MUMBAI, India, April 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202514062599 A) filed by Honda Motor Co. Ltd., Tokyo, on July 1, 2025, for 'saddle-ride vehicle.'

Inventor(s) include Nagakubo, Akira.

The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "It is possible to reduce disturbance to an adjuster used in adjustment of tension of an endless member. A saddle-ride vehicle includes: a holder support portion (52) having a substantially cylindrical shape and provided at a distal end portion of a swing arm (16); an eccentric holder (54) rotatably housed inside the holder support portion (52) and provided with an axle hole (58) that supports an axle (15a) at a position eccentric with respect to a rotation center; an adjuster (106) that adjusts a rotational position of the eccentric holder (54) with respect to the holder support portion (52); a driven rotating member (64) that rotates integrally with a wheel (15); and an endless member (64a). The eccentric holder (54) is provided with an adjuster housing portion (100), the driven rotating member (64) is provided adjacent to the eccentric holder (54) on one side in an axle direction of the eccentric holder (54), and the adjuster housing portion (100) opens on the other side in an axle direction and closes on one side in the axle direction."

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