Air intake structure for vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9303603-B2
Application number	US-201514590884-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 6, 2015
Priority date	Jul 11, 2012
Publication date	Apr 5, 2016
Grant date	Apr 5, 2016

Abstract

A combustion engine mounted on a motorcycle includes an engine rotary shaft extending in a vehicle widthwise direction and a supercharger disposed rearwardly of a cylinder block. The combustion engine also includes an air intake duct through which an incoming wind flowing forwardly of a traveling direction with respect to the combustion engine is introduced into the supercharger. The air intake duct is fluid connected with an air intake port of the supercharger after having passed laterally of the combustion engine.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An air intake structure for a vehicle including an engine having an engine rotary shaft extending in a widthwise direction of a vehicle body, the engine comprises:
a crankcase to support the engine rotary shaft;
a cylinder block to protrude upwardly from the crankcase;
a cylinder head mounted on the cylinder block;
a supercharger disposed rearwardly of the cylinder block and operable to supply an intake air to the engine under pressure; and
an air in…

Assignees

• Kawasaki Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Naruoka Shohei
• Tanaka Yoshinobu

Classifications

• F02M35/162

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F02M35/10111

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F02B27/005

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• B62J37/00

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• F02B37/00

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic