57) Abstract :
To provide an electric three-wheeled vehicle in which the locations and arrangement of a battery and various electric components
are specially designed to enhance steerability, etc. without an increase in the weight of the vehicle. [Constitution] In an electric
three-wheeled vehicle 1 which runs by driving a pair of left and right rear wheels WR by the rotary driving power of a motor M
supplied with electric power from a battery 25 with a rear body 30 including the motor M and rear wheels WR attached at the
back of a body frame 2 in a vertically swingable and transversely tiltable manner, a battery box 25a for housing at least the battery
25 is supported by a battery box supporting frame 44 joined to the body frame 2 below a seat 21 of the electric three-wheeled
vehicle 1. A monitoring board 54 for monitoring the state of the battery 25 is located on the top of the battery 25 and a BMU 24
for collecting information from the monitoring board 54 and a contactor 23 for opening and closing the connection between the
battery 25 and a drive circuit for the motor M are housed in the battery box 25a and in front of the battery 25.
No. of Pages : 46 No. of Claims : 8
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