Motorcycle

摘要

Vibration generators are provided on a vehicle to give vibration to the body of an occupant in response to outside information inputted from the outside of the vehicle, or vehicle information outputted from an in-vehicle system. The vibration generators are installed under the seating faces or inside the back of the occupant seats, or in the side wall surface of a fuel tank. The vibration generators are driven by information on predetermined contents among outside information obtained by two-way radio communication with another vehicle using radio communication equipment. The vibration generator provided in the occupant seats can be operated as speaker means producing deep bass sound in response to an audio signal of an in-vehicle audio unit. The resulting configuration enables information to be transmitted to the occupant of the vehicle by vibration given to his/her body, rather than being transmitted audibly or visually.

主权项

1. A motorcycle comprising:
a first vibration generator mounted on an upper right region of an upwardly facing surface of a seat bottom plate of an occupant seat, a second vibration generator mounted on an upper left region of the upwardly facing surface of the seat bottom plate of the occupant seat, the first and second vibration generators are directly mounted on the upwardly facing surface of the seat bottom plate and extend lengthwise in a front-to-rear direction along the seat bottom plate of the occupant seat, so that long sides of the first and second vibration generators extend parallel to each other, and driver means capable of selectively driving either one of, or both of, the first and second vibration generators in an upward direction in response to at least one of inputted outside information and vehicle information detected by an in-vehicle system to generate a vibration, wherein each of the first and second generators includes a housing with a body portion slidably supporting a plurality of magnetic movable members in a vertical direction, and a skirt portion extended downward from the body portion and connected to the seat bottom plate, wherein the body portion is provided with partially spherical flexible members made of an elastic material in positions corresponding to one or more of the movable members protruding upward through holes in the upper surface of the body portion, wherein the flexible members are made of a member different from the body portion of the housing and are adhered onto the body portion by an adhesive.